Foreign and Familiar
Even if Canada has a higher volume of contemporary French plays, our reliance on old translations of classic texts is troubling.
International Spotlight: Rufus Norris
“We’re called the National Theatre, after all, because we have to reflect the nation we inhabit.”
The Flip Side: Brexit Sucks for the Arts, Too
It happened. The UK is leaving the EU. Britain has left the building.
The Flip Side: Cursed Children and Lucky Londoners
In one week, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will begin previews, enriching the lives of Harry Potter fans, human beings in general, and the English-language theatre canon.
The Flip Side: Women Artists Are Also Just Artists
It’s not everyday (yet) that women artists creating thought-provoking, innovative work are reported on merely for their work and not for the fact that they accomplished their work as females.
The Flip Side: Shakespeare Turns 400!
How many people have had such an impact? Michelangelo, whoever wrote the Kama Sutra, Jesus maybe… Overall, not many people reach the 400-year milestone.
The Flip Side: Hamilton, Jeff Daniels, and Women in Entertainment
Sometimes we forget that in other countries, creative visionaries are imagining, writing, and building wonderful worlds in theatres of their own.