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Rosamund Small in Performance Review. iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: Outside the March’s Performance Review is claustrophobic for all the right reasons

It’s up close and personal, with lots of eye contact and sometimes only inches of distance between playwright-performer Rosamund Small and the audience.

By Gus Lederman / Mar 11, 2025
iPhoto caption: 'Revelations' photo by Erik Stoplman.

REVIEW: Ottawa Fringe’s 2025 undercurrents festival charts fresh theatrical frontiers

This year’s festival ran from February 6 to 15 and featured a wide variety of shows — from an interactive escape room scenario to an original musical about going to space. Here’s my take on the three I was able to catch.

By Lucy Baker / Feb 24, 2025
rave luminato iPhoto caption: Photo courtesy of Luminato.

REVIEW: R.A.V.E. thrusts audiences into a two-hour dance party

With a new artistic director in tow, 2024 seems like it might mark the beginning of a new era for Luminato. This year’s programming is a little less ambitious than...

By Aisling Murphy / Jun 20, 2024
Production photo of a Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney at Soulpepper Theatre. iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney ‘cuts to’ the core of the man behind the mouse

Soulpepper and Outside the March effectively drown Uncle Walt’s highly manicured public image in acetone, leaving the audience with a grotesque portrait that feels at once comically exaggerated and painfully accurate.

By Ryan Borochovitz / Apr 19, 2024