Do you ever wish you could be in two places at once? Let your physical body do simple tasks while your brain is elsewhere tackling more pressing issues? That’s productivity at its finest! Lester Trips Theatre explores all this and more in their haunting new play Honey I’m Home. With AI development growing by the…
Travel back in time to the jazz age, where the gin flowed all night in the speakeasies, music can be found around every corner, and women have just been given the right to vote in Canada (well, some women). The world premiere of The Bee’s Knees, written and directed by Judy Reynolds, is an interesting…
Stuff is a great word; it can mean many different things, yet all of them are so clearly understood with just one word - stuff. And stuff, in all of its many forms, is what Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus are here to talk about in their new play Big Stuff. Produced in association with…
Do you ever feel stuck on the hamster wheel of life? What would you be willing to do to set yourself free? Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 classic explores cultural expectations for women through the eyes of a young woman who’s stifled by her life. This production, directed by Michelle Soicher, features exceptional design, and fantastic performances…
How many birds can you save before you decide to save yourself? Jamie, who has a job clear cutting Nova Scotia’s bountiful forests, is far more preoccupied with the damage he’s doing to the environment than the damage that’s occurring in his own life. Bone Cage, written by Catherine Banks and directed by Cassidy Sadler,…
Generosity. Noun. Readiness to give more of something, especially money, than is necessary or expected. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, that is. Timon is lauded as being the most generous man that anyone knows, but how far does his generosity get him? And if that generosity merely buys false friendships, is that generosity at…
“We share a specific kind of sadness, you and me.” Ryan’s words reverberate through the theatre for a moment after he’s uttered them, and make ripples throughout the rest of the play. Samuel D. Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of God is a powerful story of friendship, fatherhood, and finding your strength. Directed by…
Can you imagine waking up one morning and the rest of the world has disappeared? I certainly can, and frankly it’s my worst fear come to life. Elena Belyea’s I Don’t Even Miss You, directed by Emma Tibaldo, has Basil waking up one morning in that very situation. A multi-media masterpiece of survival, identity, and…
Some things are just too good to be true, like an abandoned house to live in when you can no longer afford your current apartment, or the water and power magically turning on in said house soon after you’ve moved in...a bit suspicious, isn’t it? Oliver desperately tries to push those suspicions away in Will…
It’s another election year in the United States, and as someone with a great many loved ones living south of the border, I have never felt so helpless for them. Yet there is a glimmer of hope which I’m holding on to, and What the Constitution Means to Me shares that sense of hope. In…
A View from the Box 