Harry Jordan: Butcher by Day, Playwright by Night

  • Artist
  • Domino Theatre
  • Interview
  • News

In 2014 after moving to their new location at 52 Church St, the Domino Theatre revived Come Play by the Lake, their annual festival showcasing one act plays put on by local talent. In this new era of the festival, no playwright has produced more shows than Harry Jordan, who will be participating once again this year with his new show: Acorns. I had the chance to speak with Jordan […]

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Performances

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News & Reviews

A Walk in the Park: SPAF 2025

  • Festival
  • Review
  • Skeleton Park Arts Festival

The best part about summertime in Kingston is there’s always something to do, and the worst part is there’s never enough time to do it all. Whether you were busy with the Princess Street Promenade or simply seeking shelter from the heatwave, you might have missed this year’s Skeleton Park Arts Festival (SPAF). If you weren’t able to make it out to McBurney Park this past weekend, we don’t want […]

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Job Posting: Part-Time Theatre Critic

  • Job Posting
  • News

Job Description The Kingston Theatre Alliance’s Performance Blog is a primary resource for audiences, artists, and theatre practitioners to engage in critical dialogues. Our platform consolidates events and news about arts workers and organizations in the Southeastern Ontario area in an accessible and accountable manner never seen before by the region. The writing team is looking for passionate individuals who are committed to questioning who and what criticism is FOR, […]

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jem rolls Is a Sensation, and Me? I Can’t Stop Listening

  • Kick & Push Festival
  • Review
  • TK Fringe

During my undergrad I took a Fringe theatre course in which one of our weekly topics was simply titled “jem rolls.” There is a good chance that anyone who frequents Fringe festivals will have met him, or at the very least have heard his name. This physical and poetic storyteller has travelled, as he puts it, “from concrete islands to concrete islands across this sea of green,” and landed in […]

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‘The MaryRobin Show’ Delivers Big Laughs and Bold Moves 

  • Deaf Spirit Theatre
  • FOLDA
  • Review

From the mischievous grins on the show’s poster to the “may not be suitable for children” warning, The MaryRobin Show makes its intentions very clear: this is going to be fun. And it is!  Created by Deaf artists Elizabeth Morris and Hayley Hudson, The MaryRobin Show is a lively combination of sketch comedy, visual storytelling, and improv. Morris and Hudson are longtime collaborators through Deaf Spirit Theatre, a company they […]

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Interviews

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Dial In: An Interview with Valerie Winslow

  • Artist
  • Domino Theatre
  • Interview

Checking items off a bucket list might be one of the most satisfying things in life, and as of July 5, 2025, writer, director, and performer Valerie Winslow is set to do just that. After years of being an audience member, sitting and enjoying shows from the sidelines, Winslow will finally live her dream. With months of writing and directing in anticipation, she will watch the premiere of her very […]

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Reading Between the Rhymes: An Interview with Performance Poet jem rolls

  • Artist
  • Interview
  • Kick & Push Festival
  • TK Fringe

In the uniquely Canadian wagon train that is the Canadian Fringe Festival, jem rolls is kicking off his tour in what might just be his favourite city on Earth: sunny, green Montréal. This one-of-a-kind high-energy English performance poet’s career began at the age of 31, when he semi-accidentally stumbled on stage at a ‘terrible’ open mic in North London and never stopped. Feeling liberated by the possibilities of spoken word […]

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Part of the poster for Skeleton Park Arts Festival. 'SPAF' appears in a cloud with three hands, each holding an item poke our of the cloud. Items are a megaphone, trumpet, and flower. The festival dates and "solstice weekend" is also included in the poster.

Great Things Come in Threes: A Look at SPAF’s Artists

  • Interview
  • Skeleton Park Arts Festival

Much like many arts fests around the world, Kingston’s Skeleton Park Arts Festival (SPAF) is jam-packed with different events and activities. Of course, SPAF brings its own unique flair, and this year’s feature on the festival showcases how. Our summer theatre critics have collaborated to bring you three mini-features on an artist from each day of SPAF, highlighting some of the talented individuals who can be seen around Skeleton Park […]

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“How to Duck and Weave and Bend Like the Willows”: DramaFest at the Thousand Islands Playhouse

  • Artist
  • DramaFest
  • Interview

A nearly 80-year feat—it’s the National Theatre School DramaFest. The long-standing festival brings high schools together from across their province in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, while out East, the four Atlantic provinces participate together. In Ontario’s DramaFest, District Festivals kick off the three tiers of showcases. Schools first perform their productions in their respective district where they may then be invited to a Regional Showcase. Two productions from each […]

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