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“It’s a Launching Point for So Many People”: Remira Pryce talks Blue Canoe

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  • Blue Canoe Productions
  • Interview
  • News

Once upon a December—a few days before the opening of Blue Canoe Productions’ winter musical, Anastasia—I sat down with Remira Pryce to talk about community theatre and youth-led arts. It had been close to twelve months since Pryce stepped into her role as Arts Managing Director at the local youth-led theatre company, and she was eager to reflect on the past year and to chat about plans for the coming spring.

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Big Performances are Big Fun in QMT’s ‘Heathers: The Musical’

  • Queen's Musical Theatre
  • Review

Queen’s Musical Theatre (QMT)’s Heathers: The Musical has all the makings of a killer production: biting wit, belty numbers, and a cast that brings the house down, but the Baby Grand just can’t contain this much teen angst.

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Despite Close Quarters, ‘Family Container’ Cannot Be Contained

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  • Theatre Kingston

Terra (Jarena Lee) has fallen on hard times. Her case worker, Liz (Sierra Zawacki), is asking her to leave her current home at a women’s abuse shelter to make room for new tenants. Meanwhile, her abusive ex (Jonathan Campbell) has just been released from prison, she is meeting with a problematic potential landlord (Matthew Davis), and she is single-handedly raising her five children—Mya (Yashia Allen), James (Iffy Maduabuchi), Anaella (Reese […]

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Kingston Meistersingers Put It All on the (Chorus) Line

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  • Review

Few musicals capture the highs and lows of being a performer quite like Michael Bennett’s A Chorus Line. Set during a grueling Broadway audition, the show follows a group of dancers fighting for a coveted spot in the titular chorus line. Instead of a typical audition, the dancers are pushed beyond their resumes, answering deeply personal questions about their lives, dreams, and struggles. Through monologues and musical numbers, each dancer […]

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“Class Struggle” Has a New Meaning in ‘Parent’s Night’

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  • Theatre Kingston

Nicole is overworked, underpaid, and at her wits end when she has to meet with two parents of students in her grade three class. Enter John, a worried upper middle class father recently separated from his wife and is concerned about his son’s grades, and Rosie, a mother working multiple jobs to support her husband who struggles with drug addiction and her daughter. Chaos quickly unfolds as the parents panic […]

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Interviews

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A Window into the World of Clelia Scala

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If you’ve been out walking along Princess, Brock, or Ontario Street in the past few months, you may have spotted some whimsical window displays. In February and March, Windows on Downtown Kingston featured work by Queen’s drama students, who have been studying the craft of bringing places to life in Clelia Scala’s prop design class this semester. 

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Queens at Queen’s: Putting Drag on Trial

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  • Queen's Theatre Troupe

Queen’s Theatre Troupe (QTT) is back at it again, this time with their first show of 2025. Bringing audiences into the fantastical dressing room of Sky Gilbert’s Drag Queens on Trial, QTT welcomes the show to Convocation Hall. Directed by Linden Imeson Jorna, the production bleeds comedy and melodrama, while also tackling some serious social issues. I was lucky enough to recently sit down with Jorna and chat about the […]

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Expect the Unexpected: Jake Henderson Talks ‘Macbeth’

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  • Two Rabbits One Hat

A new Kingston theatre company is taking on an old classic. To be exact, Two Rabbits One Hat is bringing Shakespeare’s Macbeth to Union Gallery. Playing the notorious title character is Jake Henderson, an actor, researcher, and fourth-year student at Queen’s University. Last week, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Henderson to speak all about the illustrious Macbeth.  This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  Getting […]

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“You Have To Start With A Crazy Idea”: Jerall Li Talks Lighting Design for ‘Love and Information’

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  • Queen's University

“You have to start with a crazy idea. You have to dream really, really big, and then you think about, oh, do I have the budget to do it? Do I have the time to do it? But still, you have to dream big. You have to be ambitious, and then you will actually put your effort into making those things happen, even if you don’t have the money, even if you don’t have the time—the end result will be so much better than if you just want to play it safe.”

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