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This interview has been edited for length and clarity. “On all those maps of Underground Railroad travel, they’d show the South, and the arrows go up and spread out… and they get to the border of Canada and stop. What happened after they fled?” In our interview, Cassel Miles, Co-Creator and performer of JOSIAH: The Show, posed and answered a question I have wondered about after years of history classes.  […]

Alas, the poor theatre-lover yet to witness Domino’s latest! An ode to the tremendous play often revered as the greatest ever written, Domino Theatre presents I Hate Hamlet, written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Craig Norton. Contrary to its title, the play is a spirited appreciation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece as well as a character study charting the difficulties of pursuing an acting career, the daunting nature of theatre, and […]

It is a dark and stormy night outside Roger Ackerton’s family home… and, as is custom on nights as dark and stormy as this one, Mr. Ackerton is dead before dawn. The Thousand Islands Playhouse closes out its summer lineup with a murder mystery spoof: Murder at Ackerton Manor. An original script by director Steven Gallagher, Murder at Ackerton Manor is a deliciously tasteless Agatha Christie parody play. Following Mr. […]

We all know how it is: watching the It Crowd dance the night away, witnessing a force both indifferent and judgemental. We’ve all felt the push and pull of desire to join them, to be them. On August 8th, for one night only,  the Kick & Push (K&P) Festival presented The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave and granted its attendees the opportunity to decide: will you dance, or will […]

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. “On all those maps of Underground Railroad travel, they’d show the South, and the arrows go up and spread out… and they get to the border of Canada and stop. What happened after they fled?” In our interview, Cassel Miles, Co-Creator and performer of JOSIAH: The Show, posed and answered a question I have wondered about after years of history classes.  […]

The Kingston Theatre Alliance acknowledges the author of this article was involved in this production and has personal relationships with some creatives mentioned in this article. These individuals did not contribute to the writing of this story nor its editorial process to maintain journalistic standards. As a recent graduate of the DAN School of Drama and Music, I feel confident stating there are few moments—if any—that its students are not […]

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, the moment my call with Ewerton Martins begins, we both find ourselves laughing.  Originally from Brazil, Martins is the creator and performer of El Diablo of the Cards. He is nothing but joyful as he greets me via video call from Manitoba, where he has just completed a sold-out run at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. A graduate of École […]

Matt Shepherd is the leading man and creative mind behind the Kingston Fringe Festival’s upcoming show, Let Us Sit In Goddamn Silence for One Hour. This past Friday I got to speak with him concerning the show’s origins, intentions, and lingering questions.  This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  Why Fringe? This feels like the kind of show you can only see at a fringe festival; did the […]