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Aaron Collier’s Frequencies creates a stunning combination of autobiography and techno music
- Festival
- FOLDA
- Review
- Spiderwebshow
Described as a part-techno concert and part autobiographical, the musical innovatively tells the entertaining and captivating story of Collier’s life, starting at the beginning of the universe.

Good Things To Do is technological poetry
- Festival
- FOLDA
- Review
- Spiderwebshow
Good Things To Do is an immersive virtual experience “blending dreamy sonic landscape, solitary physical environment and an unexpected use of technology” in order to explore the softness within ourselves the world demands we abandon. From its initial workshop implementing digital design into the live installation at foldA in 2018 to its adaptation for COVID-19 today, Good Things To Do’s full embrace of a computerized form is the very thing that potentiates the theatricality of dream logic.

Virtual Connectedness and Pandemic Dreaming at Cabin Fever PROTOTYPE
- Festival
- FOLDA
- Review
- Spiderwebshow
In the first few months of the pandemic, virtual activities were beyond popular. From Zoom drinks to Club Quarantine to the rise of TikTok, people around the globe were craving a sense of togetherness that the pandemic was devoid of. Cabin Fever PROTOTYPE seeks to address this phenomenon: can virtual events create a sense of togetherness and unity?

New Canadian Musical LANCASHIRE LASS Explores British History Through A Soaring Score
- Festival
- Queen's University
- Review
- Watershed Festival
like a surprising combination to some. On May 27, the Watershed Festival presented award-winning composer and DAN School of Drama and Music’s artist-in-residence Leslie Arden’s latest commission The Lancashire Lass, a full-length musical that will receive its premiere at next year’s festival.

Watershed’s New Works Showcase dives in head first
- Festival
- Queen's University
- Review
- Watershed Festival
The Watershed Festival continues to explore how and who exactly are the artists examining and developing music theatre as we know it. The New Works Showcase featured a series of upcoming projects at various stages of development from artists across the country, followed by a live Q & A with the creators.

Leading Ladies: Musique 3 Femmes at the Watershed Festival
- Festival
- Queen's University
- Review
- Watershed Festival
In a time of creative and collective upheaval, the inaugural Watershed Festival examines the integration of music, drama, dance, and design as musical theatre or opera, exploring those boundaries in order to revitalize the ways those artforms are practiced and understood.

Single Thread’s Collider: Immersive VR Suggests the Possibilities of Theatre
- Review
- Single Thread Theatre Co
In a moment where Zoom meetings, doom-scrolling, and our digital worlds seem repetitive as ever, Single Thread Theatre Company’s production of Collider presents a profoundly innovative way to bring digital theatre to Canadian audiences.

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SLC Digital Debris Fest 2: Digital Creativity in Its Finest Form
- Festival
- Review
- St. Lawrence College
Digital Debris Fest 2, a digital showcase of their year’s work. The digital event featured 15 different artistic iterations that seamlessly incorporated music, digital media, videography, calligraphy, revealing the true interdisciplinary talents of the students.

Queen’s Players makes Cultural Studies scholars S[CREAM]!
- Queen's Players
- Queen's University
- Review
Turn on any device, log onto any platform, and you will immediately feel how saturated digital content has become. It’s near impossible to escape the overwhelming monotony of endless scrolling, nostalgia culture, and algorithms predicting your tastes before you even develop them.

21 Questions With Paul Smith
- Artist
- Interview
If you’ve ever awkwardly stood by one of your friends as they catch up with someone you don’t know, you should keep reading. And if you don’t know Paul Smith, you definitely know someone who does.

Aitch Arr: Queen’s Students Present Innovative and Entertaining Opera Digitally
- Interview
- Queen's University
When we imagine opera, we think of majestic, luxurious theatres revolving around an artistic tradition that has spanned since the 16th Century. Rarely would we imagine opera to present itself as five-minute iterations presented digitally. Yet, on March 16th, the Musical Theatre Ensemble at Queen’s University, a course facilitated through the Dan School of Drama and Music, digitally presented Aitch Arr, a mini-opera created by Afarin Mansouri and Donna-Michelle St. […]