Kingston Theatre Alliance

To read this article in English, click here.  Daniele Bartolini, Christoph Ibrahim, et Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin forment l’équipe de création à l’origine de Le concierge, spectacle qui a inauguré le festival Kick & Push hier soir. Tracey Guptill, directrice artistique du Centre culturel Frontenac, s’est récemment entretenue avec eux pour discuter de théâtre immersif, de création in situ, et du pouvoir éphémère du silence. Cet entretien a été révisé pour en […]

Pour lire cet article en français, cliquez ici. Daniele Bartolini, Christoph Ibrahim, and Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin are the creative team behind Le Concierge, which opened the Kick & Push Festival last night. Tracey Guptill, the Artistic Director of Centre culturel Frontenac, sat down with them recently to chat about immersive theatre, site specific work, and the ephemeral power of silence.  This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  What a […]

Veuillez noter que cet article contient des spoilers pour Le concierge. J’ai eu la chance et le bonheur de vivre l’expérience immersive qu’est la production de Le concierge à deux reprises: lors de sa création à Toronto en mars 2023, puis à Ottawa en février 2024.  Je vous partage une texte que j’avais envoyé à Vincent Leblanc-Beaudouin suite à la représentation d’Ottawa. Salut Vincent, Je serais curieux de discuter avec […]

From Kingston originals to community classics, Domino Theatre’s Come Play by The Lake One-Act Festival is a reliable wellspring of satisfying theatre. The festival opened July 3rd with presentations of three Kingston original plays: Rulers Book by Gord Love, Ethically Sourced Chocolate in the Post Extinction Era by B.C. Gorrie, N. Neokleous, and Maleeka Thaker, and A Quarter Hour with Arsene Lupin Maurice Leblanc translated and adapted by Matthew Kane. […]

If you’re looking for a place to cool down in this heatwave, Thousand Islands Playhouse’s production of Grease is not the place to go. Taking to the stage as the first musical of their 45th season, Grease is a rock n’ rolling party full of excitement. A perfect choice for some mid-summer fun, the Playhouse’s performance of the classic feel-good musical is a hot hit.  Fresh off the rails of […]

Kingston’s Come Play by the Lake One Act Play Festival welcomes new and exciting theatre productions every year and this season, it sets the stage for the inaugural show of the up and coming Stone City Theatre Company (SCTC). They are presenting their one-act science fiction satire, Ethically Sourced Chocolate in the Post Extinction Era. I had the privilege of speaking to two of the leading creatives on this production, […]

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 looks for passionate individuals who are committed to questioning who and what criticism is FOR, all […]

Face cast in an almost permanent frown, Harriet Leary stumbles into her recently deceased mother’s lake house with the urgency of a to-do list that has nothing scratched off. She moves about the house with a general air of uptight worry. Not long after her follows the topsy turvy Juliet ‘Jules’ Leary, bustling through the house with an uproarious energy and apparent emotional indifference, quickly searching for a drink. Lastly […]

This past winter came early, hit hard, and—quite frankly—overstayed its welcome. It clung to Kingston’s limestone buildings with both hands before the sun managed to thaw the city. As the tulips gradually emerged and newborn goslings paddled around the inner harbor, Princess Street restaurants traded in their snow shovels and sidewalk salt for parasols and patios. Kingston welcomed this much-anticipated seasonal change the best way it knows how: with music.  […]

This year at Thousand Islands Playhouse, the Springer Theatre’s first show of the season is Sugar Road, written by Kristen Da Silva and directed by Sheila McCarthy. Like the formulaic Hallmark movies that are beloved around the holiday season, Sugar Road follows a structure that will be as familiar to most audiences as the back of their own hands: two sentimental protagonists, two comedic side characters, enough miscommunication to push […]

How do you review a dream? When you blearily blink back into wakefulness, is it better to critically engage with your slumbering mind through a psychoanalytical Freudian lens, or that of an English major attempting to establish a story structure? Perhaps a bit of both, with a healthy amount of neither.  James Joyce’s 1939 novel Finnegans Wake reads like a dream, radical and baffling to the point where nearly a […]

With Women of the Fur Trade, Thousand Islands Playhouse opens its 2026 season with a fine-tuned balance of biting satire and roaring comedy. Directed by Keith Barker alongside Apprentice Director Stephanie Fung and written by Frances Koncan, the play focuses on three women who sit trapped together in a frontier fort: Marie-Angelique (Danelle Charette), a Métis idealist who fangirls over Louis Riel; Cecilia (Alison Beckwith), a British settler concerned for […]