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Poster for 'Providence'. The poster includes the title, dates, location, playwright, and director.

An Actor’s Train of Thought: Behind the Scenes of Providence

  • Artist
  • Kick & Push Festival
  • News

Presenting a play outdoors on a piece of history during the summer is not your typical show, and it certainly does not come with your typical rehearsal process. This year, The Kick & Push Festival is presenting Eye of the Dawn Collective’s production of Providence by Craig Walker; a production which I have been fortunate enough to take a part in. It celebrates the 150th anniversary of the opening the […]

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A Skirmish of Wits Makes a Visit to Kingston

  • Festival
  • Kick & Push Festival
  • Review
  • St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival

When I first arrived in Kingston in 2021, there was a severe lack of Shakespeare in the city, but over the past few years it has been refreshing to see numerous community and student groups bring some of his plays to life. The Domino Theatre with As You Like It, Two Rabbits One Hat with Macbeth, and Blue Canoe with Twelfth Night, to name a few. It is evident that […]

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A Labour of Love: Andrea Superstein on Art and Motherhood

  • Interview
  • Kick & Push Festival
  • TK Fringe

After first visiting Kingston on a grade five field trip, vocalist and 2025 JUNO nominee Andrea Superstein is returning, this time as a performer. She’s eager to be a part of a thriving theatre scene infused with energy and magic that happens over just ten days. As a part of the TK Fringe Festival, Superstein will perform Oh Mother F#@%*!, a show that explores the vulnerable highs and lows of […]

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Still Kicking, Still Pushing: Local Theatre Festival Launches its 11th Year

  • Festival
  • Kick & Push Festival
  • Review

If there’s one thing to learn from attending theatre events, it is that live theatre is unpredictable and that’s just part of its charm. The Kick & Push Festival kicked off its 11th year with a launch event at the amphitheater by Springer Market Square. Fittingly, the opening event reflected both the spirit and the name of the festival. (A quick history lesson: “Kick and Push” comes from a nickname […]

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From the Classroom to the Stage: How Two Sisters Wrote a Play

  • Interview
  • Kick & Push Festival
  • TK Fringe

There is something beautiful and a little magical about a family that creates together. The Socrates Sisters, Stephanie Rehm and Eleanor Daly, are writers, producers, and musical composers of a new play Detention, which will be premiering at the TK Fringe Festival this summer. For the longtime educators and first-time playwrights, the journey to this year’s Fringe Festival has been a full-on family affair. “We’re not a big troupe—it’s me, […]

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‘Madness Lies’ Reconsiders Wild and Whirling Words

  • Festival
  • Interview
  • TK Fringe

For me, one of the main draws to theatre is how we frequently come back to the same stories over and over again. Whether that be through a new production of an old script, or reimagining the same story anew, the past is always on stage to comment on the present. Chloë Whitehorn is one of Kington’s more prolific playwrights, and for this year’s Kingston Fringe Festival she is producing […]

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All Aboard the ‘Providence’ Express

  • Festival
  • Kick & Push Festival
  • Review

For those who have watched Back to the Future and thought, “I wish I could visit the past!” this is the show for you. Start by finding the entrance to the K&P Trail near Hagerman Avenue where you’ll be surrounded by the buzzing of cicadas and live fiddle tunes played by Jan Leclair on the accordion and Karma Tomm on the violin. You’ll know you’ve arrived when you see an […]

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Human or Computer?: An Interview with Yuriy Popov and Yana Menov

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

This might not be the first time on stage for Yuriv Popov and Yana Menov—the founder and creative director of Studio Reflection, respectively—but it is their first time performing a piece that is 100% theirs. After translating playwright Igor Yakimov’s The Turing Test from Russian to English, the two get to be their own directors, actors, and designers. With over 50 custom-made video clips, sound clips, and even perfectly timed […]

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Friends to Fringe: ‘48 North: A New Musical’

  • Festival
  • Interview
  • TK Fringe

Over the past few years of the Theatre Kingston Fringe Festival I have noticed a trend; there always seems to be one new musical brought to the festival that ends up being one of those shows I hear people discussing in the lobby for other performances at this unique and intimate Fringe. In 2023 it was Surely, Sherlock, last year it was The Cape As Red As Blood, and this […]

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‘Mary Poppins’ Takes Flight at Thousand Islands Playhouse

  • Review
  • Thousand Islands Playhouse

After being found causing havoc in the streets by a policeman, Jane and Michael Banks (Hannah Burns and Jackson Graham) have scared off yet another nanny. Just when their parents think they have lost all hope, Mary Poppins (Alicia Barban) appears to look after the mischievous duo. Through whimsy, magic, and spoonfuls of sugar, Mary helps the pair learn respect and to find wonder in the mundane, while also helping […]

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Poster for 'Love and Other Letters' in TK Fringe. The title of the show, location, dates, TK Fringe logo, and The Kick & Push Festival logo are on the poster. There is also a small image of two hands reaching out to the other in the centre of the poster.

Creativity Gone Wild: Behind the Scenes of ‘Love? and Other Letters’ 

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

Alina Siwy and Heiden Jacobi have the kind of creative chemistry that makes collaboration feel effortless. Siwy is currently studying Film at Queen’s with a specialization in Media and Performance Production at the Dan School of Drama and Music. She is also a writer and her newest project, Love? and Other Letters, explores the emotional complexities of loving someone else.  Jacobi is a drama major, actor, photographer, lighting designer, and […]

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Poster for 'Monks'. Poster has actors dressed in monk costumes and credits the show's creators. It has the words: 'An interactive clown show'

Get a Glimpse Behind the Habits of Monks

  • County Stage
  • Review

Residing in a hilltop Spanish Monastery, the monks Brother (Veronica Hortigüela) and Brother (Annie Luján) are brothers, and today they have guests for the first time in five years. On this special occasion they have big plans such as watching the donkey graze in the field and doing nothing… they just have to make sure to do so before the Abbot returns via the Glenora Ferry. I have ventured once […]

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