Michaela Tassone — Kingston Theatre Alliance

The Tom Hendry Awards began in 2002 with one award honouring the talents of a Canadian playwright. The program has grown exponentially in the last 23 years, adding awards such as the Theatre for Young Audiences award and the Carol Bolt Award for scripts that recently premiered. Now comprising eight annual awards, the Tom Hendry Awards offers a wide range of categories that recognize theatre pieces of various genres and […]

At the beginning of the 2025 Winter Term, I had a new year’s resolution: to break away from my comfort zone of performing on stage and finally explore the production side of theatre at Queen’s.  My path towards achieving this goal led me to Queen’s Theatre Troupe (QTT). Established in 2023 to help revive the campus’ student theatre community, which took a major hit in the aftermath of the pandemic, […]

In times of tragedy, music can be a source of comfort, which makes it all the more painful when grief stifles the melody. In my experience as a musician, heartbreak often makes it impossible to create those sounds which once brought comfort; your hands feel like weights hovering over piano keys, your voice feels trapped in the back of your throat, and the music you depended on is buried by […]

Shakespeare is regarded by many as the greatest dramatist in the history of the English language, with a body of works that have been continually performed and studied over 400 years after his death. Yet, they are frequently dreaded by high school students and performers alike for its language, which can be made to feel otherworldly to modern ears.  Kingston now has a local solution: Will O’Hare. An experienced theatre […]

Despite it being a Saturday, I woke up the morning of seeing Thousand Islands Playhouse’s production of 9 to 5 feeling much like the first verse of the titular song. Trying “to come to life,” with “a cup of ambition” in hand before the long day ahead. Needless to say, there is no better way to come back alive than to experience two and a half hours of peppy fun […]

By: Malobi Elueme Five years ago, in the height of the Coronavirus pandemic, the King’s Town Players closed their doors. There was no send-off, no emotional goodbyes or one last show due to the pandemic.  The past weekend, the King’s Town Players celebrated their 10-season anniversary in bold and hilarious fashion: with a brand new production presented by Scurra Sacra. The Complete Works of the King’s Town Players (abridged) is […]

A dark comedy, Morris Panych’s 7 Stories follows an unnamed protagonist, Man (Aaron Manier), as he prepares to jump from the seventh floor of his apartment building. However, his various eccentric neighbours interrupt him with stories from their own chaotic, comedic lives in ways that are often metatheatrical, leaving audiences to reconsider what we perceive as performance. Panych’s commentary is embedded into the humour of the play, in a way that may go undetected. It’s etched into each character’s incorporation of how they are perceived or the way they perceive others, tying into the ultimate idea that performances as we know them are more frequent than we may believe. 

Two farmers, a folksy artist, a collective theatre project, and a secret between friends kept for decades: what could go wrong? The Drawer Boy, an award-winning play by Brockville’s Michael Healey, tells the story of two old friends in 1972 rural Ontario. Angus (Tom Barnett) and Morgan (Patrick McManus) live and work alone on their farm, but their lives change when Miles (Stephen Jackman-Torkoff), a young actor from Toronto working […]