Artist — Kingston Theatre Alliance

A nearly 80-year feat—it’s the National Theatre School DramaFest. The long-standing festival brings high schools together from across their province in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, while out East, the four Atlantic provinces participate together. In Ontario’s DramaFest, District Festivals kick off the three tiers of showcases. Schools first perform their productions in their respective district where they may then be invited to a Regional Showcase. Two productions from each […]

When it comes to theatre, Felicia Holmes is up for anything. “I’m an actor, primarily, but I’m passionate about all aspects of theatre, and whenever I’m needed, I like to jump in. I went to the SLC [St. Lawrence College] music theatre program, and right from the very beginning, I was in the joint program with Queen’s. So two years at SLC, and then two years at Queen’s.”

Once upon a December—a few days before the opening of Blue Canoe Productions’ winter musical, Anastasia—I sat down with Remira Pryce to talk about community theatre and youth-led arts. It had been close to twelve months since Pryce stepped into her role as Arts Managing Director at the local youth-led theatre company, and she was eager to reflect on the past year and to chat about plans for the coming spring.

If you’ve been out walking along Princess, Brock, or Ontario Street in the past few months, you may have spotted some whimsical window displays. In February and March, Windows on Downtown Kingston featured work by Queen’s drama students, who have been studying the craft of bringing places to life in Clelia Scala’s prop design class this semester. 

Queen’s Theatre Troupe (QTT) is back at it again, this time with their first show of 2025. Bringing audiences into the fantastical dressing room of Sky Gilbert’s Drag Queens on Trial, QTT welcomes the show to Convocation Hall. Directed by Linden Imeson Jorna, the production bleeds comedy and melodrama, while also tackling some serious social issues. I was lucky enough to recently sit down with Jorna and chat about the […]

A new Kingston theatre company is taking on an old classic. To be exact, Two Rabbits One Hat is bringing Shakespeare’s Macbeth to Union Gallery. Playing the notorious title character is Jake Henderson, an actor, researcher, and fourth-year student at Queen’s University. Last week, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Henderson to speak all about the illustrious Macbeth.  This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  Getting […]

“You have to start with a crazy idea. You have to dream really, really big, and then you think about, oh, do I have the budget to do it? Do I have the time to do it? But still, you have to dream big. You have to be ambitious, and then you will actually put your effort into making those things happen, even if you don’t have the money, even if you don’t have the time—the end result will be so much better than if you just want to play it safe.”

Nic Lindegger is ready to leave the nest.
After working as Evalyn Parry’s assistant director on two shows in 2024—first Erin Shields’ Paradise Lost for the DAN School Drama Major, then the independent debut of Sophia Fabiilli’s Why It’s imPossible—Lindegger is spreading their wings as a solo director. When we spoke in December, they had just signed on to direct Victoria Marmulak’s new comedy, Robin and Magpie, which plays this weekend at Theological Hall.

How well do you know your loved ones? In Sharing Is Caring, a group of close friends finds themselves opening up in unexpected ways over the course of a night spent in an old, abandoned church. Written and produced by Grace Delamere, Sharing Is Caring is the fourth new work to be presented by Of The Sea Productions, an independent theatre production company founded in 2023.

In the middle of a prolific career as a dancer and Dora-nominated actor, Cassel Miles found himself losing his passion for performance. After a period of depression, which turned into a ten-year hiatus from professional theatre, he moved from Toronto to the Kingston area—where community connections and a long-awaited project rekindled his passion and brought him back to the stage. 

Student-run theatre strikes again! This January, Queen’s Musical Theatre (QMT) is bringing the renowned Sunday in the Park with George—music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by James Lapine—to Kingston. With over 100 folks involved, the organization has been working for many months on bringing this partially immersive (more on that later) musical to the stage. Director Rachel Rusonik was kind enough to sit down with me during the ever-busy […]

To call Nathan Zhe the co-producer and director of Yu Theatre Society’s Snow in Midsummer: The Silence feels like an oversimplification of his role. After all, he’s also the show’s technical director, sound designer, and live sound programmer, as well as one of two student playwrights who adapted the 12th-century Chinese script to create a non-verbal performance using shadows and movement.