Review — Kingston Theatre Alliance

If you haven’t already heard, it’s cool to be Asian. Crazy Rich Asians, featuring an exclusively Asian cast, is a blockbuster film that opens on August 15, and has already received a whopping 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, and Macklemore is making pho the trend for all of Seattle’s hip-hop scene and beyond. This second piece of information I got from creator Amanda Lin’s hilarious experimental dinner theatre piece titled Between […]

For a thespian, arguably one of the most exciting things about summertime is the opportunity to engage in some outdoor theatre in warm temperatures, hopefully under clear blue skies with a setting sun. Unfortunately, there are no such companies in Kingston that provide outdoor theatre (unlike Shakespeare in High Park in Toronto). Fortunately for us, however, the Kick & Push Festival arranged for Driftwood Theatre Company to engage audiences with […]

Blue Canoe’s production of Legally Blonde: The Musical is the second show of its summer season, and features a team comprised entirely of youth (and one dog).

Space Hippo, presented by Mochinosha & The Wishes Mystical Puppet Company, is an epic shadow puppet show that transcends borders both on earth and in space. Artists Daniel Wishes from Canada and Seri Yanai from Japan first met while studying puppetry in London. In a shadow puppet class, the two were tasked with creating solo shows—although they were each working on their own project, audiences couldn’t help but notice how […]

Waawaate Fobister gets straight to the point in his award-winning solo show ‘Agokwe’. There is an urgency to Agokwe—in the introduction, Nanabush states that “[Anishnaabe] culture is disappearing fast.” He doesn’t have time to let the audience draw their own conclusions.

On July 6 & 7, Kingston’s Domino Theatre assembled community theatregoers and lovers for back-to-back evenings of showcasing exclusively local content at their annual One-Act Play Festival. The winning play of the festival is granted the Ken Weston Award for Best Original Script, and the opportunity to represent Domino Theatre at the Eastern Ontario Drama League (EODL) One-Act Festival that is to occur this November 9-11 at Domino Theatre.

BFFs is a new 45-minute mini-musical by Bad Dress Productions that follows the reunion of 2 university friends in their university city of Montreal (they both went to McGill) after years of “adulting”, consequently not being able to see another for quite a long time. They are, however, superbly happy to see one another when they both arrive at the small Airbnb they rented for the weekend. And, judging by the contents of the luggage each character brings, the audience is able to discern what these characters might be like.

If you’re in search for a scary story to tell, looking at real life events may be a good place to start. Tyler Mathews is a Kingston playwright who stumbled upon the story of American serial killer Albert Fish (or The Boogeyman as he was sometimes known), and latched onto the story due to his interest in exploring the darkest human impulses.

As 1 of 7 shows part of The Kick & Push Festival (on from July 19 to August 12 in the Downtown Kingston Area), The Flick cast and crew were in tech mode when I went – in the Roxy Theatre of the Screening Room.

There’s something so cathartic about watching a play about revenge—maybe it’s something to do with how we want to believe the world is just, and that evil actions have consequences.

In Tabia Lau’s new Pride and Prejudice-inspired play, there are two possible endings. And after seeing it once, you’re going to want to watch it again

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