Ottawa Theatre Newsroom

From August 27th to 31st, 2025, the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival (FMG) is set to deliver five unforgettable nights of live performances featuring artists like Alessia Cara and TALK.

This May, local audiences will be treated to a rare and radiant evening of song and storytelling with A WHOLE NEW WORLD – THE MUSICAL MAGIC OF ALAN MENKEN.

Guild Festival Theatre has announced that The Veil by Keith Barker and Thomas Morgan Jones, developed through GFT's In Conversations With Classics Workshop, will premiere at Crow's Theatre as part of their 2025/2026 Season.

Broadway Across Canada has announced its 2025-26 lineup for Ottawa. The 5-show package includes Moulin Rouge! The Musical, & Juliet, Mamma Mia!, Mrs. Doubtfire and Clue.

What did our critic think of NOW AND THEN at Ottawa Little Theatre?

What did our critic think of TRIDENT MOON at National Arts Centre?

What did our critic think of TRIDENT MOON at National Arts Centre?

Guild Festival Theatre has announced key artists performing in its 2025 Season. Featuring an exciting season launch event, a world premiere inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, and more.

Guild Festival Theatre has announced key artists performing in its 2025 Season. Featuring an exciting season launch event, a world premiere inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, and more.

The opening scene of Kanata Theatre’s presentation of Laura Wade’s Home, I’m Darling introduces us to Judy (Katie Torresan), housewife extraordinaire. Judy, decked out in a frock and frilly apron waits patiently in her checker tiled kitchen for her husband Johnny (Phillip Merriman) to come home, so she can make him a cocktail before serving up a homemade dinner. Great Scott! We’ve landed in some sort of 1950s utopian version of British suburbia. Or have we? 

The opening scene of Kanata Theatre’s presentation of Laura Wade’s Home, I’m Darling introduces us to Judy (Katie Torresan), housewife extraordinaire. Judy, decked out in a frock and frilly apron waits patiently in her checker tiled kitchen for her husband Johnny (Phillip Merriman) to come home, so she can make him a cocktail before serving up a homemade dinner. Great Scott! We’ve landed in some sort of 1950s utopian version of British suburbia. Or have we? 

What did our critic think of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY at Kailash Mital Theatre?

Easy Street Productions will be presenting Boy Beatle in Ottawa at the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre. Learn more about the production coming this April and learn how to purchase tickets.

What did our critic think of SILENT SKY at The Gladstone Theatre?

What did our critic think of VIERGE at Great Canadian Theatre Company?

Great Canadian Theatre Company and CKCU-FM will present FemmeVox 8 - the 8th concert in this popular music series - this month. Learn more about the performance here!

Great Canadian Theatre Company will close its 24-25 50th Anniversary Season with Vierge - from award-winning Montreal playwright Rachel Mutombo.

This production highlights what Orpheus does well: quality vocals, simple, yet effective sets, and great chemistry among the cast that keeps the audience invested.

Tackling the stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption would be a daunting task for anyone, so it was with equal parts anticipation and apprehension that I approached the theatre for the opening night performance at Ottawa Little Theatre.

Fables is a co-production between the National Arts Centre and Montreal’s Compagnie Virginie Brunelle that is presented as a series of tableaux, where embattled women become larger than life in their grandeur, strength, and resilience.

Theatre Collingwood will present the 6th annual Girls Nite Out, an unforgettable comedy event celebrating women in honor of International Women’s Day. Taking place on March 7 & 8, 2025, this laughter-filled evening of camaraderie and empowerment will feature the all-female Girls Nite Out comedy troupe, headlined by the legendary Elvira Kurt.

Bear & Co. will present The Children at The Gladstone, a black comedy about hope and marriage in the face of disaster. Running February 19 (preview) – March 8.

Celebrate the season of love with a one-of-a-kind performance at Theatre Collingwood's LOVE CABARET, happening on Monday, February 10th at New Life Church in Collingwood.

​​​​​​​Giselle may be dubbed 'the ballerina's Hamlet' because of the complexity of the title role, but Tirion Law effortlessly tackles the challenges and uses them to showcase her talent as principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada.

NAC English Theatre presents the Stratford Festival’s production of Salesman in China, written by Canadian playwrights, Leanna Brodie and Jovanni Sy for two weeks only at the National Arts Centre. Arthur Miller’s acclaimed play, Death of a Salesman, was written in 1949. The story is about Willy Loman, a travelling salesman from Brooklyn, and his relationship with his two sons. Despite his optimism, Willy is struggling to live the American Dream: a comfortable existence with a steady income, a nice home, with a wife and kids who have been raised to be successful in their own right.