Taped and available online Thursday-Sunday until June 27, 2021
Written and programmed into United Players’ 61st season prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Glenn Waldron’s The Here and This and Now is timely. Act 1 is set in a pre-pandemic period; Act 2 is post-pandemic; and Act 3 is post post-pandemic.
Matt Loop as Niall Barnett in The Here and This and Now. Credit: Doug Williams
Firehall Arts Centre until May 29, 2021
Almost as disturbing as the exhibit is this note in the press release: “Although this exhibition is taking place and was created in Canada, there are at least a dozen artists living in our country who are self-censoring their work and themselves because of what is going on in China. For this reason, the artists in this project have chosen to use pseudonyms or remain anonymous.”
Streaming online until April 18, 2021
Silent Sky, written by Lauren Gunderson, falls into the category of ‘Who knew?’
Jenna Hill as Henrietta Leavitt in Silent Sky. Credit: Doug Williams
Streaming online from The Cultch until March 21, 2021
At times dark and somber, at others exuberant and joyful, Out Of Order offers you a seat you’ve never had before, at a circus the likes of which you’ve never seen before. It’s an intoxicating marriage of circus, theatre and film.
Anna Kichtchenko in Out Of Order. Credit: Sébastien Lozé
Streaming online from Studio 58 until March 7, 2021. (Extended until March 31, 2021)
Written by Canadian playwright Rosamund Small, TomorrowLove is made up of thirteen playlets ranging in length from fifteen minutes to an hour. Bound together by the theme of relationships, each short work introduces a not-yet-invented technology that will alter the relationship of the characters.
Ray Koh and Mary-Rose Cohen in Perfect. Set and costume design: Melicia Zaini. Lighting and projections: Sophie Tang
Credit: Emily Cooper
Live-streamed as part of Pi Theatre’s Provocateur Series. No more performances.
In a word, trippy, like a Physics 200 lecture on acid.
Live-streaming from The Cultch until February 24, 2021
As a 2019 Fringe play, Mx won the Cultchivating the Fringe Award and has gone on to be developed for the digital stage by the playwright, co-directors Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and Jiv Parasram as well as the video and tech team.
Lili Robinson as Max in Mx. Credit: Christache Ross
Live-streamed from Montreal on February 19, 2021
You will never see a Macbeth this imaginative again. Guaranteed. The New York Times review said, “It may break your heart in ways you don’t see coming.” Strangely true.
Jérémie Francoeur as Macbeth and Clara Prévost as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth Muet
Credit: Sophie Gagnon Bergeron
A digital radio play presented by the Arts Club until September 15, 2021
Playwright Bronwyn Carradine has a great ear for dialogue and that’s a good thing because Unexpecting was initially written for stage but ambushed by the pandemic.
Recorded at the 2019 Luminato Festival in Toronto and presented online by the Cultch. No more performances
I almost didn’t see this show because I thought it would be too depressing. While there’s not a lot of optimism in it, The Cave is aesthetically spectacular and it’s wonderful that singing animals, usually relegated to Theatre for Young Audiences, have moved to the adult stage where grownups might begin to listen.
The Cave cast and band. Credit: J Mar Electric