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
Online performances until February 14, 2021
Mary Anning (1799-1847). Ring any bells? Not likely. And why is that? After all, she is known as “the greatest fossilist the world ever knew”, according to the British Journal of the History of Science.
Hannah Pearson, Krista Skwarok and Isaac Li in She Sells Sea Shells. Credit: Nancy Caldwell
Digital stage recording available from the Surrey Civic Theatres until January 31, 2021
A is for Asha. B is for Brimful. C is for charming. A Brimful of Asha will give you a reason to smile.
Ravi Jain and his mother Asha Jain in A Brimful of Asha. Credit: Erin Brubacher
Streamed live from the York Theatre until December 27 (selected dates and times)
Here’s a Christmas present you can open right now! Theatre Replacement has moved back into the York Theatre with what has become a wildly popular Vancouver Christmas tradition presented by Theatre Replacement and The Cultch since 2013.
Shawn Macdonald, Dawn Petten and James Long in Panto Come Home! Credit: Emily Cooper
Online from Gateway Theatre December 18, 2020-January 1, 2021
If you’re already Christmassed out with TV Christmas specials, Gateway Theatre’s Home for the Holidays might provide a refreshing respite.
Lalainia Lindbjerg in Home for the Holidays
Online from December 8, 2020-January 3, 2021
This Arts Club production, which opened on the Newmont stage of the BMO Centre back in November, is now being streamed right into your living room in response to Dr. Henry’s regulations regarding gatherings.
Available online from Studio 58 until December 6, 2020
This Studio 58 group of young adults throws themselves into Theatre: The Play with gusto and I liked the sort of radio play/stage play hybrid with sound effects being made by the performers in full view: the sound of a helicopter, a ski doo racing across Antarctica, for example.
Artwork by Emily Cooper