OUT North Turns 11
The 11th OUT North Queer Film and Arts Festival is happening April 15 to 19 and promises to be the most expansive iteration…
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Awaken Festival Returns
The Gwaandak Theatre will host the seventh annual edition of its Awaken Festival this April, with programming in Whitehorse and Dawson City.
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There lived a hobbit…
If you think you’ve also got the chops, YAC is holding auditions for each of these roles on April 17 and 18.
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This One is for the ‘birds’
On the weekend that the Guild and Gwaandak theatres were holding auditions for their co-production The Birds, by playwright Yvette Nolan…
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Nash the slash rises again!
This year’s Available Light Film Festival (ALFF) is absolutely packed, with over 50 films screening in Whitehorse…
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tracy and martina are comin’ north!
Lately, while walking my dog, I’ve been listening to the podcast Shootin’ the Shit, with Tracy and Martina…
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Frozen Comes to YAC
Some Yukoners may think Elsa, the magical princess who brings freezing blizzards, ice fog and mountains of snow…
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’Tis The Season For Dance
Uncover the Yukon dance season and history, celebrating the stunning performances amidst the beauty of northern lights.
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Pub Night At The Guild Hall
Brian Fidler talks with What’s Up Yukon about the Guild’s current play, The Weir – it’s cast, characters, atmosphere and spirit
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Alyssa Bunce Talks New Performance Piece – Our lady of the home
Alyssa talks with Manus about growing up in the Yukon, training in Montreal, and bringing her first independent production home to perform
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Anastasia — One For The Ages
Yukon Theatre for Young People is pleased to present this incredible production featuring a cast of YTYP’s senior cast and alumni Aug 12-15
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Bringing Puppetry To Osaka, Japan
The Open Pit Theatre will present two shows a day on the main stage of EXPO 2025’s Canadian Pavilion from Aug. 18 to 23 in Osaka, Japan
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The Musical Journey of A Lyricist & Melody-Maker
Over her musical career Kim Beggs has been nominated for music awards numerous times and is always writing and playing music whenever she can
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Behind The Curtain
Diamond Tooth Gerties isn’t merely a casino with shows, but a community institution that uses entertainment as its vehicle for giving back
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Turning 40?
What do you do when you’re about to turn 40 and you’re feeling “flat,” Josh Schroeder wondered. It’s a decade too early for a mid-life crisis.
It’s New, And It’s Mobile
A series of concerts will use YAC’s mobile stage in Whitehorse and Dawson this summer “Now we have a professional, turn-key stage that’s easy to
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It’s All About Character Development
YTYP values building character as highly as building sets. Yukon Theatre for Young People is a beacon for youth aspiring to trade the Northern Lights
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We Seek the Holy Grail!
Spamalot — Eric Idle’s musical adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail runs at the Guild Hall from March 25-30 “People should come and
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The Charms Of Chocolate
Yukoners are in for a treat – YTYP brings a new take on a famous story A little patience now, while the ingredients simmer. The
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Snowshoe Shufflers: Cutting the Rug, Yukon Style
The Snowshoe Shufflers keep the Yukon spirit alive, dancing in long johns and snowshoes for nearly 40 years!
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Lives Folding And Unfolding
The Guild Theatre’s Animals Out of Paper explores the delicate art of origami as a metaphor for grief and hope.
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Opera! The Ultimate Art Form
Opera! The Ultimate Art Form There’s a huge desire for arts and culture up in the Yukon and also they don’t have an official opera
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Getting Back to the Garden
“It’s like Cirque du Soleil, cabaret, & vaudeville. But in terms of scale, it’s nothing like Cirque du Soleil. We will recover financially,”
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WHAT’S ON AT THE GUILD?
Hurricane Diane, starting the Guild Theatre’s 24-25 season, focuses on gardener, Diane, whose true identity is Greek god, Dionysus.
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Everybody Hurts
You might not think listening to sad songs would make for a fun night out, but you’d be wrong, says Brian Quirt.
For the Love of Dance
My experience at Dance and the Child International (daCi)—a dance conference that was held this summer in Slovenia
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Augusto! Children’s Festival is Back
Bored during the summer? Look no further: Augusto! Children’s Festival will kick off on August 9th. The fifth annual Augusto! Children’s Festival…
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The Hottest Show In Town
Folks wanting to see Velvet Antler Productions shows need to act fast—really fast. Tickets usually sell out online before the dance…
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The Final Bow
Barbara Chamberlin is looking forward to moving on to new endeavours. Her upcoming retirement from the Whitehorse Community Choir…
New Age Attitudes
Nakai Theatre’s newest production, New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert originated as part of PushOFF (which has now become Hold On Let Go)…
A Flippin’ Farewell
Motus O is the only dance company that tours with its own defibrillator. That’s what James Croker says….
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Ride The Cyclone
On the snowiest day of March, I arrive at the Guild Hall to meet part of the talented team staging the Guild’s next production…
Please welcome … Jenny Hamilton!
After working as a writer and stage manager on Larrikin Entertainment’s production of WYRD: a Musical Unfairytale, last year, Jenny Hamilton…
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Mustard Is A Must-see!
Brian Fidler, artistic director for the Guild Hall Theatre, has a knack for choosing plays that everybody wants to be part of.
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A Rendezvous Drag Show
Punjabi-Canadian drag artist Jolene Queen Sloan misses the Yukon. It’s where she got her start in a Rendezvous competition….
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Broadway Comes to Whitehorse
The idea to stage a Yukon production of Be More Chill – The Broadway Musical as a whole started when director, producer, actor and co-founder…
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Drag Me North
We’ve all heard about the importance of eating local food, buying local products and supporting local businesses.
The Guild Hall 23 / 24 season
When the Guild Hall pivots from one show to the next, there’s often quite a bit of overlap. As artistic director Brian Fidler
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Where Laughter Boils Over
Steve McGovern started running a comedy series at the Boiler Room in April 2022. The comic had been performing in the Yukon since 2009…
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What’s On At The YAC?
What do The Comic Strippers, Moontricks, Open Pit Theatre’s Radio Silence and Great Lake Swimmers all have in common?
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We Don’t Even Know What We Don’t Know
Prophecy Fog is only a solo performance if you don’t consider the rocks to be performers. Jani Lauzon does.
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Wyrd: A Musical UnFairytale
The idea for Wyrd first came about after playwrights Katherine McCallum and Angela Drainville met for the first time in 2017.
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Sam McGee Connects The Yukon to B.C.
“Memorizing poetry is my daily training and therapy,” B.C. storyteller Andre Sutherland Begin said, adding he will be coming to the Yukon…
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The Wolves At The Guild
The play itself is written for female-identifying characters which was a huge draw for Pritchard, Clark and Sinclair…
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Puppet Show In The Window
Small audiences will delight in “Found in a Blizzard,” a short, family-friendly holiday puppet show performed in the window…
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Silent Film Night Alive To the Sounds of the Roaring 20s
The Old Fire Hall will be roaring on November 19, as The Open Pit Theatre launches its Silent Film Night fundraiser.
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Young Frankenstein At The Guild
Young Frankenstein, based on the book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, with music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, is coming to Whitehorse.
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Preparing for the Apocalypse (and being misunderstood): the Guild Hall’s ‘WROL’
WROL (Without Rule of Law) at the Guild is an all youth cast with no adult characters in this play about 7 girls preparing for the apocalypse
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Yukon Arts Centre 2022 Live Shows
You can tell the Yukon Arts Centre loves you because on Valentine’s Day, it announced ticket sales for eight new live shows. Those shows, all
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KDFN Citizen Kiri Geen builds a career in Hollywood North
From background extra to the big screen. KDFN Citizen Kiri Geen builds a career. Kwanlin Dün First Nation Citizen success stories.
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Nakai Theatre’s Pivot Festival 2022
Sometimes, you have to pivot! Nakai Theatre’s Pivot Festival 2022 will still take place this January, albeit with some modified programming
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Every January we’re Pivoting
Pivot Festival brings laughs sunshine, & much-needed break from the winter blues. 14th year of bringing the unexpected to Whitehorse.
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A dinner party: The Guild brings a new play to town for its first show this year
A Dinner Party at The Guild. “I love Whitehorse audiences, there’s an eagerness & openness to absurdity … and this play gets really weird.”
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The Resurrectionists
Larrikin Entertainment artistic executive producer Katherine McCallum is excited to be spearheading the dark comedy’s world premiere.
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Theatre in the Bush 2021
Ramshackle Theatre in the Bush “I’m already out in the yard,” Fidler says. “I’ve got my chainsaw out and I’m clearing the paths.”
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Welcome back… to the Round Back
With an improved ‘Round Back venue in place, the Guild Hall unveils a new series of performances. Music, theatre, comedy and more.
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Alone Together at Wood Street Centre
With COVID consuming a year of everyone’s lives, it seems almost for creatives to produce work that reflects the strangeness of these times
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Dreary and Izzy at the Guild
This May, Whitehorse’s Guild Hall is presenting Dreary and Izzy, a play by Tara Beagan which centres on a pair of sisters who have lost their parents in a car accident.
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How to pivot the Pivot Festival
2021 Pivot Festival brings Yukoners work from nationals and locals. Folk Lordz will participate online from wherever they are in Canada.
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Every Brilliant Thing
Every Brilliant Thing is a delightfully funny play about depression, but it’s not depressing. It’s also no surprise that the Guild theatre’s first indoor play of the season is about connection.
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Gwaandak Theatre’s The Born-Again Crow
Crow and Wolf, accustomed to several roles.“That’s how we’re used to working”.Indie theatre partners on Yukon production.
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Bringing live performance back to the Yukon
The Guild Hall is getting creative. Of course, that’s pretty standard for the Whitehorse theatre, but COVID-19 is forcing a different kind of creativity.
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The shows must go on!
Yukon theatre companies are finding creative ways to present work. Adapting shows and developing unique formats to fit with our new reality.
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Isolation, underwear fights and hanging around the house
How Isolation, underwear fights and hanging around the house inspiration for Theatre in the Bush. ‘That would make a great spot for a show.’”
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Puppets and pandemics
Really big puppets are coming to a park near you, but they’ll be keeping their distance.
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Reaching the World Through Dance
Before COVID-19 Gurdeep Pandher had never considered teaching an online class.“I had always believed that to be effective classes needed to be taught in-person,” he explained. Despite that hesitation Pandher, who teaches bhangra, decided to give the world of online teaching a try. He hosted his first online class in March.
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Awaken to spring with Gwandaak Theatre
With the arrival of spring, Gwaandak Theatre introduced the Awaken Festival for the first time ever! Gwaandak Theatre is the only Indigenous-centered theatre company in the Yukon, and has been empowering Indigenous and Northern voices since 2000.
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Love, loss and creation
You’re seated comfortably in the Yukon Arts Centre, absorbed in the live streaming of a multi-layered interpretation of a Gothic horror/sci-fi story you’ve known for
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A play on words
In January 2019, the United Nations (UN) declared 2019 to be the International Year of Indigenous Languages. This was meant to increase awareness and spur
Yukon’s got talent!
The 2020 Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous (YSR) Festival promises to be more inclusive than ever. The much-loved Superstar competition will be replaced by Hunt for a Headliner, open to all, including comedians, dancers, singers and anybody else with an entertaining skill!
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Anger and innocence
Claire Ness was only six (or maybe seven) when she first saw the dark Canadian comedy called The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine. Still, it left a lasting impression, in part, because that Nakai Theatre production in the early 1990s starred her father, Roy Ness, and fellow Whitehorse actor/musician Trish Barclay in the title roles.
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Yukon Famous
The Yukon Famous, otherwise known as Jason Westover, Patrick Keenan, Elissa Ciullo and Chris MacFarlane, plan to perform comedy in various styles and genres, including a mix of stand-up, sketch, improv, monologue, music, dance and media.
Spice up you January with some variety
Feel a strong connection to the Yukon and like variety and fun in your entertainment? Check out Nakai Theatre’s Pivot Festival 2020.
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Getting nutty
Go Nuts show created by the students of The Heart of Riverdale is an opportunity for the community to celebrate the successes of our students, which contributes to their self-confidence.
An appetite for stories
It is nice to get unconventional storytellers into the Pivot Festival and into unusual venues for performances.
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Shakespeare in hiding
The magic of Shakespeare at The Guild through the lens of Stoppard’s comedic genius and impactful stories.
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Come prepared to dance
Generally, when you decide to attend a dance performance, you can anticipate being treated to a single style of dance–ballet, highland, tap, contemporary, etc. The
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Ready, Set, Howl will visit Whitehorse for a show on Oct 10
Norman Mervyn Barrington-Foote is bringing his own unique combination of music, comedy and puppetry to Whitehorse for a Halloween-themed show on Oct. 10, 2019 at the Yukon Arts Centre. Music, costumes and Halloween are all part of Ready, Set, Howl.
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Subversive and sexy
After an absence of two decades, eight low-rent vaudevillians trying to evade the secret police in their homeland have returned to Whitehorse. The Guild Theatre opens
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North of sexy
Skagway’s Nude and Rude Revue is once again visiting Whitehorse to share its specialized mx of performance art, including variety, vaudeville, burlesque, song and dance.
Another opening, et cetera
Ken is back producing a performance on the stage of big dreams Six hours after I email this column to Danny Macdonald, and long before
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It may be ugly, but someday I might call it home
I recently wrote about my new vocation as a DIY coffin maker. OK, strictly speaking it’s not a coffin. It’s a casket. On a draped
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Summer in Geezerville is anything but dead
Ken goes on a mission to find some beat up wood panel on the cheap for art Things sometimes turn on a dime. Recently, with
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It’s a Cabin of Curiosities
Vaudeville has made a comeback in Dawson City. Cabin of Curiosities, a play which premiered last year on a limited run at the historic Palace
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Step outside your comfort zone and into their world
Out Innerspace Dance Theatre will present Bygones at the Yukon Arts Centre on July 9 at 7 p.m. Created and performed by David Raymond
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Friends of the Palace Grand plan 21 shows this summer
The Friends of the Palace Grand (FotPG) has existed for a number of years. Originally under the umbrella of the Dawson City Arts Society (DCAS),
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Dance dance revolution
Get ready to cut a rug in Haines Junction You don’t have to be part of a dance group to be a dancer. According to
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Read all about it
Disney’s Newsies, put on by Yukon Theatre for Young People (YTYP), will premiere on June 14 at the Yukon Arts Centre. The cast for the Tony-winning
A solo show
If you’ve never heard of Paul Chartier, it’s with good reason. History doesn’t usually remember what might have been. “If he had succeeded in what
Spirit of the times
The German term zeitgeist is generally rendered in English as the spirit of a given time, as shown in prevailing thought or customs. (Think, perhaps, how
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Musical time travel
With the stage still in darkness, a disembodied voice expresses the speaker’s dislike for plays that require theatre-goers to interact with performers who break the
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Things that go bump in the night
Renowned dancer Peggy Baker brings her new show to Whitehorse on March 13 Relieved – that’s how Peggy Baker feels to be bringing her latest
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All work and a play
On a Thursday afternoon at Takhini Elementary School, a class played dodgeball in the gym, seemingly unaware that, on the other side of the heavy
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The anarchy element
At the age of nine, Tomáš Kubínek gave his first performance before a group of experienced magicians. Four years later, he had an agent. He would soon make his circus debut with a duo of Brazilian clowns.
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Comedians Becky Johnson and Kayla Lorette find the laughs in suffering and the unexpected
Comedians Becky Johnson and Kayla Lorette have worked with Second City, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and Schitt’s Creek. Now, they take on the Yukon.
Unexpected Paths
When the Guild Theatre’s artistic director, Brian Fidler, invited her to direct Durang’s wildly successful 2012 comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, McLean leapt at the opportunity.
Shine those Shoes
At this year’s Ride For Dad, Callieou will share the three-night bill with the bilingual Seguin, one of Canada’s hottest comedy commodities.
At least I’m not a giraffe’s backside this time
The time-honoured English tradition of the Christmas pantomime (known affectionately as just “panto”) was not part of my childhood. For the benefit of those of us who weren’t weaned on this particular theatrical fare, it’s important to bear in mind various traditions, tropes, and stereotypes of an English-style panto.
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From the Punjab to the Yukon
Gurdeep Pandher was one of the first people I met when I moved to the Yukon. I walked into a Scottish country barn dance at the Old Fire Hall, in Whitehorse, and here was a guy in the remote North in his pagri, at an event, sitting and absorbing the dances and people.
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Searching for a way out
Genevieve Fleming is counting on Whitehorse audiences to take in the upcoming Guild Theatre production, even if just to indulge in some cold-weather Schadenfreude. In
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