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…
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…
After working as a writer and stage manager on Larrikin Entertainment’s production of WYRD: a Musical Unfairytale, last year, Jenny Hamilton…
Please welcome … Jenny Hamilton! Read More »
When Discovery Day came around, I planned a special Mother-Son Day for my toddler and I since my husband had to go into work…
There is something really remarkable about playgrounds. Who among us doesn’t have core memories of playing…
Playground Musings Read More »
With COVID consuming a year of everyone’s lives, it seems almost for creatives to produce work that reflects the strangeness of these times
Alone Together at Wood Street Centre Read More »
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.
Every Brilliant Thing Read More »
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
Love, loss and creation Read More »
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.
Anger and innocence Read More »
Feel a strong connection to the Yukon and like variety and fun in your entertainment? Check out Nakai Theatre’s Pivot Festival 2020.
Spice up you January with some variety Read More »
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
Spirit of the times Read More »
[two_third] 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
Musical time travel Read More »
We gave a call-out for some readers to submit photos of their snowman-making exploits after the big snowfall in November.
Yukon See It Here: Snowman-making Read More »
Mary Sloan was only vaguely aware of the 2005 smash Broadway musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, when she learned that the Guild Theatre’s artistic director, Brian Fidler, had picked it as this year’s season finale.
Five years ago Hidden Memories started as a one-act play Lillian Nakamura Maguire drafted to improve her dialogue skills for a creative writing class. Now
Hidden Memories Revealed at Fringe Festival Read More »
Allow me to take you back in time to when the words of today had a great difference in meaning… Close your eyes… and go
Do You Remember When? Read More »
Gwaandak Theatre is known for producing high quality, thought provoking and original productions. A large portion of its mandate is to help cultivate Aboriginal and
Exploring Justice with Gwaandak Theatre Read More »
THEY MAKE A BALL ROUND AN’ THEY THROW IT AROUND. WHEN THEY PLAY FOR THE GREY CUP THEY KICK THE BALL WAY UP. THE BALL
Didee & Didoo: I’M LIKE A BALL Read More »
Whitehorse director and playwright Arlin McFarlane strives to captivate. She has developed a unique, one-actor play about our ability to change our lives around thanks
Yukoners have a hidden talent. Last August, over 800 people flocked to the territory’s first-ever comic convention, and many of them came in elaborate costumes
Whoever said learning can’t be fun has never been part of the Chickadees program in Whitehorse. Designed for toddlers aged between three and five, this
Tykes for Chickadees Read More »
I recently wrote an article about my perspective on the benefits of organized sports and activities. In that article I touched on my strong belief
Let Kids Have Time to be Kids Read More »
My three-year-old daughter Emily has a new BFF in our home. Her and I used to have tea parties, play dates with dolls, and trains
What are those? “Whiffle balls.” What are they for? “Tic-Tac-Toe.” Five-year-old Nash Battersby is about to school me in the art of winning prizes at
Fun Fair tips by Nash and Thayer Read More »
I understand him getting nostalgic about the slides and equipment. He still has the cast after he broke his arm there in elementary school.
Change is Always Challenging Read More »
It must be a magic trick, because Andy Massingham is going to hold the attention of a Yukon Arts Centre audience for one hour with
A lightbulb, a chair and a bowl Read More »
Bruce Horak no longer needs the catharsis that his play, This is Cancer?, has been for him. But other people do and, so, he will
Laughing at the unlaughable Read More »
“Go easy on the references to the Holocaust,” Jonathon Young says to me over the phone. “People will go into the theatre expecting it. “This
Memories, though invisible, are very real Read More »
Theatre isn’t just about the actors on stage. And while Moving Parts Theatre concentrates on methods and techniques for its players, it also provides community
One of many moving parts Read More »
It is in the fall, off-season for a ski chalet, yet there is still excitement. A woman has disappeared. She returns, but it is not
A case of questionable identity Read More »
Yes, they know it is cold in the Yukon. The cast of Studies in Motion has been checking out the temperatures here daily. Yet they
Stories of the scientific nude Read More »
There are actually two stage shows at the Guild Hall: Cabaret, the variety show and Cabaret, the play. The variety show is a blast with
Cabaret plods between great musical numbers Read More »
The Music Arts Drama students swirled in their dresses in the Wood Street Centre hallway and they laughed at the newness of it. Just a
Grease is the time, is the place, is the motion Read More »
“It is a space of no expectations,” says Carol Prieur, a dancer in the upcoming presentation, Orpheus and Eurydice. Since Yukon audiences probably remember the
A love that made the gods weep Read More »
This year, Nakai Theatre will not be producing any plays. David Skelton, Nakai’s artistic director, says the company will be concentrating, instead, on developing local
It’s a ‘building year’ for Nakai Read More »
In 1962, it was shocking and titillating. Though the Pulitzer Prize committee handed it a Pulitzer, it was revoked for language, for sexual situations. When
No one can shock with such delight Read More »
There are two types of people who read play reviews: those who want to see if the reviewer agrees with them and those who want
Theatre reviews go interactive Read More »
I was lucky enough to be able to see The Soul Menders twice. Because of travel plans, I had to miss opening night and reviewed
From dress rehearsal to final performance Read More »
Finders, keepers. Right? Well, adults will likely respond with, “It depends.” OK. This is something that was obviously discarded … but it was seven meticulously
Whose life is it anyway? Read More »
Sheldon Currie wrote a short story about a family in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, that echoed his message in the acclaimed Margaret’s Museum. Lauchie, Liza
A rollicking story of Cape Breton Read More »
”It’s a huge show,” Todd Duckworth the director tells me. Twenty people in the cast, four in the band. “When you see 20 people stretched
Just a big wacky musical about corruption Read More »
Clinton Walker, the director brought up from Toronto for The Laramie Project, has made me chili. Little triangles of toasted bread sit next to the
Walker’s Laramie Project shows the triumph of community Read More »
Everyone loves a “lovable rogue”. In the Guild Society’s musical comedy, The Man From the Capital, you get 20 rogues to pick from. The plot
Giant Rat finally treated as honoured citizen (psst … go see this musical) Read More »
Can one Holy Grail of a Bingo Game in Toronto be the answer to the dreams of seven women living on a reserve? Tomson Highway’s
The Trickster as Bingo Master Read More »
Gwaandak Theatre is putting on a reading series this summer featuring three plays written by First Nations playwrights, borrowing the skills of some local First
Aboriginal plays featured in Gwaandak’s Summer Reading Series Read More »
Then I was at the Big Band Dessert and Dance Saturday night, I saw a handsome man across the crowded room. Fat chance that I
Gay community sees hope in The Laramie Read More »
It happened on the dance floor November 1, 1985. “I don’t want to spoil the story of how we met,” Brooke Johnson says of her
A Memorable Friendship Read More »
How can one person transform herself into many people? How can one location turn into several without changing a thing? Go and see Café Daughter and you’ll
I went Saturday night to The River, a Nakai production, with Michael Greyeyes directing a play written by David Skelton, Judith Rudakoff and Joseph Tisiga.
Stories you’ve never heard, brilliantly told Read More »
Sherry MacDonald, the newest writer-in-residence at Dawson City’s Berton House, has a place secured in heaven. “There’s a special place in heaven for single moms
Playwright Sherry MacDonald shares her secrets to the creative process Read More »
Ten years after Louis Riel was convicted of high treason and hanged, a young Cree warrior shot a cow near Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, where the
A Tale in Two Tellings Read More »
The play is new. The book that inspired it is 142 years old. The song dates back to the Summer of Love. The kinky proclivity
Comedy Dominates in Venus Read More »
On June 11, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper rose in the House of Commons to issue a formal apology for Canada’s century-long Indian residential school
A Little Off the Top: Stereotypes and Beyond Read More »