Box to the Future
Old Stock: a Refugee Love Story
Remember Certs? Sporting dueling designations as a breath mint and a candy mint, their “two mints in one” slogan endured for decades. That old lin...
Tag: theatre
Astounding Feets
Island Fringe Festival 2021: Inner Urban Ecosystem/Kings and Queens
Dance shows are often part of the Island Fringe Festival slate, but this year they make up a whole third of the schedule: two of the six shows are dan...
Solo Flights
Island Fringe Festival 2021: Cowardice/Head War
The Island Fringe Festival typically includes solo productions, and this year it has two: one-woman show Head War (written and performed by poet Sadie...
Playing Dead
Island Fringe Festival 2021: Deenie’s Exit/Playground
Island Fringe Festival entries often go small, partly for reasons of logistics like financing and travel. This means many shows featuring one or two p...
Farmgate Theatre
Inaugural season for rural venue in Bonshaw
Farmgate Theatre will launch its inaugural season at Finally Farm in Bonshaw, with a special concert featuring Dave Gunning on September 10 and The Ro...
Theatre Performance Program
Havenwood Studios will offer a new Theatre Performance Program (TPP) in Charlottetown this fall. Established theatre professionals Lisa MacNeil and Kr...
Review: The Gin Game
“Oh boy, cards! The paper rectangles old people think are fun!” —Luz Noceda, The Owl House Often the odd man out in my extended family, I di...
Review: Off The Grid
As a COVID-haunted world emerges haltingly from hiding, mixed feelings loom: excitement over resumption of quasi-normal life, anxiety over the risks t...
Review: Dear Rita
Rita MacNeil’s music never drifted my way when I was a child. I didn’t know her, but was still foolish enough and insensitive enough to make the s...
Review: Pleasureville
Pleasureville is a contemporary theatre sit-com which examines gender identity and intersectional feminism. Cast with relatable characters, Leah Bowma...
Review: The Good Time Radio Variety Show
There was a time when radio was our source for virtually everything. From the 1920s through the 1950s we tuned into local radio stations by the millio...
Refugee love story
Ben Caplan stars in Hannah Moscovitch’s witty, dark folk tale
Making its Island premiere this summer is the internationally-acclaimed, OLD STOCK: A Refugee Love Story, presented by Nova Scotia’s 2b Theatre Comp...
Island Fringe Festival
Unconventional theatre and performances—July 28 to Aug 1
Entering its 10th year, Island Fringe Festival has become an Island staple, bringing innovative, accessible, unconventional shows to PEI every summer....
Midnight Baby
Justin Shaw’s comedy at Harmony House—June 25
Justin Shaw’s Midnight Baby will be on stage June 25 at Harmony House in Hunter River. The one-person comedy, written and performed by Island story...
Be happy for a while
Harmony House announces shows for summer season
The summer season at Harmony House in Hunter River will showcase a new concert, Inside American Pie, running alongside The Island Summer Review, as we...
Directors and leads
Roster announced for summer shows in North Rustico
Watermark Theatre has announced the directors and lead actors for their summer season in North Rustico. The Gin Game, winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Priz...
Between Breaths
Play inspired by the true story of Dr. Jon Lien
The Charlottetown Festival returns June 3 at Confederation Centre of the Arts with the Island premiere of Between Breaths, presented by Artistic Fraud...
Summer by the sea
Two theatre shows playing in Victoria this season
Victoria Playhouse in Victoria-by-the-sea will return this season with two funny and entertaining shows—Off The Grid by John Spurway and The Good Ti...
New AD at The Guild
Geordie Brown was recently appointed as the new Artistic Director (AD) of The Guild’s Summer Festival. Brown has a long list of credits as a perform...
Trois spectacle pour l’éte
French dinner theatre returns this summer
French-language dinner theatre will return to Mont-Carmel this summer thanks to Paul D. Gallant, the director of La Cuisine à Mémé dinner theatre s...
Summer Festival
The Guild | Shows announced for 2021 season in Charlottetown
Artistic Director Georgie Brown and CEO Alanna Jankov recently announced the lineup for The Guild Summer Festival in Charlottetown. Running from June ...
Charlottetown Festival
Confederation Centre of the Arts
The Charlottetown Festival returns with three musicals on the Mainstage at Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown: Dear Rita, Between Breat...
Review: Good Girl
Post Modern Cabaret
Good Girl Trailside Music Hall April 20 In two lavish sets of music and monologue, Melissa MacKenzie gives a courageous performance of her story ...
Kitbag Theatre Company
New PEI company makes “theatre you can carry with you”
PEI’s newest theatre company, Kitbag Theatre, is co-founded by Island theatre professionals Jacob Hemphill, Melissa MacKenzie and Rebecca Parent. Th...
Watermark season
Lineup for the summer features theatre, comedy and music
Watermark Theatre in North Rustico announced their 2021 summer season with a lineup that includes an outdoor performance of Mi’kmaq Legends by the M...
Community Theatre Fest
ACT’s annual presentation at The Fox and Crow—Apr 24
ACT’s annual Community Theatre Festival will return April 24 at UPEI’s The Fox and Crow in Charlottetown. The Festival will look a little differe...
Keeping Busy
When Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore played at Charlottetown’s Market Hall in 1885, nobody could have imagined that 136 years later it woul...
Tuesdays & Sundays
Millman-Tuplin tragedy gets the spotlight—Nov 11 to 15
Kitbag Theatre presents Tuesdays & Sundays, a play based on the true story of William Millman and Mary Tuplin, and the tragedy that shook the comm...
Tell Tale Harbour
The Charlottetown Festival Announces Development of New Musical with Alan Doyle
Confederation Centre CEO Steve Bellamy, Artistic Director Adam Brazier, GM of Theatre Dean Constable, and Canadian icon Alan Doyle, made a special ann...
Set builder
Garnett Gallant volunteers for ACT’s Noises Off
ACT will present the outrageous comedy Noises Off at Florence Simmons Performance Hall in April. The set for Noises Off, by Michael Frayn, is a majo...
Charlottetown Festival cast selections
Revealing players for 2020 season
Artistic Director Adam Brazier has revealed select casting for The 2020 Charlottetown Festival, including the leads for Anne of Green Gables—The Mus...
Gracie returns
Gracie Finley in The Trip to Bountiful and The Mousetrap at Watermark Theatre
Watermark Theatre’s Artistic Director Robert Tsonos and General Manager Andrea Surich have announced the 2020 Summer Season, featuring PEI’s Graci...
It’s the holidays
Family-friendly shows in December in Summerside
Harbourfront Theatre’s December line-up features shows for all ages. At the start of the month, Fandango Musical Players present Stephen Sondheim...
Review: Punch Up
Underground Comedy
PEI’s fringe theatre imports often consist primarily of whatever lands in the Island Fringe Festival each summer; but new local company Desert Islan...
Review: The Shame of the Meek
The Shame of the Meek is a deceptively simple show, yet also oddly complex. It’s simple structurally and conceptually – it’s a show about unwed ...
To the Power of Five
Play about PEI’s 1993 Women in Politics now online
The stage performance, To the Power of Five: 1993 PEI Women in Politics, can now be viewed online. The play, through story and song, depicts the one a...