New student-run theatre company arrives at Queen’s
In 2021, Queen’s formed student-run theatre company The Dan Exposition Series (DES), supported by the Dan School of Drama and Music.
Serena Ferzli, ArtSci ’22 and creative director of DES, spoke wi…
Dan Studio Series offers a great collection of plays
I have always found drama and stage acting fascinating. While I don’t have the bionic ability to act in a live performance, watching plays allows me to truly feel the emotions of the characters whi…
‘Hadestown’ is well worth the trip
Hadestown is a musical that first took Broadway by storm in 2019.
All the songs featured in Hadestown were adapted from the concept album of the same name, written and performed by singer-songwr…
‘Tin-ja’ delivers a feel-good experience for theatre lovers of all ages
Kingston’s Kick and Push Festival featured a heartwarming interactive installation called Tin-jathat ran in City Park from Aug. 25 to 28.
Written and directed by Brendon Allen, Tin-ja centers aroun…
Broadway play comes to Kingston for one night only
In Kingston for one night only, Kinky Boots asked viewers to consider the question: What makes a man?
On April 24, the Broadway production of Kinky Boots came to Kingston on their North American to…
The King’s Town Players present The Great Gatsby
In their debut performance of The Great Gatsby at the Domino Theatre on March 27, the King’s Town players took the audience back to prohibition, flapper glamour, and the roaring twenties.
For fans…
Kinky Boots to stop in Kingston on North American tour
This April, Kingston theatre fans get the rare opportunity to see a Broadway production, without even leaving the city.
On April 24 Kinky Boots is coming to Kingston’s Leon’s Centre for one night …
Minority Report spotlights marginalized students
Minority Report had audience members buckling with laughter at one moment and snapping their fingers in solidarity the next at the Rotunda Theatre on Wednesday night.
Produced by The Imaginary Thea…
Queen’s debut for Rhinoceros in Love this week
For the cast of Rhinoceros In Love, performing their newest production is more than an extra-curricular activity—it’s a representation of their wider cultural heritage at Queen’s.
After noticing a …
Studio 013 brings Shakespeare’s most gruesome play to life
Studio 013’s production of Shakespeare’s most violent play relishes in all the gory details.
Titus Andronicus is running at The Box in the H’art Centre from March 7 to 9. Centered around Roman gen…
Vogue Charity Fashion Show tells a brief history of time
Using fashion to tell the history of humanity seems unorthodox, but it made perfect sense in this year’s Vogue Charity Fashion Show: Tempora Mantura (VCFS).
The 22nd annual show, running from Feb. …
The Wolves challenges stereotypes of women in sports
The Wolves is a sensitive, relatable invitation for every woman to see themselves on stage.
Dedicated to the late Queen’s Professor Kim Renders, who passed away last summer, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wo…
Education production aims to Get Schooled
Teachers will break into song and dance Thursday and Friday when the faculty of education stages an original production.
What the PRAC: Get Schooled! will be playing at Duncan McArthur Hall and wil…
Learning What a Young Wife Ought to Know
The story of a young woman struggling to defend her reproductive choice in 1920s Ottawa might not strike audiences as a hilarious, heartwarming romance. However, audiences would be proven wrong by …
Commentary:What’s lost in documentary theatre
It’s a truism that people seek out ideas to confirm their biases.
Consequently, in an era of fake-news and ‘alternative facts,’ the realm of theatre might seem an unusual place to turn for guidanc…
If/Then to take the road less traveled at Rotunda Theatre
In its opening song, Queen’s MusicalTheatre’s (QMT) winter production,If/Then poses the constant question: what if?
Running from Nov. 29th to Dec. 8th in the Rotunda Theatre, the show follows Eliza…
Pages woos the Isabel
For many, the most frightening thing about university is graduating.
However, Queen’s Students on Broadway’s musical Pages refused to be afraid. The show—which ran from Nov. 15 to 17 at the Isabel…
Queen’s Varsity Improv is no joke
A clown, a horse girl, and Facebook meme poster David Vassos walk into a party.
It’s the unlikely beginning of Queen’s Varsity Improv’s latest show, which held its first of four performances of the…
Judge and Jury ends sentence at Brooklyn
In Judge and Jury, the higest court in the land was far from sober.
This was on display when Living in Technicolour presented the final installment of their infamous Judge and Jury production at t…
Dan School production Birds takes flight at Theological Hall
Two-thousand years later, Birds still has something to sing about.
It was on display Wednesday night. “A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word!” sang the Dan School of Drama and Music’s cast of Bir…
Interactive play Far From the Heart confronts sexual violence
This story reviews theatrical representations of sexual assault and may be triggering for some readers.
Immersion theatre troupe Sheatre wants you to criticize their performance.
On Nov. 2, the tr…
Stage thriller Butcher delves into the aftermath of tragedy
In his new stage thriller Butcher, playwright Nicolas Billon asks how we can balance peace and justice.
Butcher, running from Oct. 26 to Nov. 11 at the Grand Theatre, follows a police officer, a la…
Script falls short in The Mouse House
The Domino Theatre’s production of The Mouse House proves community theatre is alive, but not always good.
From Oct. 18 to Nov. 3, in The Davies Foundation Auditorium, Domino Theatre presented Rob…
Albert Schultz’s return a loss for Canadian theatre
In January of 2018, Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente proclaimed Albert Schultz will “never work in this town again—or, for that matter, in any theatre anywhere in Canada.”
Wente’s prediction…
Play relives Vimy Ridge
In Vimy, the character can’t forget the World War I battle they survived—their haunted memories are “all stuck in here.”
Running from Sept. 26-29 and Oct. 3-6, Vimy is The King’s Town Players’ newe…
In hysterics at feminist comedy night
In most pop culture, feminist comedy is a punch line.
However, on Saturday night, The Hysterics Collective challenged that belief with their Hopes & Dreams comedy show at The Grad Club.
Part of…
Inclusion through comedy: Existere welcomes frosh with sex jokes
Sexism, peer pressure, casual sex and mental health—no topic is off limits for Existere’s 24th annual Frosh Week performance.
First year students gathered in Grant Hall on Sept. 2 to watch the ori…
The Queen’s roots of Carly Heffernan’s comedy
Carly Heffernan didn’t realize how much she loved comedy until she saw Queen’s Players.
Today, Heffernan is big in the Toronto comedy scene. An award-winning alumnus of Second City Toronto, she is…
