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October 2019
The Election by Yolanda Bonnell & Natasha Greenblatt
Following the wildly successful run of The Public Servant, Common Boots Theatre delivers a provocative and hilarious investigation of how Canadians engage in democracy. In 2015, a group of theatre makers signed up with the Canadian Federal Election as volunteers…
Find out more »Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story by Hannah Moscovitch, Christian Barry and Ben Caplan
Part high-energy musical and part darkly funny folktale, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story stars genre-bending sensation Ben Caplan, one of Canada’s most riveting and compelling performers. Written by Ottawa’s own Hannah Moscovitch, this klezmer music-theatre hybrid is inspired by the true story of two…
Find out more »YAGA by Kat Sandler
From the mind that brought you Mustard, a genre-bending fairy tale meets whodunit inspired by the notorious figure of Baba Yaga, the hideous old witch who lives alone in the woods grinding the bones of the wicked. A gruesome murder in…
Find out more »The Life and Death of Fred Herko by Natalie Liconti
Join us for an immersive and site-specific performance presented as part of Workman Arts' Rendezvous With Madness Festival 2019 Step into an alternate future – somewhere between an intergalactic house party and Andy Warhol’s Factory. In 1964, at the age…
Find out more »Alice and the World We Live In by Alexandria Haber
ALICE: How long is forever? WHITE RABBIT: Sometimes, just one second. Alice stands frozen on a dangerous mountain pass. Paralyzed, unable to move forward or turn back, she is suspended between multiple possibilities of what could have been and what…
Find out more »In This House by Grace Thompson
Charlie is looking for happy, Remi is a struggling musician and bartender who has clinical depression, Jinx is a burlesque performer and PHD candidate who works at The Orange Balloon, and Minka, no one knows what Minka does. In This House is…
Find out more »Theory by Norman Yeung – American Premiere
"Theory" by Norman Yeung makes its American Premiere with Mosaic Theater Company in Washington, D.C., directed by Victoria Murray Baatin. The Herman Voaden National Playwriting Prize-winning play had its World Premiere in October, 2018, produced by Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.…
Find out more »Bang Bang by Kat Sandler
Lila is a Black former police officer whose career ended after she shot an unarmed Black youth. Her story is fictionalized by Tim, a white playwright whose play about the shooting takes liberties with the facts. Now there’s talk of…
Find out more »Our Ghosts by Sally Stubbs
“Our Ghosts is a drama inspired by the true story of the mysterious disappearance of my father and his co-pilot on a routine flight from the Comox Air Base on March 22, 1956.” So writes Sally Stubbs of her extraordinary…
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