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Arts & Culture
Reviews
URN Comes Home to the LSPU Hall
Santiago Guzmán’s award-winning play URN—a heartfelt drama about belonging, family, and grief—has its homecoming this week in St. John’s.
Andie Bulman
June 29, 2022
# theatre
Arts & Culture
Review
Muskrat Dreams Kept Me Up Last Night
In explaining NL's biggest boondoggle in under an hour—with clarity, humour, and puppets—Tara Manuel has accomplished a real theatrical feat.
Andie Bulman
March 25, 2022
Arts & Culture
Ladies Who Lunch and the Thrill of Homegrown Horror
With all original pieces, in-show "ads" and an on-stage Foley artist, Ladies Who Lunch showcase the passion that goes into producing a radio play.
Stef Curran
November 6, 2020
Arts & Culture
Interview
Longread
Berni Stapleton is Paving Her Own Path
Memorial University's new writer-in-residence talks about inclusive theatre, the power of the province's past, and her pathbreaking career in the arts.
Rhea Rollmann
October 9, 2019
Arts & Culture
News
The year of Newfoundland’s triumph
Rhea Rollmann
August 8, 2018
To Each Their Own
Revue 2016: The good, the bad and the ugly
Rising Tide Theatre strikes again in hilariously highlighting the absurdity of N.L. politics. But is it a foregone conclusion that there's nothing we can do…
Rhea Rollmann
January 26, 2017
News
Performance as knowledge
This week the artistic director of a local theatre company hopes to "start a conversation" about injury, illness, sadness, grief and hospital culture --- through…
Justin Brake
March 4, 2015
Arts & Culture
Fruithead will leave you laughing, blushing…and maybe scratching
Writer/actor Sara Tilley challenges personal beliefs and social norms as she explores creation, life, the environment, relationships and mortality through the movement, facial expression and…
TheIndependent.ca
July 19, 2013
Arts & Culture
An old story and its Realm of Possibilities
In its debut production, 'Walkmann', Burning Circle Company explores the connection between communication technology, human relationships and consciousness — no small undertaking. But they're stoked.
Justin Brake
June 29, 2012
Arts & Culture
Oil and Water: a complicated success
A powerful play that doesn't just tell a heartwarming story
Rhea Rollmann
June 13, 2012
What We're Making
Theatre for ourselves?
The Indy's arts columnist reflects on Newfoundland theatre and the stories it tells
Aimee Wall
October 14, 2011
Arts & Culture
History of Artistic Fraud
Local theatre company recounts the past and remounts tale of Emile Benoit
Megan Gail Coles
May 2, 2011