Arts & Culture

The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre kicked off Winnipeg’s 20th annual Master Playwright Festival with a 1960s-set adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It starring a talented cast of exceptional singers. Director Daryl Cloran created...

How do you perform a classic? Do you focus on perfecting the form or do you deliver a new interpretation of the piece? The U of M’s theatre program has decided reinterpretation is the...

Though electronic music and programmed sounds can have every bit as much humanity as live instrumentation, there may always remain that pervasive belief that real instruments manipulated by human hands say something that little...

The nature of the growing pop music monogenre — music that’s promoted largely on the way it blends multiple, supposedly incompatible genres — means that music like Bluebloods’s debut EP Make It Rain rarely...

Welcome to the ’20s everyone. While war, violence and environmental collapse seem to encroach more and more each day, maybe there are some trappings of a bygone era that aren’t all that bad. For instance,...

If you missed the Manitoba debut of Cranks in October, you luckily have a second chance to see the film at Cinematheque. The film is best pitched by adapting the opening lines from Canadian...

In Casati’s wide-eyed vision of folk music, there’s a refreshing absence of whisky and murdered wives — rather, the trio crafts a gentler world, one that sidesteps the genre’s more obvious tropes in favour...