Arts & Culture

The cover of Jennica Harper’s Bounce House, published in late 2019, evokes the image of Carl Fredricksen’s house from the movie Up — carried from the Earth by balloons. The image alone encapsulates shared...

Award-winning author, local Manitoban and U of M alumna Donna Besel is the sole Manitoban to win a prize in the 2019 Prairie Fire Press and McNally Robinson Booksellers annual writing contest. Broken down into...

Like some gangly misbegotten phoenix, Hut Hut arrives — dusting off the ashes of the beloved Boats — and steps into a new world of sideways harmonies and dancing guitars. In fact, Mat Klachefsky’s freshly...

Who tells your story? Who is left behind? What is left behind? These are the types of questions the award-winning play Shakespeare’s Will examines. Written by Winnipeg-born playwright Vern Thiessen and directed by Eric Blais,...

Living in Winnipeg is not always easy, but it’s always something. Cold enough to crack bones and hot enough to melt pavement, Winnipeg is a city with a troubled spirit, a place of great...

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...