Sometimes we grow attached to art because it speaks to our values, and it hurts when we find out the history behind that art doesn’t align with our image of it. The critically acclaimed Disco...

Returning to campus for the fall semester, many of us will ignore displeased hissing as the most miserable members of the U of M retreat under sunny streams of shimmering dust motes into the...

In 2017, I attended Tanya Talaga’s talk at the Millennium Library where she was promoting her book, Seven Fallen Feathers. Part of Talaga’s book is a damning account of the ways police racism and...

Those who watched Barbie recently may have seen previews for Wonka, starring Timothée Chalamet as a young Willy Wonka before he founded his funhouse of candy-coated child torment. As a premise and as a product,...

4/5 stars Generic Male is shaping up to be a favourite at this year’s Fringe Fest with audiences discussing it long after they have left the theatre.  The show defies description in some ways, resembling a...

3.5/5 stars Why Not Murder Mother begins the moment the theatre doors open, with a character lying comatose on a bed flanked by her oddly calm daughters. Audiences are drawn into the narrative as ghostly...

4.5/5 stars Club Soda Improv returns to Fringe Fest with its resoundingly successful formula. Because the show is improvised and is therefore different every day, there are only a few things that audiences are sure...