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NAC Hip Hop Theatre Festival
May 5, 2023NAC Hip Hop Theatre Festival Curated by Rose-Ingrid Benjamin with Nina Lee Aquino and NAC Popular Music and Variety NAC English Theatre January 31 - February 11, 2024 Emerging in the 1970s from disenfranchised Black communities in the Bronx, hip hop has exerted a resounding influence on…
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The NAC is Alive with the Sound of Students
March 27, 2023You know when it’s student matinee day at the NAC. On those days, a quick trip to Equator coffee shop begs the question: “Do I weave my way through the hundreds of excited kids, or do I wait until later?” The caffeine enthusiasts among us will jump into the crowd and share the thrill, while…
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To The Moon and Back with Sarah Garton Stanley and the National...
March 27, 2023In July 2022, Sarah Garton Stanley (SGS) joined the NAC’s National Creation Fund as its new Artistic Producer. As an award-winning theatre maker, a change maker and a highly sought-after director and dramaturg, SGS seeks to forge connections between the performing arts and the questions of…
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Is God Is introduces the first NAC Black Out night
January 16, 2023NAC English Theatre is excited to begin 2023 with the Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning presentation of Aleshea Harris’ Is God Is, running February 9-18. As one of the milestones in a series of offerings over Black History Month, this genre-smashing production will introduce the first of two…
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Workshopping the Movement of Fall On Your Knees
January 13, 2023National Arts Centre English Theatre, Vita Brevis Arts, Canadian Stage, Neptune Theatre and Grand Theatre are preparing for unprecedented partnership that will bring the world premiere stage adaptation of the Canadian classic Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald to four cities –…
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Audition Call: Children’s Chorus of I Forgive You
November 4, 2022Deadline for video auditions: November 21st, 2022 Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and the National Arts Centre English Theatre are looking for child/youth singers in the national capital region for the upcoming play, I Forgive You, being presented at the NAC in Ottawa in March 2023. This…
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Eskasoni Theatre Camp: Sparking a passion for theatre
October 14, 2022Helping young people find their passion through theatre is the aim of a partnership between the National Arts Centre Arts Alive learning and engagement platform, NAC Indigenous Theatre, and the Highland Arts Theatre and the community of Eskasoni, both in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Launched…
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Say Hello to Nina Lee Aquino
October 7, 2022This past January, the NAC was thrilled to announce Nina Lee Aquino as the incoming Artistic Director for English Theatre. Nina is an award-winning Filipino-Canadian director and dramaturg who has tirelessly advocated for the representation and flourishing of IBPoC voices in Canadian…
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Stages of Transformation : Exploring the intersection of theatre and abolition
September 27, 2022Since 2014, NAC English Theatre has examined the changing shape of Canadian theatre through The Cycle, a trilogy of two-year research initiatives developed in partnership with artists and leaders from across the country. These in-depth investigations led to three areas of focus: Indigenous…
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Meet Omari Newton: actor, writer, educator and Arts Alive teaching artist
August 24, 2022As a teaching artist with Arts Alive, Omari Newton offers workshops on Slam Poetry and performing as well as various presentations that cover issues of social justice. The Montreal-born artist is an award-winning professional actor, writer, and director, and is a senior instructor at The…
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Black Theatre Workshop’s Artist Mentorship Program Showcase
June 30, 2022On June 3 and 4, AMP (the Artist Mentorship Program) based out of Black Theatre Workshop, presented their annual Industry Showcase, in partnership with NAC English Theatre. AMP, is a six to seven-month program offered to emerging artists at the beginning of their careers. The mission is…
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A fond farewell to Heather Moore
May 18, 2022Heather Moore has always felt like she had the best job in the world. As Executive Producer of the National Creation Fund, and before that of the NAC’s biennial Scenes festivals, she got to learn about Canada through its artists. “It has been a privilege to work with so many Canadian…
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Special projects
May 17, 2022The French Theatre Collective One of Mani Soleymanlou’s first initiatives as artistic director of French Theatre is to open up a horizon for the next generation of performers. He wants to offer them hope, but above all a genuine work opportunity, by mounting an annual production steered by…
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Mani Soleymanlou’s great cycle of identity returns to the stage!
April 4, 2022The upcoming NAC French Theatre season promises to get off to a strong start. To launch his first season as Artistic Director of French Theatre, Mani Soleymanlou has surrounded himself with some 40 Francophone performers from across Canada to revisit his plays Un, Deux and Trois, which he…
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World Theatre Day: Irdens Exantus
March 25, 2022A return to playfulness as a driver of change I have no real idea what the future holds I don’t pretend to know either But I hope we’ll hold onto the playfulness we’ve managed to find in sad things I hope we’ll make it contagious To bridge the gap that separates us from the people…