Nightwood is thrilled to launch our 2021-22 season with Rumble Theatre‘s imaginative and interactive online experience Good Things To Do. Blending an ethereal sonic landscape, solitary physical environment, and an unexpected use of technology, Good Things To Do invites participants to place themselves within a dreamscape in which they possess extraordinary powers. This wondrously immersive experience is a meditation …
Nightwood is delighted to be welcoming two new team members to the coven over the next few months! Please join us in welcoming Nightwood’s Artistic Producer Associate Reva Lokhande and (as of October) the incoming Head of Development Erika Morey! Reva Lokhande (she/her) is an arts manager and advocator, artist, actor, and aspiring stage manager, producer and director. She …
Nightwood is delighted to share the exciting new cohort of playwrights that we’ll be welcoming to our Write From the Hip program in the 21/22 season!
In light of the deeply painful and disturbing discoveries being made at residential school sites across the country, many folks have been making alternate plans to forgo celebrations on July 1st and #CancelCanadaDay. This movement seeks to use this day to honour and recognize the truth of Canada’s history through reflection, atonement, accountability and action. For …
We revelled in a smashing opening night launch of our annual Lawyer Show fundraiser production – The Stars of Mars, created by Ashley Botting (Second City) and Daniel Abrahamson (Musical Director, Boy Falls From The Sky)! With jaw-dropping, personalized illustrations of the cast by Michelle Tracey, inventive editing by Stream Stage Productions, lively sound design by Emily Porter, and inspired direction from Andrea Donaldson, Sedina Fiati (Assistant …
Trigger warning: Residential Schools. (Artwork by Chase Gray who created this beautiful piece in honour of the 215 children murdered at the Kamloops residential school.) As we mourn for the Indigenous children whose remains have been found and those who are still missing, we hold space for outrage and love, and call for action to face truths and encourage …
We can’t wait to share UnSpun Theatre‘s innovative and personal live art piece Lost Together with you next week as it kicks-off its run from May 25th to June 5th! Winner of the SummerWorks Performance Festival’s Production Prize in 2018, we are delighted to share that the first three days of the run have completely sold out and that there …
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the launch of Embodying Power and Place this past week! With twelve artistic responses from a dozen brilliant artists to each of the chapters of the final report from the federal commission on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, this digital experience stirs up so many essential discussions. If …
Reflections on a year of COVID-19 and social distancing. This short package includes a message from Nightwood Artistic Director Andrea Donaldson, highlights from the social distancing care packages sent over the course of a year, and updates on Nightwood’s going ons. Click here to view “A Year In” Click here to view the text-only version
This International Women’s Day Nightwood Theatre’s Artistic Director Andrea Donaldson invited our team to consider this prompt – what are you thinking about this IWD and what is an action you plan to take in honour of that thought? Andrea encouraged folks to explore a broad spectrum of angles, from the political to the personal, …