April 29, 2024
The Spruce / Evgeniya Vlasova https://www.thespruce.com/tulip-types-for-spring-garden-1315804
10. Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery - Kanata Theatre
First on our list is Kanata Theatre's final show of their 2023-24 season, a Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Tickets are available for purchase at the website linked above. Show starts at 7:30pm.
Get your deerstalker cap on – the play’s afoot! Comedic genius Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. Sherlock Holmes is on the case. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their ingenious killer, Holmes and Watson must brave the desolate moors before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Watch as our intrepid investigators try to escape a dizzying web of clues, silly accents, disguises, and deceit as five actors deftly portray more than forty characters. Does a wild hellhound prowl the moors of Devonshire? Can our heroes discover the truth in time? Join the fun and see how far from elementary the truth can be.
9. Super Med Bros - uOttawa MedShow
Every year the uOttawa MedShow produces an annual musical to benefit a local charity. This year's production is titled Super Med Bros with proceeds from the show going to Campfire Circle. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at the link above. Show starts at 7:00pm at the uOttawa Academic Hall.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/medshow-2024-super-med-bros-tickets-860270190297
The title this year is Super Med Bros, a tale featuring four medical students’ journey in a video game universe. They discover themselves through various rites of passages, such as their first OSCE, rural week, and clerkship, with four bosses (preceptors) throwing wrenches and windfalls along the way. Super Med Bros portrays the realities and struggles shared by many medical students, while sharing hope and rekindling what inspires us to pursue this career. With a live band and a two-hour show, we invite you to experience the joys and realities of what Super Med Bros Med Students entail and come together as a uOttawa community!
8. Hamlet - The Company of Adventures
The Company of Adventures is back at it again with another Shakespearean classic, with an all-girls twist! Tickets can be purchased at the link above. Matinee show starts at 2:00pm & evening shows at 7:00pm at The Gladstone Theatre.
https://www.thegladstone.ca/hamlet/
The Company of Adventurers presents an all-girls production of Shakespeare’s unforgettable tragedy, Hamlet! Upon learning from his dead father’s ghost that his uncle has murdered his father, Hamlet is set on a tortuous path of moral self-questioning, paranoia, and madness. But is he truly mad or merely acting mad? “The play’s the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king,” Hamlet tells us. And so he sets a trap, a “mouse trap,” in the form of a play put on by a group of travelling actors which will reveal the guilt of his uncle. But Hamlet is not the only one who is acting. And there are so many traps!
7. Stag and Doe - Ottawa Little Theatre
Ottawa Little Theatre's ready to premiere their next comedy play, Stag and Doe next week at the Ottawa Little Theatre. Tickets can be purchased at the link above. Show starts at 7:30pm
https://www.ottawalittletheatre.com/stag-and-doe-2/
As one couple’s Stag and Doe is about to begin in their rural community hall, another couple swoops in to commandeer the party space after their wedding tent blows away. And to boot, the entire catering staff is in jail! An affectionate look at love, weddings, and the Stag and Doe, a distinctly Canadian pre-marital fundraiser.
6. Duets & Groups - Broadway Nights Ottawa
Coming in at number six is the beloved theatre sing-along group Broadway Nights Ottawa hosting their May event at Club SAW. Tickets are $15.00 and can be purchased at the website linked above. Doors Open 7:30pm, show starts at 8:00pm.
https://www.broadwaynightsottawa.com/
We're back with one of our most popular themes: DUETS & GROUPS! 🎙️🎶
Join us for your favourite musical theatre open mic and sing-along featuring Emma Chin as your host, Wendy Berkelaar on the keys, and Scott Latham on the drums! 🎹🥁 ✍️ Sign-Up to sing onstage with our live band, or just come to enjoy the show! Enthusiastic cheerers and I'll-sing-the-background-vocals-from-my-chair-ers are all welcome! 🎼 Choose a song from our list of over 200 beloved Broadway tunes, or bring any song you like by bringing your own sheet music! Song lists can be found in our Facebook Event pages for each event, and posted on our Instagram @broadwaynightsottawa (Song list coming soon!)
5. Rose in the Machine - NAC English Theatre Presentation
Next on our list is Port Parole's original play, Rose in the Machine, inspired by the writer's life stories. Tickets start at $31.00 ($15.00 tickets available for those under 30 with the NAC's UNDER30 program) and can be purchased at the website linked above. Matinee show starts at 2:00pm and evening shows at 7:30pm.
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/33676
Inspired by the writer’s own life experience, Rose in the Machine is the heartfelt and intimate journey of a mother seeking to understand her daughter’s autism, offering a compassionate window into the polychromatic shades of experience for families with neurodiverse children in Quebec. In navigating the many obstacles thrown in her path by our healthcare and education systems, Rose's mother breaks through pervasive barriers to arrive at an enlightened epiphany, and ultimately, hope for the future. At once intimate and epic, introspective and outward-looking, this award-winning play critiques the opacity of our social systems while rendering transparent the multi-hued world of the neurodiverse.
4. STUFF - 100 Watt Productions
Already a sold out production, the highly anticipated show produced by 100 Watt Productions premieres at the Great Canadian Theatre Company Theatre tomorrow night. Those interested in being put on a waitlist can do so by contacting the GCTC box office.
https://www.gctc.ca/shows/100watt
STUFF is about…our stuff. It’s about our attachment to material possessions, consumption, and confusing need with greed. Meanwhile, this living thing called planet Earth pays the price: landfills burst, a climate crisis rages everywhere, and yet the checkouts still have line-ups? But you know all this. So. Imagine a time in the future (a future that could be now) in which teens all over the world (TTF’s, Teenage Task Forces) unite with one goal: to eliminate stuff. And maybe that’s all we’ll say for now. Wait. One more thing: STUFF is about being human: the “I am because I have”, power imbalances, and the challenge of letting go.
3. SIX The Musical - Broadway Across Canada
Of course in our top three is the tony award winning musical SIX which finally arrives in Ottawa this month! Tickets are going very quickly so we recommend grabbing yours right away! Tickets can be purchased at the link above. Matinee show starts at 2:00pm and evening shows at 8:00pm.
https://ottawa.broadway.com/shows/six/
From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the six wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration of 21st-century girl power! This new original musical is the global sensation that everyone is losing their head over! SIX won 23 awards in the 2021/2022 Broadway season, including the Tony Award® for Best Original Score (Music and Lyrics) and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical.The New York Times says SIX “TOTALLY RULES!” (Critic’s Pick) and The Washington Post hails SIX as “Exactly the kind of energizing, inspirational illumination this town aches for!” The SIX: LIVE ON OPENING NIGHT Broadway album debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard cast album charts and surpassed 6 Million streams in its first month.
2. The Last Five Years - Elevator Theatre Company
Brand new to Ottawa, Elevator Theatre Company is here with their first show premiering tomorrow night at the Léonard Beaulne Studio. Tickets are almost completely sold out! You can grab yours at the website linked above. Show starts at 7:30pm.
https://www.elevatortheatrecompany.ca/shows?pgid=ls3w2fxe-c23d0448-920d-41d8-9be9-157ede03193f
An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties, who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy telling her story backwards while Jamie tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.
1. The Lightning Thief - Suzart Productions
Our number one most anticipated show of the month is Suzart Productions The Lightning Thief which is already an almost sold out production! Tickets are still remaining for their Saturday relaxed show! You can grab yours at the website linked above. Matinee show starts at 2:00pm and evening shows at 7:30pm.
https://meridiancentrepointe.com/en/lightning-thief
As the half-blood son of a Greek god, Percy Jackson has newly discovered powers he can't control, a destiny he doesn't want, and a mythology textbook's worth of monsters on his trail. When Zeus's master lightning bolt is stolen and Percy becomes the prime suspect, he has to find and return the bolt to prove his innocence and prevent a war between the gods. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the thief…! Adapted from the best-selling book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and featuring a thrilling original rock score, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is an action-packed mythical adventure “worthy of the gods” (Time Out New York).
*As Orpheus' The Wizard of Oz continues into June, it will be included in our June roundup. Stay posted!