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Canadian Theatre Review The Canadian Theatre Review features thought-provoking plays and articles on current issues and tren CTR is available in print and online.

The Canadian Theatre Review features thought-provoking plays and articles on current issues and trends in Canadian theatre. CTR provides the Canadian theatre community with in-depth feature articles, manifestos, slideshows, videos, design portfolios, photo essays, and other documents that reflect the challenging forms that theatre takes in the contemporary Canadian arts scene.

The new issue of Canadian Theatre Review, Volume 202, spotlights XR Performance, tracing the evolution of extended reali...
04/06/2025

The new issue of Canadian Theatre Review, Volume 202, spotlights XR Performance, tracing the evolution of extended reality (XR) technologies in theatre over the past several decades. From fully immersive virtual reality productions to site-specific experiences enhanced by augmented reality on mobile devices, this issue examines how XR is reshaping the possibilities of performance.

Topics include interactive innovations driving digital theatre; the community-building potential of augmented reality; the use of XR as a pedagogical tool; and more. The issue also features the original script of Alone Together, a compelling exploration of our relationship with machines and the shifting nature of presence in an AI-driven world.

Read the full issue: bit.ly/ctr202

Debbie Deer Productions York U AMPD Dustin Scott Harvey

What role does art and performance play in the climate crisis? Can AI shape the future of the arts in Canada? How can we...
27/01/2025

What role does art and performance play in the climate crisis? Can AI shape the future of the arts in Canada? How can we strengthen Indigenous intercultural practices to help forge new paths in the Canadian theatre sector?

These are just a few of the thought-provoking questions explored in Canadian Theatre Review 201: Future, Uncertainty, and the Theatre Sector. This issue dives deep into the critical issues impacting the future of Canadian theatre, offering a space for artists, scholars, and thought leaders to reflect on how we can reimagine the landscape of theatre in Canada.

With a focus on the possibilities that lie ahead, this issue challenges us to rethink, anticipate, and navigate the future of the arts.

Explore these vital discussions shaping the future of Canadian arts. Read the full issue here: bit.ly/ctr-201

Journals - University of Toronto Press Toronto Metropolitan University University of Regina University of Calgary

Canadian Theatre Review is celebrating its 50th year, and 200th issue!For five decades, Canadian Theatre Review (CTR) ha...
23/12/2024

Canadian Theatre Review is celebrating its 50th year, and 200th issue!

For five decades, Canadian Theatre Review (CTR) has been at the forefront of critical discourse, shaping and expanding the boundaries of Canadian theatre scholarship. As the journal marks its 200th issue, CTR invites readers along on a captivating journey through its evolution, reflecting on its transformative impact on the Canadian theatre landscape and its unwavering commitment to innovation.

In this special commemorative issue, contributors explore key moments in Canadian Theatre Review’s history, including feminist histories and representations, the importance of Indigenous performance, the evolution of sexual politics and identity, and more. These reflections highlight Canadian Theatre Review's dedication to pushing boundaries and amplifying diverse voices throughout its 50-year legacy.

As Canadian Theatre Review celebrates its past, it also looks ahead to the next 50 years of critical engagement, creativity, and cultural dialogue.

Dive into the 200th issue to discover how Canadian Theatre Review has shaped Canadian theatre studies—and how it continues to evolve alongside it: bit.ly/ctr199200

Canadian Theatre Review 198 shines a spotlight on Black Futures and Freedoms. This issue seeks to provide a panoramic vi...
20/12/2024

Canadian Theatre Review 198 shines a spotlight on Black Futures and Freedoms. This issue seeks to provide a panoramic view of trends, conversations, and aspirations for the direction of theatre from Black perspectives, with the goal of continuously growing the community and addressing the complexity and nuance of Black experiences in Canadian theatre.

In this issue, contributors explore everything from pedagogy to research to artistic practices, canons, futures, and freedoms, amplifying the experiences of Black Canadian artists, examining experiences from past and present, and identifying pathways forward.

Among the featured pieces, Raechele Lovell offers a deeply personal reflection on her artistic journey, while critically examining the systemic barriers still faced by many aspiring artists. Readers can also explore the creation of This Is Canada, an interactive play that focuses on the experiences of adult refugees and immigrants who identify as part of Edmonton’s African, Caribbean, and/or Black communities, as well as a thought-provoking piece examining cooking as performance and as a form of communication with ancestors.

Read the full issue here: bit.ly/ctr198

Raechele Lovell DiverseWorks Dance Co.

Canadian Theatre Review is celebrating its 50th year, and 200th issue! For five decades, Canadian Theatre Review (CTR) h...
20/12/2024

Canadian Theatre Review is celebrating its 50th year, and 200th issue!

For five decades, Canadian Theatre Review (CTR) has been at the forefront of critical discourse, shaping and expanding the boundaries of Canadian theatre scholarship. As the journal marks its 200th issue, CTR invites readers along on a captivating journey through its evolution, reflecting on its transformative impact on the Canadian theatre landscape and its unwavering commitment to innovation.

In this special commemorative issue, contributors explore key moments in Canadian Theatre Review’s history, including feminist histories and representations, the importance of Indigenous performance, the evolution of sexual politics and identity, and more. These reflections highlight Canadian Theatre Review's dedication to pushing boundaries and amplifying diverse voices throughout its 50-year legacy.
As Canadian Theatre Review celebrates its past, it also looks ahead to the next 50 years of critical engagement, creativity, and cultural dialogue.

Dive into the 200th issue to discover how Canadian Theatre Review has shaped Canadian theatre studies—and how it continues to evolve alongside it: bit.ly/ctr199200

Canadian Theatre Review
Journals - University of Toronto Press

“Audiences bring all kinds of skills and knowledge, but they arrive at each specific performance experience mostly unawa...
17/06/2024

“Audiences bring all kinds of skills and knowledge, but they arrive at each specific performance experience mostly unawares. And so, a key area of attention for participatory creators and scholars is to think about how these valued but uncertain collaborators entering into relation are to be guided and cared for.”

Guest editors Mariah Horner and Jenn Stephenson reflect on the meaning of participatory theatre in the introductory article for the latest issue of Canadian Theatre Review, themed “Participation.”

In CTR 197, Sammie Gough and Laurel Green (Yarrow Collective) explore creative acts of public gardening; Signy Lynch interrogates the role of discomfort in political participatory theatre; Keren Zaointz analyzes the Ottawa trucker convoy as an instance of participatory political violence; and more.

Explore CTR 197 online: bit.ly/CTR197

In 2020, Jacob Pittini and Mariah Horner attended Zuppa Theatre Co.’s Vista20, an app-guided theatre piece featuring tes...
03/04/2024

In 2020, Jacob Pittini and Mariah Horner attended Zuppa Theatre Co.’s Vista20, an app-guided theatre piece featuring testimonials on the COVID-19 pandemic. They wrote about the experience, and the role of liveness and embodiment in theatre, for a CTR article titled ““On Being a Walking Body: Dramaturgies of Participatory Pandemic Theatre.”

Now on the UTP blog, Jacob Pittini reflects on the article as a time capsule of participatory theatre during the pandemic. The original article is Free to Read until April 8 alongside the blog.

Read “Still Walking: Memories of Participatory Pandemic Theatre”: bit.ly/CTRblog-JP


Journals - University of Toronto Press University of Toronto Press

In CTR 191, Susan Fraiman offers a feminist reading of HGTV’s home-buying and renovation shows, asserting that a series ...
11/03/2024

In CTR 191, Susan Fraiman offers a feminist reading of HGTV’s home-buying and renovation shows, asserting that a series such as House Hunters challenges traditional gender hierarchies by promoting the importance of domestic life to both male and female viewers alike.

On the UTP Blog, Fraiman draws connections between studying House Hunters and her work as an Austen scholar. Fraiman’s original CTR article is until March 18th: bit.ly/CTR191c

Read “A Feminist Take on Home-Centred Reality Shows” on the UTP Blog: bit.ly/SF-CTR

March is Women’s History Month! In celebration, Journals - University of Toronto Press has made a selection of articles ...
04/03/2024

March is Women’s History Month! In celebration, Journals - University of Toronto Press has made a selection of articles on women’s history Free to Read until the end of the month, including Laine Zisman Newman’s contribution to CTR 163:

“Absent, Invisible, and Incoherent: Archiving Q***r Women’s Performance Futurities”

Read the article online: bit.ly/UTP-WHM24

“When we leave the theatre having had a powerful affective response to an image, what are we to do with it?”In Canadian ...
09/01/2024

“When we leave the theatre having had a powerful affective response to an image, what are we to do with it?”

In Canadian Theater Review Volume 192: Ethics and Socially Engaged Theatre, Theo Ioannou examined how theatre holds the power to foster solidarity through affect with an interpretation of Orestes in Mosul.

On the UTP blog, Ioannou expands on her research and how empathy can change the way we exist in the world.

Read “A Few Thoughts on the Theatre of Solidarity” online: bit.ly/CTRblog1

Theo Ioannou’s article “‘How Could We Not Go to Mosul?’: Empathy, Anagnorisis, and the Politics of Recognition in Orestes in Mosul” is until January 14: bit.ly/CTR192l

Celebrate Volume 192 of Canadian Theatre Review with us this Saturday on Zoom! We will also be joined by Theatre Resear...
09/06/2023

Celebrate Volume 192 of Canadian Theatre Review with us this Saturday on Zoom! We will also be joined by Theatre Research in Canada to celebrate the launch of their Volume 43, Issue 1 and Volume 44, Issue 1!

CTR Editor-in-Cheif Heather Davis-Fisch, guest editors Taiwo Afolabi and Yasmine Kandil, along with TRIC contributors Lib Spry, Annie Smith, Heunjung Lee, Jody H. Cripps, Dider Morelli, and Charlie Peters will all be at this launch.

Join on Zoom here: https://bit.ly/3X0HDgH

We’re celebrating the launch of CTR 193 Casting and Race at the (Re)casting Shakespeare in Canada Symposium! When: Sunda...
19/04/2023

We’re celebrating the launch of CTR 193 Casting and Race at the (Re)casting Shakespeare in Canada Symposium!

When: Sunday, April 30, 5pm
Where: Joseph G. Green Theatre, York University

Join editorial team members Mariló Nuñez, Jamie Robinson, and Marlis Schweitzer for this in-person and livestreamed event, part of a two-day program of critical conversations about casting in Canadian theatre.

Click here to register and browse the rest of the schedule: bit.ly/CTR193Launch

Read CTR 193 Casting and Race: bit.ly/CTR193

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