Martha the Ghost and the Missing Posters: An OLT Mystery
Zoinks Scooby ! We have a real mystery on our hands. Well it’s good to be back.. sort of. Still self isolated and working from home, but it feels wonderful to be inspired to write [...]
JT Morris to become Orpheus Musical Theatre’s new General Manager!
JT Morris As many of you may have heard, JT Morris, our Patron Services Manager, is moving on to new adventures! JT has accepted a new position as Orpheus Musical Theatre’s first General [...]
Winners of the 79th Annual National One-Act Playwriting Competition
April 30, 2020, Ottawa, ON – The Ottawa Little Theatre’s 79th Annual National One-Act Playwriting Competition received 36 entries from across the country. The winners join a long list of Canadian literary luminaries including Robertson [...]
An update from Geoff Gruson, OLT Board President
FOLKS – so I expect that right about now the continuous diet of Netflix and Amazon streaming may be getting a little stale. You are probably longingly looking forward to “being let out.” Well, this [...]
BURN BABY, BURN!
Eros at Breakfast was written by Robertson Davies in 1947 and championed by the Ottawa Drama League (later called the Ottawa Little Theatre) on an award-winning trajectory. 70 years ago, the Ottawa Drama [...]
Hair and Makeup and More…a few minutes with designer Sondra Rogers
“You look MAHvelous!” – Billy Crystal (as Fernando Lamas) Saturday Night Live In our society, one of the key aspects to looking and feeling good is taking particular care of your hair and makeup. Theatre hair styling and makeup on the [...]
Guess Who’s Coming to Direct (Hint: It’s Brian Cano)
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing fellow OLT Board of Directors member and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner director Brian Cano who details his experiences and advice for putting on a production from start to [...]
Quiet on the Set: An interview with Set Designer Rachel Hauraney
While watching the Ottawa Little Theatre production of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, I was transported in time back to my childhood growing up in the sixties. This was partially due to the subject matter of [...]
A BOUILLABAISE THAT BOMBED: The Centennial Play
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – on stage at OLT through February 29, 2020 – premiered in 1967, and it shines a bright light back to the era of civil rights. In 1967, the OLT [...]
Spotlight on Gerry Larocque
If during the intermission of Guess Whose Coming to Dinner you take the opportunity and admire the art on display, you may think to yourself that the style looks familiar, especially the abstract paintings. You [...]