News Releases
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The Classic Love Story is the Hit of the Holiday Season! Pride and Prejudice Extended with Additional Performance - Sunday, December 9 Tickets on sale Saturday
November 15, 2012
The Classic Love Story is the Hit of the Holiday Season! Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen adapted by Janet Munsil directed by Dennis Garnhum Extended with Additional Performance Tickets on sale Saturday Arriving hot off a sold-out run at Theatre Calgary, Pride and Prejudice has proven to be just as popular at the NAC. With strong ticket demand leading up to next... Read more
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The National Arts Centre inaugurates Dance Series C with a remarkable double bill by Beijing's TAO Dance Theater on November 22-24
November 14, 2012
The extraordinary TAO Dance Theater -- a dedicated exponent of pure movement and one of the few modern dance companies from mainland China -- makes their National Arts Centre debut on November 22-24, 2012. A dynamic new presence on the contemporary dance scene, TAO Dance Theater and its founder, dancer-choreographer Tao Ye, are known for outrageousness and bravura theatrical... Read more
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The National Arts Centre English Theatre/Theatre Calgary co-production Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen adapted by Janet Munsil Directed by Dennis Garnhum Featuring the NAC English Theatre Company November 21 – December 8, 2012 NAC Theatre
November 12, 2012
Ottawa, Ontario – In keeping with tradition, the NAC English Theatre is proud to present an enchanting theatre experience leading up to the holidays. Hot off a sold-out run at Theatre Calgary, a cast of 17 delivers the elegance of Pride and Prejudice to the NAC! The romantic world of Regency England is brought to vivid life in this sparkling new adaptation by Janet Munsil of Jane... Read more
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NAC/GCTC JOINT GENERAL AUDITIONS
November 7, 2012
National Arts Centre English Theatre Artistic Director Jillian Keiley, Associate Artistic Director Sarah Garton Stanley, Great Canadian Theatre Company Artistic Director Eric Coates and Artistic Associate Patrick Gauthier will be conducting joint general auditions in Ottawa Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23, 2012. These auditions are open to professional actors based in... Read more
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National Arts Centre announces the 2012 Share the Spirit program for deserving children and families
November 6, 2012
Ottawa (Canada) –The National Arts Centre (NAC), with the help of Presenting Partner Sun Life Financial and generous partners and donors, is bringing the magic of live performing arts this holiday season and throughout the year to hundreds of deserving children and their families in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. This is the fourth year for Share the Spirit, an initiative aimed at families... Read more
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National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Northern Tour reaches 6,000 people in Nunavut, Yukon, North West Territories -- NAC’s “Year of the North” continues with Northern Scene in the spring of 2013
November 4, 2012
OTTAWA—The National Arts Centre Orchestra’s first-ever Northern Canada Performance and Education Tour has been a great success reaching more than 6,000 community members, including students and elders, in three cities in Nunavut, Yukon and the North West Territories through six concerts and 50 educational activities over 10 days. The NAC Orchestra Northern Tour, which... Read more
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The National Arts Centre announces Northern Scene: 50 events, 250 artists, 10 days
November 2, 2012
OTTAWA–The National Arts Centre (NAC) is delighted to announce the first programming details of Northern Scene, the sixth in a series of national Scene festivals that showcases the finest established and emerging artists in the country. Northern Scene will be the largest gathering of artists from Canada’s North ever held outside the region. The festival will... Read more
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Transforming Lives through Music: National Arts Centre Orchestra visits Whitehorse Nov. 1-3 as part of its Northern Canada Tour Tour includes more than 15 music education activities in the community.
November 1, 2012
OTTAWA—Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra led by Norwegian Guest Conductor Arild Remmereit will perform two concerts in Whitehorse featuring superstar Canadian violinist James Ehnes. During the tour musicians from the NAC will engage in music education activities with the community as part of the Orchestra’s Northern Canada Tour (October 26 to November 4). GE Canada is the... Read more
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The National Arts Centre English Theatre presents thirsty by Dionne Brand adapted from her book of poetry, thirsty Directed by Peter Hinton WORLD PREMIERE November 5 - 17, 2012 NAC Studio
October 30, 2012
Featuring the NAC English Theatre Company Carol Cece Anderson, Audrey Dwyer, Andrew Moodie, and Jackie Richardson. Ottawa, Ontario – In 1978, Alan, a Jamaican man, is killed in his Toronto home by police. For the women in his life – his widow, daughter, and mother – the memory of the event still reverberates, fresh and raw. Dionne Brand, winner of the 2011 Griffin... Read more
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NAC Dance presents the powerful, heart pounding dance/rock fusion Political Mother by choreographer/composer Hofesh Shechter on November 9-10
October 29, 2012
Described as “a monumental piece possessing the atmosphere of a heart-pounding rock show,” internationally acclaimed Hofesh Shechter Company presents its first full-length work, Political Mother, at the NAC Theatre on Friday November 9 and Saturday November 10, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. Political Mother features eleven highly athletic dancers and a live band of seven musicians onstage. A... Read more