News Releases

  1. NAC Indigenous Theatre Opens Its Fifth Anniversary Season with Homelands

    September 12, 2024

    Powerful production from award-winning Six Nations choreographer Santee Smith and Kaha:wi Dance Theatre hits the stage September 19 and 20 September 6, 2024 – OTTAWA (Canada) – Braiding earthy and cinematic media, sound design, and performance, Homelands places Yethi’nihstenha / many womxn within the homelands and waters of Kahnyen’kehàka territory of upper state... Read more

  2. A True Love Story in the Face of Pandemic and Invasion

    September 10, 2024

    A TRUE LOVE STORY IN THE FACE OF PANDEMIC AND INVASION    Award-winning First Métis Man of Odesa makes its much-anticipated arrival at the NAC “First Métis Man of Odesa is a timely, intimate love story. The whole thing is beautifully, unabashedly theatrical.”  - Julia Peterson, Saskatoon Star Phoenix  September 10, 2024 – OTTAWA (Canada). NAC... Read more

  3. National Arts Centre to launch 2024-2025 season with new edition of SPHERE festival

    August 21, 2024

    SPHERE takes over NAC stages from September 10-20 Canada’s National Arts Centre (NAC) is proud to open its 2024-2025 season with SPHERE, a multi-disciplinary festival highlighting connections between art and the natural world. Presented by the NAC Orchestra and curated by its Music Director Alexander Shelley, SPHERE will engage all the NAC’s artistic disciplines, with participation... Read more

  4. Nuits claires from Vancouver to Caraquet: Twelve Canadian theatres to collaborate on an ambitious cumulative French language writing project

    June 11, 2024

    June 11, 2024 – OTTAWA (Canada) – The National Arts Centre is proud to announce that Nuits claires, a major pan-Canadian project initiated by Mani Soleymanlou, artistic director of NAC French Theatre, and Cory Haas, artistic and managing director of Vancouver’s Théâtre la Seizième, will kick off in a few weeks. The year-long collective venture... Read more

  5. The National Arts Centre Unveils a Stirring New Season for 2024-2025

    May 8, 2024

    Get your calendars ready for an epic journey of stage performances and beyond.  MAY 9, 2024 – Ottawa, Canada – The National Arts Centre today revealed its programming for the 2024-2025 season. Building on the success of the current season featuring some of the most diverse and creative Canadian and international artists, the 2024-2025 season will take audiences on breathtaking... Read more