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The Observer’s reporting on the Creative Arts includes a regular array of features on local artists, musicians, actors and theatre companies in Waterloo Region.
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Celebrating Christmas with a virtual cabaret show
December’s arrival would typically see the Christmas concert season move into high gear. But as with almost all…
Learning to tell a story from the ground up
Everybody’s got a story to tell. Thanks to the Registry Theatre in Kitchener, the area’s young people can…
Quarantine leads to new songs, debut EP
Kitchener-born musician Matthew Burkhart was on vacation in Arizona when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Western world. He…
Plenty of stories of pets in the workplace
With so many people working from home of late due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people with pets are…
The show must go on
For EDSS drama teacher DJ Carroll, it’s just not Halloween without some kind of show featuring his students…
Theatre inspired by all things vintage
Stories can come from everywhere around us. Whether it is something we see, an experience we may have,…
An unlikely story that she just had to tell
Paul Frey dropped out of school at 14 and eventually took over his father’s trucking business, not an…
Chiara Heard wins Wellesley Idol title
It was a Wellesley Idol unlike any of the others since the competition was launched in 2005, but…
Studio tour offers up online options
A switch to digital has been inevitable for the team running the Kissing Bridge Studio tour. After much…
Coronavirus worries prompts cancellation of ECT’s outdoor show
Summer stock productions are a mainstay of the theatre. The Elora Community Theatre, for instance, has been offering…