Review: Newest Persephone production captures heartfelt loss, grief and hope

Keith Barker’s script contains moments of unparalleled beauty wrapped in a cloak of anguish.
New Persephone play explores family, grief and mental health

“I hope people think about opening up, and caring for one another, and making time to talk about heavy stuff with good friends and family.”
Review: Extravagant and adorable, Persephone Theatre’s Christmas play delights

Persephone could not have put together a better show to capture the spirit of Christmas. It is at once fun and heartwarming, and the audience danced out of the theatre.
Pride and Prejudice and Christmas: Persephone holiday show a Jane Austen sequel

Persephone Theatre is bringing the spirit Regency Era to the stage for the holiday season with a show inspired by a classic novel. Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley serves as a sequel to the beloved Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice. Set two years after the events of the novel, the play by Lauren Gunderson […]
Of art and war: New Saskatchewan play gets long-awaited debut

Now, more than two years after it was originally scheduled to debut, ‘The Art of War’ produced by Hardly Art Theatre is getting its time to shine at the BackStage Stage from Nov. 9 to 12.
Family turmoil at the heart of next Live Five play

“It’s poetry. The situations and the way the characters relate to each other are so essentially human,” director Clare Middleton said.
New theatre collective making debut with provocative French play

Whirligig Theatre Collective’s “The Maids” runs from Oct. 24 to Nov. 7 at the Avenue Room in downtown Saskatoon.
Review: Cultures, love and humour collide in ‘First Metis Man of Odesa’

A love story is always fascinating to watch, but a true love story that lands in the middle of a pandemic and a war seems wild to consider. Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova capture the playfulness of new love and infuse humour into tragic events.
Real-life, world-spanning love story at heart of next Persephone show

The whirlwind life experiences of Khomutova and Mackenzie are the basis for ‘First Métis Man of Odesa,’ the new Canadian play gracing the Persephone Theatre until
Review: ‘Bright Half Life’ starts Persephone season on a tremendous high note

The opening show of Persephone Theatre’s 2023/2024 season is a perfect example of how live theatre can simultaneously be hilarious and heartbreaking.