Year in Review: Goodbye to the Gladstone: Goodnight, sweet stage

Maybe the most newsworthy and unfortunate thing to happen to the local theatre community is the announcement this past fall that the Gladstone Theatre, that lovely plaster-white building near Preston and Gladstone, is being put up for sale. Perhaps it was too much to hope that, after the success of the Great Canadian Theatre Company’s Irving Greenberg Theatre out in Hintonburg, Ottawa could afford to support another local professional performance venue. READ MORE

How does the other half love?

How does the other half love? A top-quality production christens the Gladstone The first play of any theatre’s season has to come right out of the blocks with strength, but still be committed to building an audience, and this production of Alan Ayckbourn’s How the Other Half Loves is perfect in that role. A twisting…