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Carly Maga

Carly Maga is a new Calgarian by way of Toronto and Ottawa, where she is Senior Manager of Marketing & Communications at Arts Commons. She has been a freelance arts writer and critic for over 10 years and served as a theatre critic for the Toronto Star from 2015 to 2021. She has also taught theatre criticism at the University of Toronto, Brock University, and Generator, and is a former President of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association.

    Latest from Carly Maga

    Merry and Pippin are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd will make their theatre debut in Halifax (followed by a run in Toronto) as a duo they first talked about playing while on the set of The Two Towers.

    How one of the world's first viral videos led to Canada's first all-Filipino musical production

    Romeo Candido and Carmen De Jesus wanted to "bring humanity back" to Cebu's Dancing Inmates with Prison Dancer, on now at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and coming soon to the National Arts Centre.

    Nearly 10 years ago, he publicly forgave his attacker. This play shares his complex journey since

    Scott Jones made headlines for his act of grace. But the real emotional arc has been much more complicated. I Forgive You, a new play at the National Arts Centre, tells his story.

    Why groundbreaking Black playwright Alice Childress is having a resurgence

    She was meant to be the first Black female playwright produced on Broadway with 1955's Trouble in Mind, but she refused to rework the play for white audiences.

    100% that Moscovitch: One of Canada's most acclaimed playwrights is reaching a whole new audience

    Hannah Moscovitch's writing brings a soft darkness to AMC's Interview With the Vampire and the epic new play Fall On Your Knees.

    Calgary Stampede's First Nations Princess wants you to understand her people's connection to the rodeo

    Sikapinakii Low Horn is digging deep into the complex history of Alberta's Treaty 7 communities and the Stampede.

    Trojan Girls embraces the live-and-in-person future of theatre — safely and with a twist

    See the cast announcement here. The play's eight actors will switch locations, characters and plotlines for the latest from Factory Theatre and Outside the March.

    Why are playwrights moving to TV writing — and do the two mediums need to be feuding?

    Theatre makers have helped craft hit shows like Euphoria, Fleabag, Succession and Kim's Convenience.
    Point of View

    'I'm way too impatient. I just want to do it.' Nina Lee Aquino on representation and resilience at NAC

    The National Arts Centre's new English theatre head looks to "rise above limitations."

    Stephen Sondheim showed us exactly what musicals can be: complex, grand, and unabashedly earnest

    Good musicals bring you a spectacle; great musicals bring you humanity on otherworldly levels, and the outpouring of love for Sondheim is proof of their power.