Kimberly Lemaire

For many of us, those COVID lockdowns were like living in the movie Groundhog Day. But not Nolan Tucker. He lived in a movie called 608 — a movie he made at home with the help of his parents, at 12 years old. “When you watch 608, it’s obvious that it was made by a kid,” Tucker says humbly of his homage to slasher films of the ’80s. “It was just a really cool experience, and it was the first seed of me figuring out that I’d want to do this as a career.

Photo: Larocque Photography. At the Gladstone Theatre until June 27, Legends is the Iron Cabaret’s “Dungeons and Dragons” (D&D) inspired romp that brings mythology to life. Undulating Gods and Goddesses are offered up for worship on the stage. Legs squeeze and spread as the highly skilled performers embody Desire on poles, hoops, silks, and handstand canes. For the Canadiana lover, there’s even a devil in a suspended steel canoe. Photo: Larocque Photography.

Photo by Maria Vartanova. Written by David Haig and directed by Ian Gillies, Pressure tells the true story of a single decision that changed the course of history. In June of 1944, in a beautiful manor house in Portsmouth, England, the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was planning Operation Overlord, the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied France known as D-Day.