Snow Globe Festival of kids’ theatre opens tonight
Ellen Chorley has never written anything quite like Birdie On The Wrong Bus. For one thing, there’s a big perfumey whiff of fairy tale about most of her plays for kids. The reigning queen of...
View ArticleOver The Edge with 4-Play: the 20th anniversary edition at Catalyst
It’s so crazy that it actually makes a kind of practical sense. For two decades now, Catalyst has done something that no other theatre has thought of doing: in an inspired flourish of high-speed...
View ArticleI Am For You: conflict resolution with swords at Concrete
Life’s a struggle. And if you need any evidence, there’s … high school! In I Am For You, a new and unusual Mieko Ouchi play for young audiences opening Friday for the public at C103, two teenage girls...
View ArticleIt’s Christmas! see a live show
Holiday shows continue this weekend! *A Christmas Carol, the best stage version I’ve ever seen of this thrilling ghost story about last-minute redemption on Christmas Eve, is creating magic on the...
View ArticleShout! The Mod Musical brings groovy to C103
OK, there is actually a downside to ’60s nostalgia, as Kristen M. Finlay has discovered in the course of directing Shout! The Mod Musical, opening at C103 tonight. Those tunes are so damned contagious....
View ArticleIntermission is over: hopes for Act II of the season
The theatre season isn’t over; it’s only intermission. And Act II is full of exciting possibilities for your nights out in this otherwise monochromatic burg. Check out some of them:...
View Article2015 through the eyes of Blarney Productions
Blarney Productions, an award-winning nine-year-old indie company with a stellar history of challenging, complex provocations from everywhere including here – Murielle, 3…2…1, Orange Flower Water –...
View ArticleA cross between Andy Warhol's factory and Jennifer Beale's Flashdance studio
“O My Gawd, you’re friggin’ kidding!” The moment Heather Redfern walked into a derelict railway storage warehouse on Gateway Boulevard in Old Strathcona one fateful day in 1996 didn’t offer up a vision...
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