Onstage this weekend in Edmonton: sneak peeks at the new Varscona
If you're a kid (or someone related to one), you'll be the very first audience to experience live theatre onstage in the newly renovated Varscona Theatre. For free. In honour ...
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Theatre Edmonton Cappies nominations celebrate high school theatre
"Only thing to do is jump/ Only thing to do is jump over the moon," sings an edgy performance artist in Rent, the 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical. That kind ... -
Theatre Edmonton's Shadow Theatre unveils 25th season
Shadow Theatre will be home, in style, in the newly renovated Varscona, for their upcoming 25th anniversary season.
The Runcible Riddle full of odd encounters behind the scenes at the Citadel
there is something inspired about the idea of meeting Edward Lear characters up close, deep in the mysterious backstage labyrinth of a big theatre. It might happen in a warehouse ...
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Theatre Shadow Theatre's Ten Times Two a very funny lesson in relationships
There is nothing funnier to be had in town, at the moment, than the look on Garett Ross's face the moment the lights come up to reveal him sitting beside ... -
Entertainment On stage in Edmonton this weekend: burlesque uncovers history
They're the ultimate history buffs. They go for the undercover stories; they reveal the underpinnings of the past, so to speak. In fact, revelations are their specialty. Send in the ... -
Theatre Cappies reviews: Smile
Rajah Maggay Archbishop MacDonald High School Past the clouds of hairspray, flurries of sashes, chunky cellphones, neon-coloured everything, and big, teased hair was an inside look at one of the ... -
Theatre Same time next century
So, a man meets a woman in a bar in 1399 ... Ten Times Two: The Eternal Courtship takes the long view of relationships. Epic, really. The man, a macho ... -
Theatre Cappies reviews: Into the Woods
Brooklyn Melnyk Strathcona High School You can go into the woods to see, or sell, or get, or bring, or make, or lift anything beyond your wildest desires, perhaps even ... -
Theatre Theatre review: Wish at Edmonton's Northern Light is an uncomfortable love story
The sign language indicator for "wish," we learn in Wish, is fingers crossed. Your own will be crossed, again and again, for reasons that change, in the course of the ... -
Entertainment Gordon delivers lethal black comedy at Edmonton's Theatre Network
Morris Panych's raucous and funny 2010 double-Gordon comedy overturns — no, explodes — a cherished theatre motif, the family reunion whereby the issues planted by the past tend to get ... -
Theatre West Side Story owns the streets, at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre
For his second revival of West Side Story in 11 years and the finale to 17 years of his Citadel artistic directorship, Baker has taken a landmark 1957 musical that ... -
Theatre Wish: the (sign) language of love at Edmonton's Northern Light Theatre
Based on an unsettling Australian novel by Peter Goldsworthy, Wish is a love story that isn't just star-cross'd, it's species-cross'd. It invites us into the bonding, deepening problematically, between a ... -
Theatre Annie returns to Edmonton stage with veteran actress playing Miss Hannigan
It's no hard-knock life playing the mean old Miss Hannigan in a touring production of the musical Annie.