By Alan Cho
Many call her the most important musician of her era. Her voice, like creased silk, cast out from thin lips heavy with nicotine to a world in need of understanding and compassion. And though brought up in a self-obsessed industry weaned on drugs, she gave the world her music. Songs like “Big Yellow Taxi”, “A… Continue reading Theatre Preview: The spirit of Joni Mitchell at ATP
By Emily Baum
He’s a genius of the highest order, a lover of music, a talented violinist and a drug addict. Possibly the best known super sleuth in history, his powers of observation are legendary. He labors relentlessly to aid humanity, aggressively pursuing crime while despising the majority of the common people. Consistently boggling the mind, he’s, if… Continue reading Theatre Review: Theatre Calgary and Holmes do it again
The scene is chaos redefined. A large prison riot in full swing and one of the inmates gets beaten and stabbed to death by three other inmates. As if that wasn’t enough, his naked body is then dragged up and down the prison hallways, leaving a trail of blood in his wake. After a while… Continue reading Theatre Preview: The Martini Redemption
Gross class division and corruption among the upper class mired the reign of Louis XIV of France. The University of Calgary’s Department of Drama revisits that time of turmoil with the first production of its season, Alain-Rene Lesage’s 18th Century French farce Turcaret. As the French Revolution brought about the end of Louis’ reign, the… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Turcaret-icious
A 100-minute trip taking you to Holland, London and China, from 1986 all the way back to when Jesus walked the Earth, sounds like quite a voyage. Unbelievable as it sounds, this is the journey actor Andy Curtis leads audiences on in One Yellow Rabbit’s presentation of Underneath the Lintel. Curtis plays a Dutch librarian… Continue reading Theatre Review: Andy Curtis leaves his mark
If you were fortunate enough to be one of those popular grade school children, than you know what it’s like to be fought over. Maybe one friend offers a chance to hang on the coveted monkey bars or a brownie from their lunch, while the other children just wants to stay on those familiar swings… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Heart and soles not only for cool kids
By Cayley Evans
In the last decade the cultural scene in Calgary has blossomed. The days of being “hicks” living in a “cowtown” with only the Stampede as the biggest “cultural” event of the year are long behind for Calgarians. We are now a cosmopolitan people in a city where large scale productions make stops and the home… Continue reading FireBelly’s gut feeling
Almost everyone who has had a library card has, at some point, been fined for overdue books. Return a book a week late and you discover how quickly fines can add up. So what about a book returned one hundred and thirteen years late? “My character’s line is ‘I’m going to hit him with the… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Andy Curtis: Librarian Bounty Hunter
Two actors playing fifteen characters on an almost bare stage seems like something you’d expect from a small, upstart theatre company working with a limited budget. So when the well-established Alberta Theatre Projects puts on a show like Marie Jones’s Stones in His Pockets, the set and large cast become noticeably absent, allowing audiences to… Continue reading Theatre Review: ATP’s latest has the stones in the right pocket
By Darlene Seto
Ever felt your emotions spiraling out of control-laughing one minute, but crying the next? Of the Fields, Lately, this season’s first offering by Theatre Calgary takes its audience on such a journey of incongruity, jumping from scenes of intense drama to inane humor within a blink of an eye. Written by one of Canada’s premier… Continue reading Of the Fields, Lately could use a trim