(Photo: Mabelle Carvajal and Graham Percy in The Big Sleep. Photo courtesy Tim Nguyen, Citrus Photography) Vertigo Theatre presents The Big Sleep through October 16 vertigotheatre.com Three and a half stars Watching a staged adaptation of film noir in 2016,... Continue Reading →
Who remembers 1950? I don't. That was some year in some history book that didn't feature a war, or economic collapse. It was a year before a young centre fielder named Willie Mays would take up residence in centre field... Continue Reading →
Broadway might be all multi-billion dollar babies these days, but back around the mid-1970's - says author Michael Riedel, in Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway - it wasn't even a million dollar baby. That's when the Shubert Organization, Broadway's... Continue Reading →
Alberta Theatre Projects presents Waiting for the Parade by John Murrell at Martha Cohen Theatre through October 1 http://www.atplive.com Three and a half stars When John Murrell was commissioned to write Waiting for the Parade by Alberta Theatre Projects, way... Continue Reading →
For Patti Derbyshire the question is wrong. Sitting outside Amato Gelato, on Kensington Road in Calgary, I ask her if she lives a creative life. She shrugs. Source: Patti Derbyshire
Jill Drader has always been a builder. Only now, instead of setting tiles, she helps reset people’s lives. Source: Jill Drader
Handsome Alice Theatre presents The Tall Building by Jill Connell at Motel in Calgary through September 17 Four stars (out of five) (Photo: Telly James and Geoffrey Simon Brown, courtesy Citrus Photography Sulla (Genevieve Pare) is anxious. She's a woman... Continue Reading →
The first two weeks of July belong to Montreal, where the Jazz Festival collides with an international circus festival to create a city that positively levitates.
The thing about sports that it shares in common with performing arts is that they're both consumed best live. They unfold right in front of you, in real time, often in imperfect circumstances.
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