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There Goes the Bride: Heritage without Heat
Morpheus Theatre is staging There Goes the Bride at the Pumphouse Theatre from the 3 rd to the 11 th of October. The play is a standard...
2 days ago
The Brothers Paranormal: The Haunted Polis
“Though the rose is crushed, the scent remains.” - Sufi proverb Vertigo Theatre is staging The Brothers Paranormal from September 27 th...
7 days ago
Scintilla and the Enjoyment of Loss
The Theatre is staging Scintilla at 101, 215 14 av SW, from the 12 th to the 27 th of September. The play draws on domestic drama...
Sep 20
Made In Italy: Between Inheritance & Absence
Theatre Calgary is staging Made in Italy at the Martha Cohen Theatre from the 26 th of August to the 27 th of September. Written and...
Sep 7
Legally Blonde: When Choreography becomes Jurisprudence
Theatre Calgary is staging the musical Legally Blonde at the Martha Cohen theatre from the 20th of May to the 15th of June. The...
Jun 15
Sweeney Todd: Fringe Theatre's Razor-Edge Revolt
Front Row Centre Players are staging Sweeney Todd at the Pumphouse Theatre from the 16th to the 31st of May. The play has won several...
May 26
Prescription Murder: Columbo Without a Predator
Workshop Theatre is staging P rescription: Murder at the pumphouse theatre from the 9th to the 17th of May. Written by William Link &...
May 17
Update
Will be away till early to mid June to finish writing a book. It should have been completed a year ago, but personal indecision and...
Apr 20
Blithe Spirit: Draped in Wit, Starved of Spirit
Theatre Calgary is staging Blithe Spirit at the Max Bell Theatre from the 18th of March to the 13th of April. The play follows the...
Apr 6
Theatrical Malware: A Killing at La Cucina Crashes In Its Own Simulation
Vertigo Theater is staging A Killing at La Cucina from the 15th of March to 13th of April. The play, a Canadian original, is a...
Mar 29
Faith In Performance: A Double Dose of Murder
Workshop theater is staging a Double Dose of Murder , written by Alan LeBoeuf, at the Pumphouse theater from the 28th of February to the...
Mar 7
ATP's King James: The Agon of Human Connection
Alberta Theatre Projects is staging King James at the Martha Cohen Theatre from the 25th of February to March 16th. The play, written by...
Mar 2
Go For Gold Audrey Pham: No Mannequins Here, Theatre With Soul
Lunchbox Theatre staged Go for Gold, Audrey Pham , written by Camille Pavlenko, from the 28th of January to the 16th of February 2025....
Feb 17
Deadly Murder: A Thriller Too Hesitant to Surrender to the Dark
Vertigo Theatre is staging David Foley's mystery, deadly murder , from the 1st of February to the 2nd of March. Foley's mystery spans...
Feb 14
Halfway Out: Why I Walked Out of Theatre Calgary's 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
Theatre Calgary is staging a Streetcar Named Desire at the Max Bell Theatre from January 28th to February 23rd. I usually enjoy getting...
Feb 8
A Christmas Carol: Traversing Reality And Hope
"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead...
Dec 31, 2024
Charlotte's Web Unspun: A Brave New Spectacle of Hollow Theatre
Alberta Theatre Projects is staging Charlotte’s Web from November 26 to December 29th at the Martha Cohen Theatre. Adapted from E.B....
Dec 24, 2024
Paw-sitively Interesting: Humor, Hierarchy and Hope
Morpheus Theatre staged Puss in Boots at the Pump House Theatre from the 13th to the 21st of December, 2024. The play was advertised as a...
Dec 23, 2024
And Then There Was Disappointment
Workshop Theatre is staging And Then There Were None, based on Agatha Christie’s iconic mystery novel, at the Pumphouse Theatre from the...
Dec 6, 2024
A Stage Without Anchors: Laughs Abound but Mystery Falters
Murder on the Links, an Agatha Christie murder mystery, adapted by Stephen Dietz, is being staged by Vertigo Theatre till the 21st of...
Nov 21, 2024
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