Updated: Oct 10, 2025 Theatre Calgary is staging the musical Legally Blonde at the Martha Cohen theatre from the 20th of May to the 15th of June. The theatrical depiction takes us through Elle Woods’ journey from being a fashion merchandise graduate to a law student, predicating her new legal career on being able to win…
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Sweeney Todd: Fringe Theatre’s Razor-Edge Revolt
Updated: Nov 9, 2025 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 Tony Awards and has come to be seen as a part of the UK’s high-art stage canon and has transitioned into becoming an important cultural opera, underscoring…
Prescription Murder: Columbo Without a Predator
Updated: May 18, 2025 Workshop Theatre is staging Prescription: Murder at the pumphouse theatre from the 9th to the 17th of May. Written by William Link & Richard Levinson, the play popularized the howcatchem formula (dramatic structure in which the murderer is known from the outset) that went on to define the eponymous television series, Columbo….
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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 vacillation got the better of the process. For anyone interested and fellow Shakespeare aficionados, it is an examination of some of the philosophical and psychological themes in Macbeth – metaphysical…
Blithe Spirit: Draped in Wit, Starved of Spirit
Updated: Apr 9, 2025 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 haunted matrimonies of Charles Condomine, whose attempt to research the occult leads to the spectral materialization of his first wife, Elvira, through the spiritual channeling of Madame…
Theatrical Malware: A Killing at La Cucina Crashes In Its Own Simulation
Updated: Sep 27, 2025 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 genre-mashing mix up of mindware mystery, synth-crime and neuro-noir. The ambition behind the script is innovative, touching on murder mystery motifs that incorporate modern anxieties around AI,…
Faith In Performance: A Double Dose of Murder
Updated: Mar 9, 2025 Workshop theater is staging a Double Dose of Murder, written by Alan LeBoeuf, at the Pumphouse theater from the 28th of February to the 8th of March. The play is a murder mystery, written using the genre-faithful principles of economical storytelling, sharply defined characters and an inner pulse of psychological intrigue. The play…
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 Rajiv Joseph, explores the bond between two friends, their love for basketball, and their cherishment of LeBron James. The play starts off with Shawn looking to buy some season basketball tickets…
Go For Gold Audrey Pham: No Mannequins Here, Theatre With Soul
Updated: Feb 22, 2025 Lunchbox Theatre staged Go for Gold, Audrey Pham, written by Camille Pavlenko, from the 28th of January to the 16th of February 2025. The play is an interesting blend of physical and character-driven humor, with the theme of eccentric mentorship serving as its dynamic heartbeat. The play follows Audrey Pham, a Canadian ski…
Deadly Murder: A Thriller Too Hesitant to Surrender to the Dark
Updated: Feb 14, 2025 Vertigo Theatre is staging David Foley’s mystery, deadly murder, from the 1st of February to the 2nd of March. Foley’s mystery spans numerous genres and defies neat categorization. It has wry humor, black comedy, classic whodunnit plot conventions, and a macabre edge. It veers towards the noir at times, creating an environment…