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The Kitchen Sink Project
This is not news: The kitchen sink is the albatross of Canadian theatre, an invitation to the bleakest kind of voyeurism. This is news: a Megan Dart initiative called The Kitchen Sink Project,...
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The new theatre season
In 6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took On The World And Won, the season-opener at Northern Light Theatre, a pair of Slovakian ice-dancers, former world champions (Amber Borotsik and Jesse Gervais), are...
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Canoe Festival 2013: out of the mainstream
Victoria Melody, whose name makes you want to warble, is irresistibly attracted to “communities where I don’t seem to belong,” and to “people who would never want to hang around with me normally.”This...
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Springboarding to next season…
Let no one argue that Springboards doesn’t live up to its name. Workshop West’s upcoming 35th season contains two new plays by well-known writers with Edmonton connections. Both Brad Fraser’s Kill Me...
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Play Slam, the hand-to-hand combat for playwrights
We’ve seen poets and other gladiators compete to the death for supremacy. Play Slam, returning Saturday to Workshop West for the second year, gives us the, er, dramatic spectacle of a playwright...
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News from Workshop West: Michael Clark “tenders resignation”
Three weeks ago, on January 29, with Workshop West’s Canoe Festival in progress, Michael Clark was suddenly “no longer the artistic director of Workshop West,” according to board chair Kenneth Fitz....
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Snow Schmow: it’s a big weekend in Edmonton theatre
You can’t possibly be thinking about hibernating this weekend. Not when there are this many possibilities on stages around town. Consider: 1. Famous Puppet Death Scenes, the Old Trout Puppet Workshop...
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Workshop West works magic with The Parlour
Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre is hosting a fund-raising event featuring magical entertainment and fabulous food at downtown’s The Parlour Italian Kitchen and Bar (10334 108 St.) It’s on Sunday,...
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This is YEG an inspiring inside look at Edmonton
It was YEG weekend in YEG. In one of the most intriguing — and labour-intensive — theatrical initiatives of the season, Workshop West’s This is YEG made something Edmonton, and revealed its eight “new...
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Perception launches the new L'UniTheatre season
Theatre artists of every size, weight and personality know that amazing things can happen when you say Yes (or Oui, or both), instead of the alternative. When choreographer Caroline Rouleau approached...
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Sound-Off brings groundbreaking deaf talents to Edmonton stage
A national festival dedicated to the deaf performing arts is debuting in Edmonton — the first of its kind held in Canada. SOUND OFF, a collection of art, theatre, dance, movement art and music...
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Huge theatre season kicks off with New York glam and down-home tales
Wearing black tights is one of my favourite fall activities, right up there with eating apples outside after doing yard work when your hands are cold and red. But the best thing of all, come fall, is...
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Salons distill the truth about Alberta ranching legend John Ware
There are many points of entry into the John Ware story. For local black activist and poet, Nasra Adem, it was the love story that drew her close to one of the most important black historical figures...
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Pretty Goblins serves dark tale with side of funny bones
Edmonton is blessed with funny women. Not just strange-funny, although we like them, too — but laugh-out-loud funny. Think on-stage talents such as Hey Ladies, with the outrageous comic stylings of...
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The long walk to the stage: Liane Faulder pulls back the curtain on her...
Now, it was me. For years I had watched Fringe artists working the streets of Old Strathcona on those long, hot August days, convincing strangers to take in their performance. Frankly, I felt sorry for...
View ArticleThe unforgettable story of an elephant, and her home, on stage at Workshop West
One benefit to being an internationally recognized theatre town is that Edmonton is home to talented artists who know River City inside out. So it is with the award-winning Conni Massing, the...
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