All that glitters: The Great Gatsby at Walterdale Theatre
When you go to The Great Gatsby you know you’re going to get a party, and Walterdale Theatre’s production does not disappoint….
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The elephant on stage: Matara
Conni Massing’s Matara (until Dec. 9 at the Backstage Theatre) feels like partly the story of Lucy the elephant at the Edmonton…
Desperate lessons in What a Young Wife Ought To Know
What a Young Wife Ought To Know is the type of play you wish wasn’t relevant in 2018. But unfortunately, centering…
Viscosity: vignettes about the patch
Viscosity promised to be unlike anything we’ve seen on Edmonton’s stages before. And it delivered. Created by Heather Inglis using…
Pay a visit to The Bone House this spooky season
Spend an evening with Eugene Crowley and you might get more than you bargained for. The Bone House is part lecture,…
Evolution revolution: Origin of the Species
The saying goes that there’s nothing that time can’t fix. In the case of Bryony Lavery’s Origin of the Species, all…
A lean, mean, embalming machine: Lenin’s Embalmers at the UofA Studio Theatre
There are no heroes in Lenin’s Embalmers. But there are a lot of macabre jokes, women named Nadia, and shots…
NextFest 2018: The Gooseberry
Juniper Wisniewski’s The Gooseberry is quite simply a dinner party from hell. Playing off the saying that marriage is hard,…
NextFest 2018: Where Do We Begin?
I kicked off my NextFest 2018 journey with Lady Vanessa Cardona and Joanna Simon’s Where Do We Begin? with sound design by…
Riches of all types abound in The Silver Arrow
An embarrassment of riches closes out Daryl Cloran’s first season of programming at the Citadel Theatre: The Silver Arrow: The Untold…
