Cheech & Chong blow off Edmonton
Here we go again. Is it something we said? Something we didn’t buy enough of? Who knows – but yet another major Edmonton concert has been cancelled due to “an unforeseen scheduling conflict.” No further explanation was forthcoming from the Cheech & Chong camp – whose Oct. 7 “O Cannabis” show at the Jubilee Auditorium […]
LISTEN HERE: Everybody wants to be wanted in The Wanting, by Hewson Grey
Joe Paonessa sometimes switches out the pronouns in that song he sings about wanting love and never being satisfied. “It could be a guy looking for a guy, a girl looking for a girl. It doesn’t matter. It’s about people looking for that connection. Everybody wants something and everyone wants to be wanted,” he says. […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Maiden tour named for video game
The legendary Iron Maiden are in town Friday as part of the North American portion of their “Legacy Of the Beast” Tour, which shares the name of a mobile game the group released in 2016. The turn-based RPG game features Iron Maiden’s infamous mascot Eddie; players collect combatants and fight infernal foes. The band’s last […]
Bob the Angry Flower
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End of the Earth
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FRINGE 2019 HAT LINE: Street performers deserve our applause – and our money
So that’s it for the 2019 Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival. One more day. We’ve seen the 250 plays, give or take a play, gossiped about two different yet strangely related scandals (long story), and sampled fare from least three different curry stands. Now can we give a little love to our underrated and often poorly-treated […]
FRINGE 2019: Jesus battles Satan in convoluted adventure
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: the remix Stage 35 (La Cite Francophone Theatre) Seattle’s innovative company Theatre Simple has been bringing challenging theatre to the Fringe for many years. Think Escher’s Hands and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Not just content to present original text, their work features imaginative movement and creativity and put their own unique […]
FRINGE 2019: The World’s Wife a dark, dangerous exploration of womankind
The World’s Wife Stage 8 (Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre) The World’s Wife is a three person play that takes the audience on a chaotic, tradition upending journey through history, mythology, fairytale and, well, real life. The work is adapted from a cycle of poems from Scottish poet Carol Anne Duffy’s wry book of the […]
FRINGE 2019: 3 more MASTERS
Crescendo! Stage 12 (Varscona Theatre) This Plain Jane Theatre (and Chorus Productions) show wins this year’s award for the most agreeable surprise. The premise, as outlined in the program, didn’t show great promise – but the result is one of the most genuinely enjoyable experiences of the week. Crescendo! is not only a new musical, […]
