End of the Earth
Edmonton Prospects home opener on May 25! NEXT COMIC: Bill Benson watches TV so you don’t have to: Next: Omigod! Bob the Angry Flower is [REDACTED]:
Grindstone on the nose! Comedy fest an off-Whyte hit
The Grindstone Comedy Theatre & Bistro is a lively little off-Whyte oasis in the otherwise boring squalor of the 81st Avenue area east of 102 Street – in the fringe of the Ritchie neighbourhood that wouldn’t be out of place in Stettler. But with this weekend’s inaugural Grindstone Comedy Festival, it’s clear this club is […]
REVIEW: Life is a Cabaret, old chum!
Edmonton’s ambitious ELOPE Musical Theatre company is attempting to take us back to 1930s Germany in a new production of the classic musical Cabaret. As we enter the Westbury Theatre in the ATB Financial Arts Barns – where the show plays until May 11 – we immediately find ourselves in the “Kit Kat Club,” a […]
LISTEN HERE: Dancing to Joni Mitchell
Hear music from Alberta Ballet’s The Fiddle & The Drum Joni Mitchell was the first pop star that Canadian ballet-meister Jean Grand-Maitre pitched to do a ballet. Jean has since done so-called “portrait” ballets about Elton John, Sarah McLachlan, Gordon Lightfoot, k.d. lang, and The Tragically Hip – but Joni was the first. Ten […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Time for a Fireball now! NEXT COMIC: Fire of a different sort in a vintage End of the Earth: Next: What’s with all the geese in Bill Benson?
Bill Benson
Also: HONK! NEXT COMIC: Seems to be some kind of Game of Thrones reference in Bob the Angry Flower: Next: Wildrose Sloth appears in classic 2015 End of the Earth comic:
End of the Earth
Wildrose Sloth works slowly. Next Comic: It’s animal day! Geese run amok in Bill Benson: Bob the Angry Flower deals 1d4+1 damage:
REVIEW: Literary mash-up a farce to be reckoned with at the Varscona Theatre
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a 2012 comedy written by Christopher Durang. His playful sense of humour can be seen in such hits as Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Beyond Therapy and The Idiot Karamazov. He also has written serious plays on child abuse, Roman Catholic dogma and homosexuality. […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Godsmack, Tea Party, Sweater Kittens!
Godsmack is smack dab in the middle of a North American tour that lands Friday night at Rogers Place. The Massachusetts quartet, founded in 1995, has found their sound labelled a few different things – certainly in the metal category, but they’ve also been described as nu-metal, post-grunge, and alt-metal. Whatever you call them, they […]
REVIEW: Banned in Iran, Nassim an experimental trip at the Citadel
Nassim Soleimanpour is something of a world-wide theatrical phenomenon. The Iranian playwright now has several international hits to his credit. Alas, his own country has never seen his work – he’s banned back home. His latest play, simply titled Nassim, has played in many venues including both the West End and Off-Broadway – where it […]
Oprah returns to Edmonton in June
The last time Oprah Winfrey was in Edmonton someone gave her a “truck nuts” purse as a gift when she came on the stage. For those who don’t know: Truck nuts are known to locals as a decorative item you hang on your trailer hitch to resemble testicles. It’s a thing. Oprah, meanwhile, is one […]
Bob the Angry Flower
All modern movies are exactly the same. NEXT COMIC: The Spirit of Prince evoked in End of the Earth: BILL BENSON has some ‘spoilers’ for you: