The Empress and the Prime Minister a gripping gay docu-drama
Darrin Hagen refuses to be catalogued. The actor, playwright, sound designer, composer and director has energized our theatre scene since his first play The Edmonton Queen premiered at the 1996 Fringe. Although he may be associated with gay theatre, his subject matters have ranged through a bewildering number of topics – and along the way […]
LIVE MUSIC: Metric system catching on
Metric brings their Art of Doubt tour to Edmonton this Sunday night at the Edmonton Convention Centre. The Toronto rockers, led by the incredible voice of Emily Haines, are no stranger to Edmonton of course, and it’s no surprise the itinerary for their newest release includes our fair city. The band have been regulars on […]
Dynamic doper duo Cheech & Chong bring O Cannabis to Edmonton
We never thought we’d live to see the day when freakin’ Tommy Chong would get to perform in his home province (he grew up in Calgary) – where weed would one day be legal! What a glorious time to be alive. He’s back with his American partner Cheech Marin for what is expected to be […]
REVIEW: Alan Parsons Live Project a mixed bag of magic in Edmonton
To be more famous for a throwaway joke in an Austin Powers movie than for recent music must be galling to such titans of progressive pop as … The Alan Parsons Project! Mwa, ha, ha, ha! Besides, it’s the Alan Parsons Live Project now – so named to distance itself from the original British 1980s […]
THEATRE PEOPLE: Darrin Hagen: ‘The man I am is because of the woman I was’
There was no Gay-Straight Alliance at Darrin Hagen’s high school in Rocky Mountain House in the late ‘70s – but there was a drama club. He was the only boy in the group. “It was no problem to find an all girl play and cast me in drag,” Hagen says. “Nobody seemed to mind – […]
Bob the Angry Flower
If you reveal a cover-up is it even a cover-up anymore? NEXT comic: You can sleep safe with #YEGvengers keeping watch in End of the Earth: Next: Bill Benson endorses Mr. White P. Walker for Alberta Premier:
Bill Benson
Well, we know who Bill’s voting for! NEXT COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower reveals cover-up: Next: Edmonton’s greatest superheroes in End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
Who needs The Avengers when you have the #YEGvengers? Next comic: Bill Benson makes a strong endorsement! Now what is Bob the Angry Flower hiding?
REVIEW: Alice in Chains pleases several generations with grunge metal mayhem
You can’t argue the success that Alice In Chains has enjoyed of late – with the group’s latest album Rainier Fog earning a Grammy nomination, and summit positions on the Billboard and iTunes charts. But to more discerning ears, how a band that earned much of its notoriety in the grunge-fueled 1990s could still be […]
Morrissey postpones Edmonton to October
Local reaction was swift to Saturday’s announcement that Morrissey’s April 18 concert in at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton has been postponed to October – “WOW, didn’t see that coming!” And then sarcastic people felt bad – because this was actually due to a “medical emergency.” The promoter passed on this note: “Due to a […]
Sister Act fills Mayfield pews with wimple-ful whopper of soul and comedy
The musical Sister Act is no Come From Away – but it is the kind of durable example of song and dance entertainment that Broadway is famous for. The musical is taken from the smash 1992 Whoopi Goldberg movie with songs added by Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, etc.), lyrics by […]
FUN HOME A DARK HOME: Local cast shines in Varscona musical
“You can’t go home again,” said author Thomas Wolfe. Perhaps you can physically go back – but the old Regent Theatre where you first saw Casablanca and Robin Hood is now a strip mall. You can’t build forts any more in Brown’s Fields out back – they don’t exist. And memories of Mom and Dad […]
