REVIEW: Surreal Middletown sees characters askew in search of a plot
Will Eno is an American playwright whose works have gained some notoriety in the past decade or so – winning awards, attracting and often dumbfounding audiences. He takes ordinary situations and runs them through his cracked view of life. As a small American town in Middletown, currently in production from the U of A’s Studio […]
REVIEW: Colin James shows effortless blues-rock mastery in Edmonton
It’s been more than 30 years since Colin James made his debut – and he still remains a musical mainstay in Canada with his ability to blend gritty blues with hook-happy mainstream rock. It’s a schtick that’s worked well enough for him to pack the Jubilee Auditorium with 2,700 faithful fans on Thursday night. When […]
LISTEN HERE: Talltale unbelievable
EXCLUSIVE SNEAK SONIC PEEK Hear electro-pop artist’s new Japan-inspired single before official release Talltale – the stage name of Edmonton pop-electronic artist Tatiana Zagorac, because she is tall – was so inspired by her trip to Japan that she made a whole album out of it: Japanese Fever Dream, being released worldwide Friday, March […]
THEATRE PEOPLE: Jesse Lipscombe running race
Jesse Lipscombe is perfect for the Citadel Theatre’s latest madcap adventure – two political comedies running simultaneously in two different theatres inside the building, one in the Maclab, one in The Club on the third floor, with the same characters played by the same actors – who have to literally run up and down the […]
Interstellar Rodeo 2019 announces star-studded line-up
Son of a bitch, give me a drink! Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats are returning to Edmonton. The folk hero who fortunately revealed a lot more depth than his 2015 hit Son of a Bitch is one of the headliners for the eighth annual Interstellar Rodeo, happening July 26-28 in Hawrelak Park. These guys […]
REVIEW: Michelle Obama thrills Edmonton fans with familiar inspirations
The numbers are in! Michelle Obama is the coolest First Lady in American history – a fact she made plain before a crowd of thousands of women in Rogers Place on Friday night. Biggest book tour ever. Certainly Eleanor Roosevelt is in the running for coolest wife of an American president. So is Abigail Fillmore. […]
Lungs filled with doom in dark comedy
The Shadow Theatre production of Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs was supposed to open on March 13. But then the production blew up, losing its Montreal-based director and two local stars. When we finally got to see the show on Friday March 22, the directing credit was split between the assistant director Emma Houghton and Shadow Artistic […]
MacEwan cast aces Broadway classic
So, there’s this Damon Runyon guy, an ink-stained sports scribe crankin’ it in the Big Apple of the 1930s. When he’s not covering the likes of Babe Ruth or Jack Dempsey, six’ll get ya’ five, his battered Smith Corona is churning out tales of Nathan Detroit, Harry the Horse, Nicely Nicely Johnson, Good Time Charlie […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: PUP socks!
Next Wednesday, March 27, the venerable Starlite Room hosts a sold out show with the Toronto punk rock quartet PUP. Originally going under the name Topanga, the brood’s eponymous debut album was released in 2014 after signing with Hollerado’s label, Royal Mountain Records, and produced by Dave Schiffman (Rage Against the Machine, Weezer). It was […]
THEATRE PEOPLE: Fearless Dove takes a flying leap
A rock musician turning into an actor is rare enough in this town to be noteworthy. Consider the curious case of Dove Brown, longtime bassist for Jr. Gone Wild lately spotted on stage at the new Grindstone Comedy Theatre. He plays the Paul Shaffer to Dana Andersen’s Letterman in the improvised talk show Up Late […]
REVIEW: Anxieties speak louder than words in Small Mouth Sounds
Six distressed souls find their way to a silent spiritual retreat in upstate New York. They hope to find relief from their troubled lives – casting off the mental and emotional baggage they have picked up along the way. There, amongst the mosquitoes (and what sounds like a pack of ravening wolves and one pissed […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Streetheart survivors pay tribute to their fallen leader
Some classic rock bands get grief from fans for continuing under their old name after the loss of their lead singer. But put yourself in their shoes: You work hard your whole life, share all the good times, the bad, help make your band much more than the sum of its parts – and then […]
