REVIEW: Area performance artists get on the air with Radio Saturn

Posted on May 21, 2012 By Adrian Lackey Music, The Latest, Theatre

All planets with magnetic fields emit radio waves – and so it’s only natural that the musicians of the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) would want to play around with them. Such was the premise of an unusual public recording session and performance art happening called The Saturn Sessions, which took place May 19 in […]

WHAT’S SO FUNNY: Mike Dambra’s sperm cures cancer

Posted on May 17, 2012 By Mike Ross Comedy, Front Slider, Theatre

Mike Dambra has become famous for, nay, almost dependent upon, a joke so politically incorrect it can cause even insensitive boors to swoon in shock – a routine about retards. That’s right: Retards. Being from New York is his excuse for using the word “retard” instead of “special needs” or some such – he uses […]

Elton John comes full circle for area ballet star in Love Lies Bleeding

Posted on May 8, 2012 By Mike Ross Music, Theatre

Consider the Six Degrees of Elton John in Alberta Ballet’s production of Love Lies Bleeding, at the Jubilee Auditorium Thursday through Saturday. The ballet is based upon the life and music of Elton John, who is being played by dancer Kelley McKinlay, who grew up in Fort Saskatchewan, where he did not hang out with […]

THEATRE REVIEW: Daniel MacIvor’s In On It is slightly out of it

Posted on May 5, 2012 By Adrian Lackey Front Slider, Theatre

In the play within a play that is Daniel MacIvor’s “In On It,” the playwright is messing with our heads. It won’t insult your intelligence – but it will go out of its way to mock same, while aiming for an audience smart enough to know the difference. In On It plays at Theatre Network’s […]

REVIEW: Comedy on slow boil in understated new Lemoine, The Adulteress

Posted on April 28, 2012 By Adrian Lackey Front Slider, Theatre

With all the elements Stewart Lemoine has put into his latest play The Adulteress – an outspoken woman who lost her eye in an office accident, an awkward meeting between two prospective tenants who both want the same room, a landlord caught in the middle – you’d think we’d have another rip-snorter on our hands. […]

Performance poet Jem Rolls exists only in the moment

Posted on April 23, 2012 By Mike Ross Comedy, Front Slider, Lit, Theatre

The chief difference between stand-up comedy and performance poetry, according to noted performance poet Jem Rolls, is that “I don’t have to be funny all the time.” So it’s more relaxing for the audience if they don’t expect a punch-line every single time, he adds, and even better, “It’s more relaxing for me.” Appearing Friday […]

THEATRE: The Adulteress marks play No. 70 for Stewart Lemoine

Posted on April 22, 2012 By Adrian Lackey The Latest, Theatre

Stewart Lemoine has written more plays than the average Albertan will see in his or her lifetime – a lot more. He’s one of our most prolific playwrights, not just in Edmonton, but anywhere in the world. The world premiere of the The Adulteress Thursday at the Varscona Theatre makes play No. 70, for those […]

Edmonton Opera stages Beethoven’s first, last, only opera Fidelio

Posted on April 21, 2012 By Mike Ross Front Slider, Music, Theatre

It’s fun to imagine what Ludwig Van Beethoven was like. There are so many depictions, caricatures and stories about this frowning old composer – some of it must be true. Ornery, given to wild experimentation, perfectionist, did great work and knew it, enjoyed his fame, went deaf, music was used to torture a criminal in […]

REVIEW: A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a love most supreme

Posted on April 14, 2012 By Adrian Lackey Theatre

It must have been vexing for the groundlings who first witnessed A Midsummer Night’s Dream and its plots, tri-pronged: One, planned nuptials and entanglements of desire; two, a fantasia in the forest; three, rehearsals for a play, doomed to go wrong. A plethora of anachronisms, a herd of non-sequiturs made this play a task to […]

Hey Ladies! Imagine The View on acid – and booze

Posted on April 12, 2012 By Adrian Lackey Comedy, Theatre

Yup, it’s that time of the month. At least it is for Davina Stewart, Cathleen Rootsaert and Leona Brausen – hostesses of the monthly comedy-variety show Hey Ladies! At the Roxy Theatre this Friday night, it’s a throwback to those afternoon hostess shows you used to watch on TV with your mom before you were […]

WHAT’S SO FUNNY: Rob Schneider, Dave Foley return to comedy stage

Posted on April 12, 2012 By Albert Smith Comedy, Theatre

The trick to enjoying Rob Schneider movies is to have low expectations – and in that light, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo is a comedy classic. To a lesser extent, so is Grown Ups. Conversely, when the Saturday Night Live star returns to the stage-up comedy stage from whence he came – Friday night at the […]

Oldest English story a monstrous undertaking in Beowulf the King

Posted on April 9, 2012 By Mike Ross Front Slider, Theatre

Consider that the oldest story ever written in (Old) English is about a terrible monster and the monster’s even more terrible monster mother, who, after wreaking much destruction and death, are defeated by a magic sword-wielding fighter who is eventually killed by a dragon. You could make a couple of conclusions: 1. Man, we’re a […]

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