Posted on July 21, 2011
By Andrea Scharner
The Latest, Theatre
Back about 45 years ago, the slightly risque, slightly funky, mostly funny combo on display Saturday night at The Artery would have been called “working blue.” It was slightly derisive slang for “dirty,” which meant the same thing then as now. You just couldn’t say the word sex much, let alone something like “my humps, […]
Posted on July 20, 2011
By Chad Huculak
Front Slider, Theatre
If you’ve been meaning to scope out some local talent but never seem to have the time, get out to Avenue Theatre this week as local actors and visual artists join 27 local musical acts for the brand new theatre production Edmonton the Musical. It’s running at the north-side venue (9030 118 Ave.) Thursday through […]
Posted on July 12, 2011
By Albert Smith
Comedy, Culture, Front Slider, Theatre
Aside from props, the only difference between stand-up comedians and street performers is that one works inside and the other works outside. What could possibly go wrong? Rick Kunst is spending his summer outdoors. At the Edmonton International Street Performers Festival through July 17, the Florida-born comedian and his Canadian partner Dana Fadkin have an […]
Posted on July 6, 2011
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Culture, Family, Front Slider, Theatre
Jugglers! Tricksters! Clowns! Fools! But enough about the Harper government – the Edmonton International Street Performers Festival opens tomorrow! By fantastic coincidence, Cirque du Soleil’s Dralion plays through Sunday (July 10) at Rexall Place. This is the famous French-Canadian acrobatic circus that was started by – you guessed it – a street performer. What are […]
Posted on July 5, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, Front Slider, Lit, Theatre
New York in the ’50s, Switzerland in the ’30s, Monte Carlo in the ’20s, tea with a vaudeville star, champagne with the ambassador, a conga line at a wedding, a murder mystery at the symphony, a discussion of green peppers during a cocktail party – don’t ever accuse Stewart Lemoine of being stuck in the […]
Posted on July 1, 2011
By Staff
Family, Front Slider, Music, Theatre
When your entire town turns into one big party and choice paralysis turns to decision exhaustion, where do you turn for guidance? Right here, reader! It is our job as modern Internet journalists to be the proverbial “BS filters,” or to at least try to distil the vast clumps of Canada Day events happening throughout […]
Posted on June 30, 2011
By Staff
Theatre
Usually in Shakespeare, the less-reputable characters are the bloodsuckers. At the Freewill Shakespeare Fest this year? Well, it’s in Hawrelak Park, so you…(bzzz)…do the (thwack!) math on (smack!, damn skeeters!) that one. Oh, get over it. Bring bug juice to the shows that open tonight (Thursday, June 30) and runs to July 24, and revel […]
Posted on June 20, 2011
By Albert Smith
Comedy, Theatre
Once in a great while Edmonton is privileged to host one of the old-time stand-up comedians, a stubborn hold-out from the days of yore where men were men, women stayed in the kitchen where they belonged and show business was an honourable profession – not the cesspool of fart jokes it’s become today. Neil Hamburger […]
Posted on June 15, 2011
By Albert Smith
Comedy, Front Slider, Theatre
To be willing to “fail happily” is one of the foundations of comedy improv – and also a happy life. When you truly shed your ego in the manner of the Buddhists, even death becomes OK. Cue the sound of one hand clapping. This may all seem too deep for Rapidfire Theatre’s Improvaganza festival, running […]
Posted on June 13, 2011
By Adrian Lackey
The Latest, Theatre
There are few odder sights than a performance of Cirque Du Soleil in full flight and fewer odder success stories. When Le Cirque rolls into E-Town in July for its performance of of its new show Dralion at Rexall Place, it won’t be quite the rare spectacle a Cirque performance used to be, back in […]
Posted on June 9, 2011
By LH Thomson
Culture, The Latest, Theatre
Usually in Shakespeare, the less-reputable characters are the bloodsuckers. At the Freewill Shakespeare Fest this year? Well, it’s in Hawrelak Park, so you…(bzzz)…do the (thwack!) math on (smack!, damn skeeters!) that one. Oh, get over it. Bring bug juice to the shows from June 30 to July 24 and revel in the one reason good […]
Posted on June 9, 2011
By Staff
Comedy, Culture, Front Slider, Theatre, TV and Radio
We’ve crunched the numbers and come to a startling conclusion that most people knew already – Edmonton is a funny city. The nominations for the Canadian Comedy Awards that came out June 8 revealed a disproportionate weight of local comic talent, largely thanks to a core group of improvisers and the locally-produced television show CAUTION: […]
