True Love Lies tops Sterling Awards nominations
There are a few theories we can form from reading the 2010-2011 nominations for the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards – the closest Edmonton gets to the Oscars for the live theatre scene. 1. The Citadel Theatre remains the king of local theatre. 2. One of our brightest playwrights is Brad Fraser, who hasn’t lived here […]
Little Women set to music at Citadel Theatre
Let us take you back to a time when the word “gay” meant something else than it does today, when four teenage sisters with lots of time on their hands only got into the kind of trouble that was suitable for a family audience. Continuing previews at the Citadel Theatre tonight and tomorrow before the […]
THEATRE: Brad Fraser’s wholesome family comedy
A promiscuous teenage girl gets a job at a local restaurant and discovers that her boss once had a homosexual love affair with her father. Do all of Brad Fraser’s plays have to have a gay theme? Short answer: No. But it sure sets the stage for a wholesome family comedy, doesn’t it? At the […]
THEATRE: All for one and one for all!
So there’s this young sword-fighter named d’Artagnan who goes to 17th Century Paris to seek his fortune, only to get embroiled in a tale of intrigue involving an evil Cardinal, an adulterous French queen, a deceitful countess, various dukes, lords, cutpurses, whoresons, comely wenches, dashing swashbucklers and … to HELL with all this historical exposition! […]
THE WEEK AHEAD: Cheese, with a side of ham and corn
Ladies and gentlemen: Cheese. Ham and cheese. Ham and cheese with a side of corn. Great. Now we’re all hungry for Julio Iglesias, the man whose picture you see before you, whose pose was obviously contrived to pre-emptively make fun of Julio Iglesias. Yes: I fully admit I am often seen as a hokey old […]
Edmonton non-profit benefits, but indie cinema firm left reeling
Citadel Theatre says it’s not worried about filling the void that will be left when Metro Cinema departs Zeidler Hall and heads south across the river to The Garneau in a few months, but the move has an unhappy ending for The Garneau’s soon-to-be displaced tenant. “For us, it was a dream come true and […]
She gave me water … and pity
I don’t know who he is, but his face rings a bell … he’s a dead ringer for his brother … not sure, but I got a hunch. That’s all the punchlines we can come up with about the three bell-ringing hunchback brothers who tragically fell out of the belltower window. Hunchback, at the Citadel Theatre through March […]
