META-FRINGE – Three thumbs up for new David Belke play Forsooth, My Lovely

Posted on August 15, 2011 By Staff Theatre

Now we have Vue Weekly magazine to add to our critical conflations of the Edmonton International Fringe Festival – creating a Frankensteinian meta-critic with three thumbs. Enjoy the best of the best, and if you’re into that sort of thing, the worst of the worst. THREE THUMBS UP FORSOOTH MY LOVELY, BYOV 29 (mixture of […]

META-FRINGE: Elephant and Scarlet woman feel the love

Posted on August 14, 2011 By Staff Theatre

Catch Day Three Meta-reviews here: In Gig City’s daily meta-fringe, we’re only interested in meta-mutilating the published reviews of Fringe plays that are either really, really great … or blow it right out of the ass. The vast middle ground of differing critical opinions on so many different types of live theatre at this event […]

META-FRINGE: Raves for Baby Redboots’ Revenge and A Different Woman

Posted on August 13, 2011 By Staff Theatre

Catch Reviews from Day one and Two here We are only interested in meta-mutilating the published reviews of Fringe plays that are either really, really great … or blow it right out of the ass. The vast middle ground of differing critical opinions on so many different types of live theatre at this event proves […]

META-REVIEW: Two thumbs up at the Fringe, more thumbs to come

Posted on August 11, 2011 By Staff Theatre

Edmonton’s two top theatre critics – the Edmonton Journal’s Liz Nicholls and the Edmonton Sun’s Colin Maclean – have already reviewed a wad of plays they saw at the Saskatoon Fringe, which are soon to play in Edmonton, so close enough. Here is a meta-critical, Frankensteinian summation of what they’ve both seen so far (see […]

PREVIEW: Hedwig and the (not so) angry Fringe

Posted on August 11, 2011 By Chad Huculak Theatre

Seeing Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Garneau Theatre 10 years ago was a life-changing experience for Antonio Bavaro. The actor/activist/drag queen will live out a dream at this year’s Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival when he takes the lead role in a theatre production of the edgy glam-rock musical. “This movie shaped our lives […]

Fringe actors get their ‘one-minutes’ of fame at press launch

Posted on August 2, 2011 By Mike Ross Front Slider, Theatre

The funniest thing about the new fangled Fringe media free-for-all was watching the expressions on the faces of the actors who got cut off in mid-line with the ominous “THANK YOU!” from the side of the stage. Your minute is up. What? We’re done? Not so much as a “we’ll call you?” How exciting. It […]

Stewart Lemoine’s pulp fiction for the stage – now in book form!

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 […]

Live to improvise, improvise to live at Improvaganza

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 […]

True Love Lies tops Sterling Awards nominations

Posted on June 7, 2011 By Albert Smith The Latest, Theatre

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 […]

THEATRE: Love Song a rom-com for the lonely man

Posted on May 25, 2011 By Albert Smith Culture, Front Slider, Theatre

Perhaps you or someone you know was once in danger of becoming … chronically single. You’d get set in your ways, get a cat, maybe surf for porn a bit too much for your own good and often have dinner at the houses of friends who now all seem to come in pairs. They’d occasionally […]

Fringe Festival unveils 2011 theme – Fringeopolis!

Posted on May 9, 2011 By Adrian Lackey The Latest, Theatre

“All great works of art come from the Metropolis,” Edmonton Fringe Festival Executive Director Julian Mayne quoted American poet Ezra Pound before introducing this year’s Fringe Festival title at a press conference today – Fringeopolis. The motif on the poster that was unveiled is a definite homage to the 1926 Fritz Lang futuristic dystopian movie […]

Hot Picks, March 3

Posted on March 3, 2011 By Mike Ross The Latest

The trick to a “tragic comedy” is to figure out which part is the tragedy and which part is the comedy. Sometimes they try to fool you. Here’s the premise for Trent Wilkie’s Gargamel, on stage at the Varscona Theatre tonight at 7:30 pm. A man loses his girlfriend in a tragic car accident which also leaves […]

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