EPCOR CENTRE facility equipment nearing end of useful life Calgary’s venerable performing arts facility, the EPCOR CENTRE, will enjoy a facelift thanks to $250,000 from Ottawa’s Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund. The contribution was announced Friday by Western Economic Diversification. It will support a number of upgrades to aging equipment maintained by EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts, which [...]
Third Street Theatre play examines life of trans woman who survived Nazi Germany By Krista Sylvester Even heroes have flaws – that’s what Third Street Theatre wants to convey as it brings to life a Pulitzer Prize winning play on its 10th anniversary. Playwright Doug Wright’s one-man play, I Am My Own Wife, tells the spectacular [...]
Nothing seems to be getting done about Mount Royal University cuts to the arts On Friday I took part in the Lawson Lundell Celebrity Hors D’oeuvres event in support of Alberta Theatre Projects (ATP). The event pairs local celebrities like yours truly with local restaurants – this year I was with Taste, a good restaurant [...]
Mount Royal University administrators gut theatre department We learn with some dismay that the fresh-faced, newly minted Mount Royal University, elevated a few years ago from its low and pedestrian college status, has decided to take the coward’s way out in addressing budget cuts, cutting and slashing and hacking its performative arts programs, namely music [...]
Circumstances that made the Auburn Saloon in Calgary possible are gone Welcome back to my cyberturf on the Beacon News, and thanks to all who sent their kind regards about part 1 of this column on Facebook. And so back to the Requiem for the Auburn Saloon. As I mentioned, from the time I arrived in [...]
Canadian Badlands Passion Play celebrates its 20th season this year For the first time in five seasons, Jesus will be played by an actor from Red Deer in the Canadian Badlands Passion Play. Red Deer actor Aaron Krogman is replacing former cast member Steve Waldschmidt. “Since the 2008 season, Steve Waldschmidt has been performing the [...]
Auburn Saloon in Calgary was an invaluable meeting place for the theatre community Calgary’s fabled theatre bar The Auburn Saloon has been evicted from its premises and it seems unlikely that it will rise again from the ashes any time soon. I am not here to bury the Auburn, I am here to sing its [...]
Third Street Theatre play runs from March 28-31 at Living Spirit United Church Calgary’s queer theatre company hopes to shed light on the issues faced by trans-identified individuals in an original play called This is How I Left. “This is How I Left is Third Street’s first production in its very first season, which is a [...]
Preview on Mar. 20 and opening night on Mar. 21 Sage Theatre presents Polygraph at the Joyce Doolittle Theatre (Pumphouse Theatres) from Mar. 20 to 30 at 8.00 p.m. from Tuesdays to Saturdays, and additional matinee performances on Mar. 24 and Mar. 30 at 2.00 p.m. There will be a $10 preview performance on Mar. [...]
