THEATRE: Look up in the sky! It’s the new Belke!

Posted on March 16, 2011 By Adrian Lackey Theatre

Dateline: New York City, 1940 – The infant comic book industry is booming. Everyone wants to cash in on the Superman craze. A young man is hired by a demanding publisher to create a new superhero for a new comic book. He is teamed up with an artist who turns out to be his personal Lex Luthor. […]

Hot Picks, March 16: The Backstreet Boys of classical guitar

Posted on March 16, 2011 By Staff Theatre

The words “classical” and “guitar” together spells some pretty serious pickin’ – which is expected in abundance when the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet plays the Winspear Centre tonight. Just know that “pickin” is to classical guitar what fiddle is to fine violin playing. This Grammy-winning ensemble – called by some, OK, just us, “the Backstreet Boys […]

Hot Picks, March 7: Weird week ahead!

Posted on March 7, 2011 By Staff The Latest

We look forward to another week filled with weird and wonderful events in Edmonton – hot roller derby girls doing a play with Northern Light Theatre, elephants working for peanuts at the Shrine Circus, Steve-O from Jackass doing stand-up at the Comic Strip. Come to think of it, this week is a bit stranger than […]

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 […]

And the Oscar for best Oscar party goes to … THE VARSCONA THEATRE!

Posted on February 27, 2011 By Chad Huculak Theatre

Thank you, thank you very much. You like me! Right now, you like me! Do you turn to Star Magazine for world news? Do you cry every time Jennifer Aniston goes through a breakup? Is your idea of activism wearing a T-shirt that says “Lindsay Lohan is Innocent”? If you answered yes to any of […]

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