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Charles Presents: Moby Alpha: Review
3.5 stars Stage 4, Academy at King Edward Moby Dick is reimagined in space (where nobody can hear you applaud), where the crew of the Pequod (pronounced “peckwood”) are out harvesting space energy....
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Gibberish: Review
4.5 stars Stage 29, Varscona Hotel, Thomas Bennett Room When you take your seat at the Varscona Hotel, you’ll notice Chris Gibbs right away. He’s the bulge behind the curtains directly in front of you....
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NEIGHBORS: Review
4.5 stars Stage 11, PCL Studio A beautiful allegory about tolerance and peace, Neighbors had me hooked from the moment the first of our two clownish gentlemen appeared on stage. He is refined, orderly,...
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Mike Delamont: Husky Panda: Review
3 stars Stage 42, La Cite Francophone Auditorium West Coast comic Mike Delamont makes no bones about his Fringe performance: “There will be no theatre of any kind here this evening.” Instead, the 2013...
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Promise and Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen: Review
4.5 stars Stage 5, King Edward School How can your curiosity NOT be piqued by a show that bills itself as a one-woman Jane Austen musical? New Zealander Penny Ashton magnificently pulls it off with...
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Gordon’s Big Bald Head: THE ILLUMINAUGHTY: Review
5 stars Stage 12, Varscona Theatre Jacob Banigan, Chris Craddock and Mark Meer are the three-headed Wayne Gretzky of the improv world. They’re as good at what they do as anyone else on the entire...
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The Wrong Show: Review
3.5 stars Stage 32, Billiard Club The Wrong Show is amateur, juvenile and, well, a pretty damn funny sketch comedy. It captures in a bottle those enviable early-day moments of explosive comedy-making...
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Hip. Bang! Improv: Review
3.5 stars Stage 22, Wunderbar By its very nature, an improv show can never be the same twice. I’m not sure if it’s in their nature, but the night I saw Vancouver’s Hip, Bang! Improv, Tom Hill and Devin...
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Scratch: Review
3.5 stars Stage 18, Princess Theatre Reliably pornographic, Kevin Gillese and Arlen Konopaki are back from Atlanta, Ga. and NYU for their annual appearance on the fertile soil that made them successful...
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Lorax Improv: Review
2 stars Stage 22, Wunderbar Improv usually takes the form of a hair-raising calamity of a tale involving nonsensical storylines and random digressions, but Lorax Improv is especially chaotic. A little...
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Daniel MacIvor, his best friend, and a new comedy at Shadow
“Want to meet them? Go see,” says Daniel MacIvor encouragingly to his companion Buddy, pointing out the locals. They’re a long way from home, these two Maritimers, as they walk through Calgary’s river...
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Shadow Theatre's Best Brothers brings the funny to the funeral
In the engaging comedy that launches Shadow Theatre’s new season, the most riotous scenes of all involve death and funeral arrangements. And the most heartwarming happen in a dog park. Death? Funeral?...
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We're invited for cocktails, at Pam's: signature Teatro comedy returns
Three decades ago, in a firehall-turned-theatre that had become the headquarters of a monstrously expanding festival called the Fringe, Edmonton audiences suddenly found themselves at a classic ’60s...
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Review: Cocktails at Pam's is back, in intoxicating form
“Mirth! Mirth!” cries Pam, the perfect hostess for whom the conjoined sounds of gaiety, chatter, and the clinking of glasses are the elixir of life. As we’ve re-discovered regularly since 1986, there...
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Fringe review: FRAZ vs. the Future
He suddenly appears onstage in a cheap army jumpsuit like Kyle Reese materializing in 1984 at the beginning of The Terminator. But Vancouver comic Fraz Wiest hasn’t jumped back in time to save a...
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Bust debuts at Theatre Network with dark comedic tale of Fort McMurray
There are significant challenges for creative folks writing off the news. For playwright Matthew Mackenzie, the brain behind Bust — a tale of Fort McMurray after the fire that debuts tonight at Theatre...
View ArticleThe Comic Strippers poke fun at peelers in Meyer Horowitz show June 8
If you are hoping for, but possibly also dreading, the appearance (on stage) of men in a state of nature, fuss no more. The Comic Strippers, appearing Friday, June 8, at 8 p.m. at the Meyer Horowitz...
View ArticleNightseeker brings Fubar's beer-shotgunning star to Starlite
Dean Murdoch has an epic and important story to tell, and the only proper way to do it is in the form of a concept album. Good thing the co-creator (real name: Paul Spence) of the cult mockumentary...
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10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Matara, Royal Bison and Ed the Sock
Matara The real-life saga of Lucy the Elephant and her life at the Edmonton Valley Zoo is the basis behind Matara, playing at the Backstage Theatre until Dec. 8. Originally produced as part of Workshop...
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10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Roma, Mystery Science Salon, and Oil...
Godfrey Remember that guy you kept seeing pop up in such films as Zoolander, Johnson Family Vacation, and Soul Plane? Why, that was Godfrey C. Danchimah, Jr., and not only is he a presence in many...
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