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Companie Marie Chouinard blends visual arts and movement for the Fluid Festival
Marie Chouinard is a choreographer who hails from Montreal and is famous for her dance works on a national and international scale. “She’s been around for 30 years. She’s had her own vision. She has...
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Cowtown Opera puts modern spin on La Boheme
New York City Opera filed for bankruptcy at the beginning of the month and that loss has been felt quite deeply by artists working within the field. “Whenever I went to New York, it was a highlight,”...
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Faces of the Arts: Haysam Kadri
Haysam Kadri is busy. When he’s not working as the Artistic Producer of the Shakespeare Company, he’s working as the Education Coordinator of Shakespeare in the Park, freelancing in fight direction for...
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Faces of the Arts: Michelle Minke
In the early days when Michelle Minke was coming back to Calgary, she was thinking “what is a singer supposed to do with their life? Because you can’t make any money.” But Minke is making it work in...
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Faces of the Arts: Neil Fleming
Neil Fleming fell into playwriting. While in Vancouver, some of his friends informed him that they were putting on a play in the Vancouver Fringe. And he was writing it. “I only had about ten pages...
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Theatre reading of “8″ benefits queer youth
On Saturday night there will be a staged read of ’8,’ Dustin Lance Black’s documentary play chronicling the US federal lawsuit for marriage equality. The event is a benefit for Camp fYrefly, a retreat...
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Faces of the Arts: Kyall Rakoz
Calgary theatre artist Kyall Rakoz first enrolled into biology program at the University of Calgary, and didn’t actually think of acting as a career choice. “I liked drama in high school,” Rakoz...
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Ravi Jain’s ‘A Brimful of Asha’ gives a glimpse into being stuck between...
The first time that Asha Jain got on stage in Toronto to workshop A Brimful of Asha, she said: “I don’t even know what I’m doing here, because I hate theatre. Seriously, what are you doing here? Don’t...
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Building the set for Calgary Opera’s The Flying Dutchman
John Bouman, the head carpenter at Calgary Opera built the set for The Flying Dutchman, which opens tomorrow, upside down. “The set is on air casters, so that it floats, like it’s on wheels and you can...
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Improvising a musical sountrack
“If I was being paid any kind of money for this, this would be the night I would work the most for that money,” Cam Ascroft says about the upcoming Valentine’s Day musical episode of Dirty Laundry. He...
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Faces of the Arts: Julie Orton
Rebecca Northan stated at the Mayor’s Lunch that an actor or artist at the top of their game, earning as much as they can earn, only takes in $20,000 a year. Julie Orton mentioned this when I caught up...
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Mamma Mia! Here it comes again (and again, and again) to Calgary
“Everybody knows ABBA’s music, people come and see this show 2, 3, 4 times,” Company Manager of Mamma Mia! PD Seltzer says. And it’s true. Mamma Mia! is celebrating 5,000 performance on Broadway and...
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A flurry of backstage costume changes will keep Calgary Opera’s summer...
Calgary Opera’s Opera in the Village is back with a full production of Candide and costume designer Rhonda Borneman has been hard at work designing the threads that the singers will be putting on (and...
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