Bridges of Madison County Discussion

With shows April 12th and 13th at the CSpace Theatre in Calgary, Kyle sits down with Nightingale Arts Collective founders and performers in the production, Melissa Jackson and Meaghan Schulz to discuss what this production is all about and how it is being brought to life by this new theatre group.

Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6243302

About the Show: Nightingale Arts Collective is excited to announce its first production, the Tony Award-winning musical The Bridges of Madison County, in concert. It is being held at cSPACE Studio Theatre on April 12 and 13th, doors open at 6:00 pm and show starts at 7:00 pm. Arrangements and Direction by John Goulart. Starring Stuart Howe, Meaghan Schulz, Kal Macdonald, Melissa Jackson, Ainsley Soutiere, Val Hudson and Paul Lloyd. Narration by Colin Martin. Come along on the emotional four-day love story between the characters Robert and Francesca as they sing the popular uplifting songs Falling into You, To Build a Home, One Second and a Million Miles and the fun and folksy State Road 21.

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Friday, April 5, 2024

Running April 5th through the 13th at the Pumphouse in Calgary, Kyle reviews Misfit Theatre's production of The Rocky Horror Show.

The production: https://www.morpheustheatre.ca/?portfolio=the-rocky-horror-show

Tickets: https://tickets.morpheustheatre.ca/

About the Show: Join Misfit Theatre YYC and Morpheus Theatre as we take you on a science-fiction, double feature journey through Richard O’Brien’s iconic rock-n-roll musical. A hilarious, campy, and thrilling tribute to the sci-fi and horror B films from the golden age of Hollywood to the 1960s, “The Rocky Horror Show” tells the tale of a recently engaged couple and their wild misadventure. While on their way to visit an old friend, they find themselves with a flat tire and nowhere to go in the middle of a stormy night, until they find an old castle seemingly in the middle of nowhere. What starts as a trip to ask for help, turns into a topsy-turvy evening of the strangest events where they are subjected to bizarre whims at the hand of a fabulously dressed mad scientist and his servants. Will our intrepid couple make it out unscathed, or will the darkness completely transform them?

Marriage: A Demolition Discussion

Opening April 12th and running through the 21st at the Cochrane Ranchehouse Theatre in Cochrane, Kyle sits down with performers Zoe Farrell, Penny Farrell and Geoffrey Patterson to discuss what it takes to bring this production to life as a four person production.

Tickets: https://www.takeabow.ca/tickets-2024

Wayne and Julie embark on that emotional roller-coaster ride known as “renovating the kitchen” when they probably should be renovating their marriage instead. Their contractors are a twenty-something couple with issues of their own. A hilarious new play that looks at renovation addiction, the friction between baby-boomers and millennials, and the nature of lifelong commitment in marriage… and in kitchen cabinet choices. This show contains mature subject matter and is recommended for ages 16+

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Friday, March 29, 2024

Running March 22 through March 30, 2024 at the Beddington Theatre Arts Centre in Calgary, Kyle reviews FRC's production of The Sondheim Musical Revue.

The production: https://www.frontrowcentre.ca/show/20232024/SondheimTributeRevue

The Stephen Sondheim Society notes that Sondheim was "widely acknowledged as the most innovative, most influential and most important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history. For more than 50 years, he has set an unsurpassed standard of brilliance and artistic integrity in musical theatre. His accolades include an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, multiple Drama Desk awards and a Pulitzer Prize."

Join us in celebrating the work of the incomparable Stephen Sondheim.

Rocky Horror Show Discussion

Opening April 5th and running through April 13th at the Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary, Kyle sits down with Director Krista Willott and Musical Director Donna Pearson for a discussion on the creation of a new Musical Theatre company and their reasons for bringing The Rocky Horror Show to the stage as their first production.

Tickets: https://tickets.morpheustheatre.ca/TheatreManager/160/online?event=0

About the Show: A hilarious, campy, and thrilling tribute to the sci-fi and horror B films from the golden age of Hollywood to the 1960s, “The Rocky Horror Show” tells the tale of a recently engaged couple and their wild misadventures!

March 16, 2024

Running March 14-16 at the Glenmore Christian Academy in Calgary, Kyle reviews Smalltime Theatre's production of Matilda Jr.

Tickets: https://smalltimetheatre.shop/tickets/matilda-jr/

Matilda has astonishing wit, intelligence... and special powers! She's unloved by her cruel parents but impresses her schoolteacher, the highly loveable Miss Honey. Matilda's school life isn't completely smooth sailing, however – the school's mean headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, hates children and just loves thinking up new punishments for those who don't abide by her rules. But Matilda has courage and cleverness in equal amounts, and could be the school pupils' saving grace!

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Sondheim Tribute Revue Discussion

Running March 22nd through 30th at the Beddington Centre for the Arts, Kyle sits down with director Gavin Liam Logan for Front Row Centre Players production of the Sondheim Tribute Revue.

Tickets: https://www.artscommons.ca/whats-on/sondheim-tribute-revue

Hydrogen and Helium by Gavin Liam Logan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUlUEcBsPkQ

The Stephen Sondheim Society notes that Sondheim was "widely acknowledged as the most innovative, most influential and most important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history. For more than 50 years, he has set an unsurpassed standard of brilliance and artistic integrity in musical theatre. His accolades include an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, multiple Drama Desk awards and a Pulitzer Prize."

Join us in celebrating the work of the incomparable Stephen Sondheim.

March 15, 2024

Running March 15 through March 23rd at the Lantern Church in Inglewood, Kyle reviews Imagine Theatre's production of The Magician's Nephew.

Tickets: https://tickets.morpheustheatre.ca/TheatreManager/160/tmEvent/tmEvent998.html

About the Show: Before there was the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, there was Polly, Digory, and the rings. When sinister Uncle Andrew tricks the children into testing his magical theory about travelling to another world, Polly and Digory find themselves caught up in a series of events that not even Uncle Andrew himself could have predicted. There are guinea pigs, great forces of good and evil, and magical apples with the potential to heal sick mothers. Imagine Theatre invites you to join us as we travel back into C. S. Lewis well loved book series, and explore how all the comings and goings between our world and the land of Narnia first began.

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The Magician's Nephew Discussion

Opening March 15th through March 23rd, Kyle sits down with Harold Squire and Charlotte Loeppky, co-directors of Imagine Theatre's forthcoming production to talk about how one goes about adapting a beloved children's novel for the stage.

Tickets: https://tickets.morpheustheatre.ca/TheatreManager/160/tmEvent/tmEvent998.html

About the Show: Before there was the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, there was Polly, Digory, and the rings. When sinister Uncle Andrew tricks the children into testing his magical theory about travelling to another world, Polly and Digory find themselves caught up in a series of events that not even Uncle Andrew himself could have predicted. There are guinea pigs, great forces of good and evil, and magical apples with the potential to heal sick mothers. Imagine Theatre invites you to join us as we travel back into C. S. Lewis well loved book series, and explore how all the comings and goings between our world and the land of Narnia first began.

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Seagulls Discussion

Opening February 13 through 17th, sadly too late now for this interview, Kyle sat down with Director Sally Čačić and Lead Performer, Martina Laird-Westib to discuss what Night Ducks is all about as a theatre company and what Seagulls, the production, was like.

The Ghost Next Door Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ghost-next-door/id1718413223

Night Ducks presents “Seagulls” by Caryl Churchill — onboard the Elbow Entertainment River Cruise for Charity for the Short-Sighted Seagulls Awareness Association with Captain Logan Lawrence, featuring Telekinesis Wonder Valery and her Manager Di! Oh — and some guy called Cliff. Join us for a 1-hour of rollicking absurdist comedy, on board the Elbow River Entertainment “cruise” for a play within a play as we perform Seagulls by Caryl Churchill… cruise ship style!

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