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Stage West’s production of ‘Chapter 2’ is lovely

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Neil Simon is a famous playwright, who is known for The Odd Couple and his play Chapter 2 is running at Stage West right now. The play premiered on Broadway in 1977, and ran for 857 performances. Simon wrote the play as a tribute to his second wife, Marsha Mason. It is obvious how dated […]

Shakespeare and The Beatles? For Theatre Calgary it mostly works.

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Theatre Calgary’s presentation of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, adapted and directed by Daryl Cloran, is like ‘pools of sorrow, waves of joy.’ The production is mostly the original full length play, with songs by the Beatles spread throughout. Your brain chugs at first, trying to see how the two are related. They aren’t related […]

Beautiful Man spins the perspective on hyper sexualized culture in media.

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Beautiful Man by Erin Shields, flips the perspective of the world on its head and subjects men to the same treatment that women usually experience. It’s grueling, vulgar and degrading, but it’s supposed to be. It’s also darkly funny. Audiences find themselves laughing at the brutality while asking themselves if they should be laughing. The […]