Recent Blog Posts
Ballet Edmonton to perform in Ottawa’s Southam Hall, a Big Achievement for a Small Company
Read my article on The Dance Current website.
Why Alberta Audiences are different from any other in Canada.
Read my Q&A with Jean Grand-Maître, Nicole Mion, Les Sereda and Brian Webb on The Dance Current website.
Recent Reviews
Verb Theatre’s ‘The Starling Effect’ is suspenseful science fiction
How far would you go to save someone you love? Or yourself? The Starling Effect is a world premiere by local playwright Lara Schmitz, produced by Verb Theatre, in association with Reckless Daughter Creative. It’s a new science fiction play that explores the limits of relationships when it includes keeping souls alive, body swapping and memory […]
Alberta Theatre Projects’ production of WILDWOMAN is polarizing.
The final production in Alberta Theatre Projects’ season is WILDWOMAN by Kat Sandler. It’s a telling of Prince Henry of France, who becomes King Henry II. The play depicts life for Henry, as prince, when he marries Catherine de’ Midici. We then see her life as it evolves as Queen. The play is meant to be a […]
Theatre Calgary’s ‘A Doll’s House’ examines the true meaning of freedom.
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House premiered in 1879 and Amy Herzog’s adaptation was written in 2023. The new version modernizes the play, setting it in an unknown year in the 20th century. Almost 150 years after being written, what’s at the core of the original script still rings with depth and poignancy. It’s no wonder that Theatre […]
Jenna Shummoogum
I am a communications and marketing professional by day and a theatre and dance critic by night. I have been a theatre critic for over a decade and have contributed work to The Dance Current, LiveWire Calgary, getdown.ca, the Calgary Herald and Avenue Magazine online. I was the Regional Reporter for The Dance Current for Alberta and I was a member and lead organizer of the Calgary Theatre Critics’ awards (The Critters).