Posts By: Jenna

Theatre Calgary’s ‘Dial M for Murder’ is a dynamic thriller

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When people think of the thriller Dial M for Murder, they usually think about Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film starring Grace Kelly and Ray Milland. The original play by Frederick Knott is viewed as one of the great thrillers of the modern stage. Vertigo Theatre produced the play back in 2015 and now Theatre Calgary is putting on […]

Stage West’s ‘Shear Madness’ is still a hitting whodunnit.

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In the Shear Madness Salon, things have gone mad. In Stage West’s production Shear Madness by Paul Pörtner, the landlord Isabelle Cherney, who is also a famous pianist, is murdered by stabbing in her apartment upstairs. A pair of hair cutting shears is the murder weapon and the staff and customers in the salon downstairs […]