Posts By: Jenna

Broadway Across Canada’s ‘Newsies’ resonates

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Manhattan’s newsboys are going on strike in Broadway Across Canada’s stage production of Disney’s Newsies and it’s great to watch. The musical, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, is based on the 1992 film Newsies, which actually stemmed from a real world strike of newsboys in 1899 in New York City. The […]

‘No one’s Safe’ is risky immersive opera

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You’re invited to the Marshall Family reunion. There will be libretto and opera. And a murder. No One’s Safe is a murder mystery opera performance that is presented in partnership between Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Against the Grain Theatre and the Candian Opera Company. It is an innovative opera experience, taking place at […]

Harmonies come together in Rosebud Theatre’s ‘Tent Meeting’

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Rosebud Theatre’s production of Tent Meeting by Morris Ertman and Ron Reed is about a lot of things. It’s about the power of gospel music, the way friendship and love brings people together and drives them apart, and the ways in which faith and religion influences our lives. The play tells of George Hoveland (Declan O’Reilly) […]