“More people need to pay attention.” Theatre Calgary’s First Métis Man Of Odesa is a love story and a love letter. It’s a telling of the love story between Matthew Mackenzie and Mariya Khomutova, and it’s a love letter to the Ukraine. It feels like its purpose, it’s reason for being produced is to have […]
Theatre Calgary has picked the perfect time to produce Come From Away. The musical with book, music, and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein is a blend of hope and despair, with a patriotic thread that runs right through it. The Canadian patriotism isn’t centered around our country though, it is centered around who […]
The Verdict is a best-selling novel by Barry Reed and a Oscar nominated film. The play, adapted by Margaret May Hobbs, is produced by Vertigo Theatre as its North American premiere. It’s a ‘David vs Goliath’ story, a story of an unlikely hero in search of justice and accountability. It’s the story of a flawed […]