Monty Python’s Spamalot, a musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture is a lot of fun. Stage West’s production is packed full of music and strong performances, but is a bit uneven because of some awkward direction and some technical difficulties. Spamalot is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, just with music and scenes […]
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Stage West’s …And Then, the Lights Went Out is a charming story within a story
Thomas Levine is on a deadline. He has to finish his seventh book in his Jim O’Reiley detective series or he probably won’t be getting paid. Levine is a youth author living in Edmonton, barely scraping by, mostly because his characters keep drinking his liquor. That’s the great aspect of Stage West’s production of …And […]
The script suffers in Stage West’s The Fox on the Fairway
What you should know about Ken Ludwig’s The Fox on the Fairway is that it is a tribute to the great English farces of the 1930’s and 1940’s. It is a comedy playing at Stage West that features George Wendt (From ‘Cheers’). The puzzling thing about this play is that Ludwig is an internationally acclaimed […]