Kim's Convenience presented by Theater Calgary

Every year my friend Diana and I buy subscription tickets to Theater Calgary. I love this time of year, summer is about parties and being outside and a break from the norm but as the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, we all migrate inside and experience theater. The first play of the season always welcomes this transition.
 
 
This year, the play is called Kim's Convenience and I'm excited to see it. It has received rave reviews since debuting at the Toronto Fringe Festival last year, critics calling it touching and funny (my favorite combo of emotions if you ask me).
 
 

Date(s): Sept. 3 - 29
Venue: Max Bell Theatre, EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts, 205 8 Ave. SE
Tickets: Prices vary
Korean immigrant Mr. Kim is nearing retirement and wondering what will happen to his convenience store when he stops running it. This family tale that looks to the past and future with love and laughter is by Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Company, presented by Theatre Calgary.
For more info or to buy tickets go the the Theater Calgary website

Evil Dead: the musical

It's back and covered in blood... again. If you were in Calgary about 4 years ago, walking downtown on a warm August night, you may have experienced it. Handfuls of people laughing and gallivanting around, participating in all types of debauchery...wearing white shirts covered in blood. Ruby red, sticky, washable blood.

That was the summer when Evil Dead: the musical first came to town with it's campy lyrics and splatter zone, it was the hottest ticket in town. Those of us who went became greedy, going not just once but sometimes three of four times causing the production to hold over an extra month due to the popularity and demand. It was fantastic.

Embrace the mess and wear your best white shirt. Buy your tickets in the splatter zone. Should you feel a little shy about it, there are plenty of seats out of reach. Just remember, messy is more fun.

Starting August 14th

Tickets range from $25 and up

located at the Pumphouse Theater on 2140 Pumphouse Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB T3CTP5

Experience the Beatles with RAIN: Presale

October 27-31

Coming direct from Broadway and performing classic Beatles songs, such as “Hey Jude,” “Come Together,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and more when you Experience the Beatles with RAIN at the Jubilee Auditorium! Don’t miss your chance to see the band that has Variety claiming that “The Beatles are back!”

• Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium – Saturday, Oct 27 – Sunday, Oct 28
• Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium – Tuesday, Oct 30 – Wednesday, Oct 31

GET THE BEST SEATS when you order through this special presale offer. Use the password 'FABFOUR' to find tickets now!

Enter code: FABFOUR into Special Offers Box. Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Edmonton, AB Oct. 27- Oct. 28 Find Tickets Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Calgary, AB Oct. 30- Oct. 31 Find Tickets

Lucy Lost Her Heart

Today I bought my tickets to Theater Junctions production of Lucy Lost Her Heart. This is a second time around for this postmodern fairytale that investigates identity, lost memory and the game of truth and lies.

It's playing for a short time, from March 14th till March 17th.

The town of Lucy has strangely disappeared. Its inhabitants retreated into the tunnels of the abandoned mine and now they are stuck, suspended in time, caught like flies in honey. Pocahontas, Lost Soldier, FLIP, Red, Pierre, and a prehistoric bear wander through dark corridors haunted by history, attempting to understand where they are and how they might find a way out.

Lucy Lost Her Heart interrogates the violence of the past in relation to the possibilities for the future. Can our desire to “return home” lead us through the pain and anxiety of what the future might hold? The underground city of Lucyland opens onto a surreal landscape of stories and dreams as the characters attempt to understand their new reality, and to reinterpret themselves in a world where inventing stories makes the future possible.

Wide open, spare—equal parts beautiful and unnervingly empty.
Calgary Herald

Theatre Junction’s company of artists is a performance ensemble formed by Mark Lawes, Theatre Junction’s founder and artistic director. The ensemble is comprised of a unique combination of people, skills, disciplines and backgrounds, featuring actors, dancers, musicians and a sculptor. Together they fuse creative languages that reflect the multiplicity of the public and the many different points of view that are at the essence of our changing world. After premièring Lucy Lost Her Heart at Theatre Junction GRAND in March 2011, Theatre Junction was invited to Usine C in Montreal to be a part of their 2011–2012 season of international performance. Before taking their meditation on death, desire and the Canadian west on the road, Lucy Lost Her Heart will be re-created in Calgary as part of the 2011/12 season.

Haunting, catastrophic, addicting — this performance covers all bases.
Lifestyle Magazine

LUCY LOST HER HEART
Mar.14, 2012 to Mar.17, 2012
8 p.m.
$20 - $40.75

Theatre Junction Grand
403-205-2922

At 608 1st St. S.W.

Penny Plain

Penny Plain sits in her overstuffed chair, listening to the news of civilization’s inevitable end. When her companion dog Geoffrey leaves to live as a man, the outside chaos invades Penny’s sanctuary. With a cast including survivalists, a serial killer, a cross-dressing banker, talking dogs and mysterious strangers, Penny Plain is a chilling apocalyptic gothic drawing room comedy of ill manners. 

Audience Advisory: Not for children. Children under the age of 14 will not be admitted.

Music by John Alcorn

Lighting Design by Kevin Humphrey

Running Dates:

October 18 - November 6, 2011

Write up in Calgary Herald

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