Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Your Show Here Playwright – Daniel MacIvor Production Company/Theatre space – ReWork Productions, One Yellow Rabbit, High Performance Rodeo / Big Secret Theatre, Werklund Centre. Length – 1 Act (80 minutes) Genre/s – Meta Drama Premise – While simultaneously teaching us we too could have a show, he uses the points, Title, Poster, Lights, Sound etc. to illustrate a seemingly insignificant story about returning fro

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – A Brief History of Smoking Cigarettes Playwright/s/Composer/s – created by Deanne Jones, with music by Paul Simon and snippet of writing from CBC. Production Company/Theatre space – Suitcase in Point, One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo / Heather Edwards Theatre, Contemporary Calgary. Length – 1 Act, 1 hour 10 minutes (no intermission.) Genre – Storytelling with two songs, video, puppets, and audience part

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – The Boss of it All Playwright/s – Lars von Trier adapted by Jack McNamara Production Company/Theatre space – The Theatre, (yes, the new company is called “The Theatre”) at the base of Fontainbleau Estates on 14 th Ave and 2 nd Street SW. Length – One act, 1 hour 30 minutes (one intermission) Genre/s – Meta Sitcom Premise – An actor is hired to represent the owner of the tech company by the people-pleasing real

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Beyond Fallujah Playwright – Writer Patrick Graham Production Company/Theatre space – One Yellow Rabbit, High Performance Rodeo / Engineered Air Theatre, Werklund Centre Length – 90 minutes Genre/s – Reading from memoir Premise – A journalist shares his life story, the risks he took to get the story in Iraq during Bush’s “Shock & Awe” campaign, and his adventures reporting and interviewing terrorists and insurgen

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Monstress Playwright– Trevor Schmidt Production Company/Theatre space – Professional / The Playhouse, Vertigo Theatre, Length – 2 Act, 1 hour 50 minutes (one intermission) Genre/s – Science fiction Premise – At the behest of a wealthy man, a female scientist/engineer/surgeon is asked to reanimate his daughter who he claims broke her neck from an equestrian accident. Why this play? Why now? – Vertigo started ou

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Juliet: A Revenge Comedy Playwright/s – Co-written by Ryan Gladstone and Pipa Mackie Production Company/Theatre space – Monster Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, High Performance Rodeo / Martha Cohen Theatre, Werklund Centre Length – 1 Act (90 minutes) Genre – Comedy (billed as a feminist action-comedy) Premise – Juliet decides, since she’s only thirteen and known this boy for two days, that she shouldn’t kill herself,

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Ribstone Playwright – Christopher Hunt Production Company/Theatre space – Lunchbox Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo / Studio Theatre at Vertigo Theatre. Length – One hour, 30 minutes (no intermission) Genre/s – Storytelling Premise – A collection of stories of ancestors which grapples with complicated hindsight post Truth and Reconciliation, centered tangentially around a boulder that was carve

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – I Would Prefer Not To Playwright/s/Composer/s – co-created by David Gagnon Walker and Tori Morrison. Production Company/Theatre space – A Strange Victory Production, One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo / Heather Edwards Theatre, Contemporary Calgary. Length – 1 Act, 1 hour 25 minutes (no intermission.) Genre – Storytelling Premise – A man tells us about his depressive episodes, and a woman tells a story

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Swan? Playwright/composer – Lauren Brady with snippets of lyrics from 3 pop songs. Production Company/Theatre space – Bad Knees Studios, Heywire Production, One Yellow Rabit, High Performance Rodeo / Vertigo Studio Theatre. Length – 65 minutes (no intermission) Genre/s – Absurdist clown ballet fantasy with audience participation. Premise – A swan turns into a woman who lives in a pond, tells us stuff, and dances

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Moulin Rouge! Playwright/s/Composer/s – Book by John Logan, based on the movie written by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce. Production Company/Theatre space – Carmen Pavlovic, Gerry Ryan, Bill Damaschke, Aaron Lustbader, Hunter Arnold, Darren Bagert, Adam Blanshay Productions/Nicolas & Charles Talar, Iris Smith, Aleri Entertainment, Sophie Qi/Harmonia Holdings, CJ ENM, Len Blavatnik, Ambassador Theatre Group, Endeavor Content

Postcard review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Peter Pan - An Awfully Big Pantomime Playwright/composer – Written by Tom Whalley based on the novel by JM Barrie with music and lyrics from songs recorded/written by Queen, Pharrell Williams, ROSÉ & Bruno Mars, Chappell Roan, Back Street Boys, Elvis Presley, Little Mix, Survivor, Bruce Springsteen, Blue Swede, Andrew Loyd Webber, Gloria Gaynor, Frank Churchill & Jack Lawrence, Arrogant Worms, Elton John, Stephen Schwartz

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Little Red Riding Hood Playwright/composer – Music and libretto by Seymour Barab, adapted from the fairytale Le Petit Chaperon Rouge by Charles Perrault Production Company/Theatre space – Calgary Opera / Mamdani Opera Centre Length – 55 minutes (including preshow chat and Q & A, no intermission) Genre/s – Children’s opera fairytale Premise – In her dream, a girl disobeying her mother picks strawberries on the wa

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Playwright/composer – Lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, adapted from the Bible written by various. Production Company/Theatre space – Chai (rhymes with high and means life in Hebrew) Life Productions, (community) Temple B’Nai Tikvah Length – 1 Act, 1 hour 45 minutes (no intermission) Genre/s – Sung Through Musical (operetta) Premise – A boy who can “re

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Wizard of Oz Playwright/Composers – By L. Frank Baum with music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Haburg, background music by Herbert Stothart, adapted by John Kane from the movie owned by Turner Entertainment Production Company/Theatre space – Alberta Theatre Projects with Forte Musical Theatre (professional) / The Martha Cohen Theatre, Werklund Centre. Length – 2 Act (2 hours, 45 mins, one intermission) Genre/s

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – How Patty and Joanne Won High Gold at the Grand Christmas Cup Winter Dance Competition Playwright – Trevor Schmidt Production Company/Theatre space – Lunchbox Theatre (professional) / Studio Theatre at Vertigo Theatre. Length – 1 Act (1 hour 10 minutes) Genre/s – Comedy Womance Premise – A single, cat owning, bank teller convinces a mother of five to continue with the amateur dance competition after the other eight

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Miracle on 34 th Street Playwright/s – Music and lyrics by Meredith Willson based on the screenplay by George Seaton from the original story by Valentine Davies. Production Company/Theatre space – StoryBook Theatre (semiprofessional) / Beddington Arts Centre Length – 2 Acts (2 hours 15 minutes, one intermission) Genre/s – Fantasy musical Premise – When a man called Kris Kringle is hired to work as Santa at Macy

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – New York New York a Broadway Revue Playwright/Composer – Various, not listed. I hope the rights were secured for performance. Production Company/Theatre space – 42 nd Street Productions (semi-professional) / Evan Hazell Theatre, Seton YMCA. Length – 2 Act (2 hours, 20 minutes, one intermission) Genre/s – Musical tribute to Broadway concert. I knew all of the pieces, but I didn’t know which musicals they all came

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – The Understandable Girl Playwright/Composer – by Nikki Loach with contributions from Lyudmyla Honcharova, Snizhana Bora, and Katheen Ballagan. Production Company/Theatre space – Quest Theatre (professional) / C-Space Length – 1 Act (1 hour no intermission) Genre/s – TYA drama Premise – An elementary schoolchild is tasked by her teacher to befriend the new Ukrainian refugee girl who doesn’t speak English. Why t

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Sister Act Playwright/Composer – Music by Ian Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, Book by Cheri Steinkellner & Bill Steinkellner with additional book material by Douglas Carter Beane, based on the screenplay by Joseph Howard. Production Company/Theatre space –Stage West Dinner Theatre (professional). Length – 2 Act (2 hours, 20 minutes, one intermission) Genre/s – Musical Premise – A lounge singer who witnesses a mu

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Peril in the Alps Playwright– Steven Dietz using investigator Poirot created by Agatha Christie. Production Company/Theatre space – Vertigo Theatre (professional) / The Playhouse Length – 2 Acts; 2 hours 30 minutes (one intermission) Genre/s – Spoof Premise – In this show within a show, actors act out the story of Hercule Poirot with sidekick Hastings, who deal with disappearance, kidnapping, murder, and various