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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Here are two more Deep Freeze stories from The Edmonton Journal – thanks for the coverage!
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Family+Community/4074228/story.html
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Edmonton+Deep+Freeze+winter+festival/4070789/story.html
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Another great bit of Deep Freeze coverage from last week, featuring the Deep Freeze Mummers!
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Mysterious+mummers+town+this+weekend/4061882/story.html
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Catch this great piece on this past weekend’s Deep Freeze Festival, right on the Edmonton Journal’s website (and complete with festival photos).
This story also ran in the Vancouver Sun!
Monday, September 13th, 2010
On September 8th the St.Albert Gazette featured a story on Kaleido, which you can read on their website at …
http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/20100908/SAG0302/309089993/-1/SAG/kaleido-festival-offers-collage-of-entertainment
It fun to read the article in hindsight and realize that the weather did indeed co-operate and that the festivities mentioned were only the tip of the iceberg for what made this past weekend at Kaleido so very special.
Friday, September 10th, 2010
Yet more press for Kaleido!
Find Kaleido Festival on Merge Magazine’s website in a story by Sarah Kmiech online at http://www.mergemag.ca/the-community/216-kaleido-family-arts-festival.html
Friday, September 10th, 2010
Alberta Venture magazine has recently featured Christy Morin and the arts revitalization taking place on Alberta Avenue.
Writer Emily Senger describes the piece as “How an influx of artists can revitalize a neighborhood“.
Friday, September 10th, 2010
Yesterday morning, September 9, 2010, the Kaleido Festival was featured on Global Edmonton. It was great to have Global come down to The Ave and cover the event, helping spread the word about the great festival that is about to hit Edmonton’s streets.
You can watch the broadcast for free online at http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/video/index.html?releasePID=UvKsjXPjc_FoP9Ga8T1obd2OGqYpiFiW
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Kaleido has been featured in Metro News, largely for the fact that there is “something for everyone” at this diverse family arts festival.
You can read the full article at http://www.metronews.ca/edmonton/local/article/611423–something-for-everyone-at-kaleido
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Scott McKeen has written an encouraging article on the struggles and successes of the We Believe in 118 campaign to remove weapons and drug paraphernalia from Alberta Avenue businesses.
Read the article on the Edmonton Journal website at http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Sale+crack+pipes+Alberta+Avenue+definitely+legal/3322657/story.html.
You can also join in on the conversation in the comments below the article.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Courageous triumphs at Edmonton’s Sterling Awards
Play about tolerance shares top honours with The Drowsy Chaperone
By Liz Nicholls, edmontonjournal.com June 29, 2010
EDMONTON — A combative and witty play about that contradictory Canuck quality we call tolerance took home Monday evening’s top honours as outstanding production as the theatre community put on its party pumps to toast the past season on Edmonton stages.
Michael Healey’s Courageous, a coventure between the Citadel and Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, shared top billing at the 23rd annual Sterling Awards gala with another venture by Edmonton’s biggest playhouse. Jurors awarded the outstanding musical Sterling to The Drowsy Chaperone, a bona fide Canadian hit in its first major post-Broadway incarnation. The fizzy musical-within-a-show, seen through the eyes of Man in Chair, is an homage to the time-honoured impulse to sing, dance and be entertained. In fact, leading man John Ullyatt gave a brief demo of the urge to tap dance Monday night — and we, the collective men in chairs, loudly approved.
The season’s best new play, jurors decided, was David Belke’s The Science of Disconnection, which premiered at Shadow Theatre. Protagonist Lise Meitner, the pioneer physicist who lent mathematical proofs to Einstein, may have been robbed at Nobel time. But Cathy Derkach’s star performance garnered her the leading actress Sterling, not to mention the season’s only mention onstage of the term “nuclear recoil.”
Curiously, the Citadel’s Sweeney Todd, which cut a swath through the Sterling field with seven nominations, didn’t end up with a single Sterling. Unlike some other years, no one theatre or production took home an overwhelming armload of the 24 Sterling Awards this year. The weight bearing was dispersed, but didn’t extend to either Workshop West or to Northern Light Theatre, the latter unaccountably absent altogether from the nomination list.
Literature’s most famous libertine, sporting the biggest chastity belt ever to be seen on a Canadian stage (I’m guessing here), had himself a night out. The Old Trout Puppet Workshop’s The Erotic Anguish of Don Juan, part of the Theatre Network season, got Sterlings for its star (human-sized actor Duval Lang), for its Jen Gareau costumes and for Cimmeron Meyer’s lighting of old Seville’s nightspots. The fourth of Theatre Networks Sterlings honoured Marianne Copithorne’s direction of the hit thriller The Woman in Black.
Of Teatro La Quindicina’s three Sterlings, the Fringe new work prize went to Stewart Lemoine’s wistful, funny ode to the blurred, and correctable, vision, The Oculist’s Holiday. The new Teatro musical Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s!, which lent the evening its Act II opener and is actually set in Edmonton, received Sterlings for its score, by the team of Ryan Sigurdson and Farren Timoteo, and its musical director (the former).
Theatre for young audiences had heftier prominence at this year’s gala. Concrete Theatre’s production of Routes, Collin Doyle’s new play about the roots and escalation of urban violence, was deemed outstanding in this category. And the exquisitely convincing, life-sized birds of the Green Fools’ Project: Whooping Crane, in the Fringe Theatre Adventures season, got the nod for “outstanding artistic achievement.”
Catalyst Theatre’s administrator Brenda McNicol, whose services have enriched matters theatrical across the city, was recognized with the Margaret Mooney award in administration (on the eve of her company’s departure, with Nevermore, for the Barbican Festival in London).
And the late Tim Ryan, founder and presiding muse of Grant MacEwan University’s musical theatre program and Leave It To Jane Theatre, was saluted with an “outstanding contribution to the theatre in Edmonton.” His death in November represents the season’s most dramatic single loss.
lnicholls@thejournal.canwest.com
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AND THE STERLINGS WENT TO …
Outstanding production of a play: Courageous (Citadel/Tarragon Theatres)
Outstanding production of a musical: The Drowsy Chaperone (Citadel/National Arts Centre)
Outstanding new play: The Science of Disconnection by David Belke (Shadow Theatre)
Outstanding performance by an actress in a leading role: Cathy Derkach, The Science of Disconnection
Outstanding performance by an actor in a leading role: Duval Lang, The Erotic Anguish of Don Juan (The Old Trout Puppet Workshop/ Theatre Network)
Outstanding performance by an actress in a supporting role: Nadien Chu, Titus Andronicus (Free Will Shakespeare Festival)
Outstanding performance by an actor in a supporting role: George Szilagyi, Hockey Stories For Boys (Aarrggh! Productions)
Outstanding director: Marianne Copithorne, The Woman In Black (Theatre Network)
Outstanding independent production: Folie A Deux (The Maggie Tree)
Outstanding set design: Bretta Gerecke, Rigoletto (Edmonton Opera)
Outstanding lighting design: Cimmeron Meyer, The Erotic Anguish Of Don Juan
Outstanding score of a play or musical: Ryan Sigurdson and Farren Timoteo, Everybody Goes To Mitzi’s! (Teatro La Quindicina)
Outstanding musical director: Ryan Sigurdson, Everybody Goes To Mitzi’s! (Teatro La Quindicina)
Outstanding choreography or fight direction: Dayna Tekatch, The Drowsy Chaperone
Outstanding Fringe production: Victor and Victoria’s Terrifying Tale Of Terrifying Things (Kill Your Television)
Outstanding Fringe new work: The Oculist’s Holiday by Stewart Lemoine (Teatro La Quindicina)
Outstanding Fringe performance by an actress: Beth Graham, Victor And Victoria’s Terrifying Tale Of Terrible things
Outstanding Fringe performance by an actor: Kevin Gillese, Wisdom Teeth (Craddock Family Productions)
Outstanding Fringe director: Kenneth Brown, Spiral Dive II (THEATrePUBLIC)
Outstanding production for young audiences: Routes (Concrete Theatre)
Outstanding artistic achievement in theatre for young audiences: Dean Bareham and Jennie Esdale, production design, Project: Whooping Crane (Green Fools Theatre/ Fringe Theatre Adventures)
Ross Hill Award for individual achievement in production: Alan Welch
Margaret Mooney award for outstanding achievement in administration: Brenda McNicol
Outstanding contribution to theatre in Edmonton: Tim Ryan
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