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REVIEW – Darkly Humorous “Deathtrap” a Fun Twisted Tale

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Stage West kicks off their new season with the 1978 Ira Levine murder mystery Deathtrap. The longest running comedy-thriller in Broadway history, the Tony nominated show was adapted into a film starring the late Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine in 1982.

Broadway Myster writer Sidney Bruhl (Ashley Wright) is struggling after a series of flops. He receives a script from Clifford Anderson (Justin Stadnyk), a student in a seminar he has been teaching, that seems like a surefire hit. Sydney and his wife Myra…

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REVIEW – Everything Is Right About “The Play That Goes Wrong”

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(l to r) Andrew MacDonald-Smith, Joel SchaeferThe Play That Goes Wrong,playing at Theatre Calgary until September 29th, is one of the greatest comedic plays I’ve ever seen. Created by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company, the show debuted in London’s West End in 2012 and continues to this day. It opened in NYC in 2017. Having seen both productions, I was thrilled to see Theatre Calgary bringing the show to our city. The question is, does it measure up to the UK and Broadway versions?
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Reconstructing the Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement

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By Wendy Rouse
When I began researching the book Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, people warned me that I wouldn’t find much. They weren’t wrong.

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The Sum of My Parts

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By Oliver Radclyffe
But even if I had still been closeted, I knew it would be almost impossible to form a cohesive narrative from the confusing evidence laid out in front of me. It had taken me over forty years to figure it out myself, and I was the main suspect.

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