To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University of Alberta’s Department of Drama, the Curious Arts blog is sharing 50 Reasons to Go See A Play throughout the 2015-16 season. Here is reason seven to go see a play. UAlberta PhD candidate Lily Climenhaga’s new translation and adaptation of Spring Awakening debuts with ABBEDAM production Nov. 5 … Read moreABBEDAM Productions: new Spring Awakening
When Andrea Murphy (‘15 BFA) offered to contribute content to the UAlberta Faculty of Arts Instagram and Drama Twitter accounts as a Drama 577 course project in the Winter 2015 term, I hit the heart button. Andrea was wrapping up her BFA stage management degree and I knew her practical course work in that final … Read moreAndrea Murphy: stage manager on social media
Join me in supporting New Work The dictionary defines the word new as: n(y)o͞o/ adjective; new: comparative adjective: newer; superlative adjective: newest not existing before; made, introduced, or discovered recently or now for the first time, as in “a new stage play.“ It takes guts to write a play in May 2014 and put it up in February 2015, less … Read moreNew Works Festival 2015
UAlberta musicology grad charts new path with The Provincial Archive The stars must have been aligned. Somehow, at eight in the morning, I convinced musician Stephen Tchir to sit down to discuss his past four months or so of activity. “It’s too early,” he jokes at one point on an outrageously cold Edmonton morning, trying … Read moreStephen Tchir talks transitions and timbres – curious arts
Artists and audiences made it together On January 13, we woke up to the shocking news that Edmonton had lost the Roxy Theatre. Heather Zwicker, a professor of English at the University of Alberta and a volunteer on Make Something Edmonton’s activation board, wrote a poignant post for Make Something Edmonton’s blog, reflecting on what … Read moreThe Roxy Theatre – curious arts