Episodios

  • S5E2 - A Fox on the Fairway - Morpheus Theatre
    Oct 6 2026
    Discussion

    Opening October 2nd and closing October 10th at the Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary, Alberta, Morpheus Theatre presents A Fox on the Fairway, by Ken Ludwig, directed by Sean Anderson. Kyle sits down with Sean after opening night to discuss this productions difficulties and triumphs.

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    1 h y 4 m
  • S4E35 - Nine - Front Row Centre Players
    Sep 14 2026
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    Opening September 11 and closing September 26th, Front Row Centre Players presents the musical Nine, directed by Colleen Bishop. Kyle sits down with Colleen to talk about the history of the production, Colleen's history with the production and what it means to approach a musical about a mid-life crisis as a creator in the arts, as a mid-life individual creating in the arts.

    Tickets: https://www.showpass.com/frc-2627-nine/

    About the Show:

    The spectacular musical adaptation of Fellini's 8½ features one man and the dozens of women in his life. Celebrated but impetuous film director Guido Contini, succumbing to the pressures of filming his latest film epic, suffers a midlife crisis. One by one, women from his past and present – including his mother, his wife, his mistress, and his leading lady – haunt, instruct, scold, seduce and encourage him until he finally learns to grow up.

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    1 h y 12 m
  • S4E34 - Jay's Wing - Alter Ego Theatre
    Jun 27 2026
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    Jay's Wing, directed by Snizhana Gukasian-Korobeinikova was put up at the West Village Theatre March 28th and 29th of 2026. Kyle sat down after the show had closed to talk with directed and performer Snizhana about how the production went, what it meant, and how Ukrainian Theatre differs from Canadian Theatre and what lessons we can take away from this bridging of cultures.

    About the Show:

    Adapted from the original Ukrainian text by Ivan Franko, Massino, a 40-year-old man, spends New Year’s Eve in solitude. He reflects on his aesthetic, reclusive life until he receives a letter from his forgotten love, which forces him to reconsider his views on the future. The love story of Maria and Massino was written 120 years ago. We took one of the most poetic prose works of Ukrainian literature and translated it into the language of theatre.

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    41 m
  • S4E33 - Two One Acts - Flying Tree Theatre
    May 27 2026
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    Opening the 28th through the 31st of May at the Spanic Arts, Flying Tree Theatre presents two original works - Where is Home and Next Door by Julie-Anne Bolduc. Kyle sits down with the two creators of Flying Tree Theatre, Julie-Anne and Arash Minhas to discuss what these works are about, what Flying Tree Theatre is all about, and what these sorts of works mean for first generation Canadians.

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    About the Shows:

    Where Is Home? explores the experience of first generation immigrants and newcomers whose roots stretch across borders and time. It follows a young man torn between the home he left behind and the future he hopes to build with the woman he loves. When home is never just one place, what does love look like and where does it belong?Next Door explores an intercultural relationship between a white Canadian woman and a South Asian man navigating love under the weight of family expectations. When cultures meet, tensions rise but so do moments of deep connection.Together, these two works examine identity, belonging, family, and the quiet resilience it takes to build connection across difference.Together, these two works examine identity, belonging, family, and the quiet resilience it takes to build connection across difference.

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    37 m
  • S4E32 - Cabaret - Front Row Centre Players
    May 17 2026
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    Opening May 15th and running through May 30th at the Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary, Front Row Centre Players presents Cabaret, directed by Kay Astop. Kyle sits down with Kay to talk about this complicated production and the time it took to bring it to the stage from having to shutter it due to the pandemic 4 days before it was set to open until today when it finally sees an audience.

    Tickets: https://www.artscommons.ca/whats-on/frc-2025-26-season

    About the show:

    In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken by English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally’s boarding house, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish.

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    54 m
  • S4E31 - Steel Magnolias - Dewdney Players
    May 16 2026
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    Directed by Dayna Coles, Kyle sits down with Dayna to discuss Dewdney Player's production of Steel Magnolias, opening May 8th and running through May 23rd.

    Tickets: https://www.showpass.com/dewdney-players-presents-steel-magnolias-the-old-church-theatre-6/

    About the Show:

    The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town’s rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, ("I’m not crazy, I’ve just been in a bad mood for forty years"); an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader, M’Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby (the prettiest girl in town), is about to marry a “good ole boy.” Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.

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    51 m
  • S4E30 - The Last Yiddish Speaker - Chai Life
    May 12 2026
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    Opening May 20th and running until June 7th at the B'nai Tikva Temple in Calgary, Chai Life presents The Last Yiddish Speaker, directed by Zelda Dean. Kyle sits down with Zelda and producer Laura Shuler to discuss what this show means, and how it will impact an audience.

    Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/the-last-yiddish-speaker

    About the show:

    In this fast-paced drama with a streak of magical realism, a Jewish father and daughter rely on their wits and powers of deceit to survive when the world has dramatically changed and the slightest divergence from the norm could cost them their lives. When an ancient Yiddish-speaking woman is deposited on their doorstep, Sarah and her father must decide whether to help the woman hide or to save themselves. Though it centers on Judaism and the right for Jews to exist, it has universal appeal to anyone who worries about marginalized groups, and the often-unwitting or uneducated, both well-meaning and vengeful, who group together to persecute them.

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    42 m
  • S4E29 - Noise's Off - Take a Bow
    May 1 2026
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    Kyle sits down with Cherie Dianne Caslyn, director of Take a Bow's forthcoming production of Noise's Off, presented in Cochrane at the Cochrane Ranchehouse Theatre May 1st through the 10th. They discuss the difficulties of doing it all in the effort to bring a production to life.

    Tickets: https://www.showpass.com/noises-off-by-michael-frayn/

    About the show:

    Called “the funniest farce ever written,” Noises Off presents a manic menagerie of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing’s On. Slamming doors, on and offstage intrigue, and an errant herring all figure in the plot of this hilarious, high-energy comedy. Mixing mockery and homage, Frayn heaps a hilarious melée of stock characters and situations into his side-splitting play-within-a-play.

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    46 m