Behind The Curtain

If you want a bountiful garden, it all starts in the dirt, and Calgary’s newest theatre company Big Sky Theatre is hoping to add a bit of nitrogen to the city's performing arts soil. Big Sky Theatre hopes to bring live theatrical performance back to Prince’s Island Park or comparable venues beginning next summer. Calgary has been without a similar program now for several years. Behind Big Sky Theatre are well-known mid-career Calgary professional theatre artists Emily Howar

You've never seen Little Mermaid like this before. Calgary Flipside Theatre Collective is putting on a Filipino musical adaptation of the classic tale with the help of Forte Musical Theatre, in association with the Philippine Festival Council of Alberta. The script presents an alternative to the heroine Ariel, introducing “Jewel” as the mermaid who yearns for a life above sea level. This stage adaptation was first produced in the 1990s to great success by Philippine productio

Originally published May 29 2026 at the Citynews Calgary website Lunchbox Theatre (Hugh Short) unchbox Theatre is packing up and leaving the downtown core for cSPACE Marda Loop – a major shift for a company built in the heyday of Calgary’s office culture in the 1970s. Now heading into its 52nd season, Artistic Director Bronwyn Steinberg says the move reflects how Calgary has changed. “Downtown office work culture is not what it was in the 70s, which led to the creation of Lun

Originally published June 26 at the City News Calgary website President and CEO of Arts Commons Alex Sarian, left, Verb Theatre's Camille Pavlenko, centre, and Handsome Alice's Meg Farhall, centre-right, and KP Smith--also with Verb Theatre, receive awards at the Betty Mitchell Awards in Calgary on Monday, June 23, 2025. (Andrea Montgomery) It’s awards season for the performing arts community ahead of the summer break for professional theatre. The Betty Mitchell Awards are