Calgary’s annual winter music festival BIG Winter Classic will be held this year from January 24-28. BIG Winter Classic is one of the things music lovers in the city look forward to most, not just for how it encourages Calgarians to celebrate their city even in the dead
Broadway Across Canada presents Mean Girls, the musical theatre production of the eponymous film from 2004 that showcases the epic highs and lows of being a teenager. The story written by Tina Fey will be running from January 16–21, and you can catch a show at the Southern Jubilee
The Archies, the musical coming-of-age comedy, directed by Zoya Akhtar released on Netflix this Dec. 7. After great anticipation for how the nepo babies of Bollywood would perform in their grand debut, it is safe to say that the talents of their parents or grandparents are not exactly
The University of Calgary’s School of Creative and Performing Arts presented Dance@Noon, a sequence of dance programs choreographed by BFA Dance students in their third year at the University Theatre on Dec. 4, 5 and 6. This marks the first time Dance@Noon is featured as part of
The tale of Venus and Adonis goes back to the times of olds. Originating in Greek mythology, the tragic love story has persisted through the ages. Baroque composer John Blow wrote the story of Venus and Adonis as an opera and now Collegium Musicum is taking that piece and performing
Drop Cherries — Billie Marten Intricate layers of angelic melodies, intriguing progressions, and soothing percussion all lead to an amazing album. I had the pleasure of watching her perform some of these songs live this year, and I’m glad to say she sounds like the recordings live. It gets so
Theatre Calgary marks the magic of the festive season with performances of Charles Dickens’s classic novella, A Christmas Carol from Nov. 30 to Dec. 31. Directed by Stafford Arima, the effervescent — and at times, poignant — performance took the audience through the themes of redemption, compassion and humanity, underlined by
The Nutcracker is something that automatically springs to mind whenever the holiday season is brought up, for many a celebratory holiday tradition. Alberta Ballet’s annual production of The Nutcracker made a return this year, taking place from Dec. 15–24. The ballet production is based on E.T.A
Miranda Krogstad, a previous writer for the Gauntlet, is now a spectacular motivational poet and has just released their first book — Glass Half Full of Poetry. This book of poems is not your typical glass-half-full kind of optimism but rather a glass filled to the brim and pouring
At this wonderful time of year, you can almost feel a sprinkle of added magic in the air. It’s nearly time to put the books away and step into an enchanting world of dancing confections and glistening snow in Alberta Ballet’s annual production of The Nutcracker. The production
