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Stage West mounts raunchy but hilarious puppet show Avenue Q
Avenue Q is Sesame Street for adults, says Stage West director Puppets, raunchy jokes and profanity, oh my! Stage West is in the midst of bringing a little bit of Broadway puppetry to its stage with...
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90.3 Amp and Jann Arden go toe to toe over editing songs
90.3 Amp says it doesn’t play Jann Arden music Canadian pop artist Jann Arden is criticizing Calgary radio station 90.3 Amp for cutting song playing times in half as part of a new format called...
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Robin Williams death stuns Canadian comics
Robin Williams dead at 63 of apparent suicide Canadian comedians are mourning the death of American comic and actor Robin Williams as the loss of one of comedy’s greats. Robin Williams first achieved...
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Who was Robin Williams? A very, very funny dude…
Robin Williams starred in “The Crazy Ones” on CBS, which cancelled the show after one season The question from a fan in a Sirius XM interview last year was innocent - what do you think you’d be doing...
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Lyle Lovett coming to Edmonton and Calgary in Sept.
Lyle Lovett: Calgary – Monday Sept. 22, Edmonton Tuesday Sept. 23 A singer, composer and actor, Lyle Lovett has broadened the definition of American music in a career that spans 14 albums – and he...
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George Wendt headlines ‘Fox on the Fairway’– Stage West
George Wendt surprised people still recognize him from his days on TV sitcom “Cheers” Everybody knows his name. And while Stage West theatre may not be his usual stomping grounds, actor George Wendt...
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Joe Cocker, 70, dead of lung cancer
Joe Cocker duet with Jennifer Warnes, “Up Where We Belong,” topped charts in 1980s British singer Joe Cocker is dead at age 70. Joe Cocker was a fixture on the 60s and 70s pop charts. His London-based...
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The Odd Couple at Surrey Arts Centre is funny, entertaining
Surrey Arts Centre The Odd Couple isn’t perfect, but still worth the ticket price I grew up in the 1970s watching The Odd Couple on television, so the Surrey Arts Centre’s version of the Neil Simon...
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Michael Green tribute from playwright Brad Fraser
Michael Green lauded for innovation with One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre There is a generation of us in the theatre who encountered one another in a vastly different Calgary in 1987 and 88....
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The Leonard Nimoy I knew: U of A’s Vern Thiessen
U of A playwriting alumnus recalls collaborating with the late Leonard Nimoy By Geoff McMaster for the University of Alberta News Vern Thiessen and Leonard Nimoy. Thiessen remembers Nimoy as a “kind...
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