Opening on October 16th and closing on October 25th in Bragg Creek, Swamp Donkey Musical Theatre presents A Taste of Things to Come, directed by Ang Woodard. Kyle sits down with Ang to talk about what this production means and the fabulous set and decor that transports an audience back to 1957 and 1967.

Tickets: https://www.showpass.com/s/events/all/?search_string=a+taste+of+things+to+come+swamp+donkey

About the Show:

This laugh-out-loud, fabulously fun romp that celebrates the friendships of four very different women. There was a time when the kitchen was a proving ground for women, a time when cooking up a tasty casserole garnered the same respect as being the CEO of Sears. In 1957, four women see an opportunity to make their mark and enter a Betty Crocker Cooking Contest in hopes of changing their lives. When they meet up again in 1967, what they get is more than what they bargained for… just a little taste of things to come

Opening October 1 and closing October 10th at the Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary, Scorpio Theatre presents Torch Song by Harvey Fierstein (the 2018 revised version), directed by Joey Sayer. Kyle sits down with Joey to discuss the impact of this production, what it means to come back to this work 36 year later and why a 1970s era gay-lens production like this is so very relevant today.

Tickets: https://www.showpass.com/harvey-fiersteins-torch-song/

Check out Joey's interview with Gay Calgary History here: https://calgarygayhistory.ca/

About the Show:

In Torch Song – the two-act revival of Harvey Fierstein’s award-winning Torch Song Trilogy – the life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing, Jewish drag queen living in New York City, is dramatized over the span of the late 1970s and 1980s. Told with a likable, human voice, Torch Song follows Arnold’s odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child, and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect.

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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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.

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.

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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.

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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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.

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.

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.