Every September, the kids go back to school, while actors, writers, directors – and symphony orchestras – go back to rehearsal.
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5 Reasons To Be Excited for ‘The Seafarer’ at Alberta Theatre Projects
Alberta Theatre Projects is thrilled to be opening their 50th Anniversary Season with Conor McPherson’s critically acclaimed play, The Seafarer, starring Paul Gross!
The 2024-25 Season at Arts Commons is Out of the Bag
From Tony Award-winning epics to light-hearted comedies, world-renowned composers to classical masterpieces, the 2024-25 season of the performing arts at Arts Commons has it all! Read on to learn about the amazing line-ups that the resident companies of Arts Commons - Alberta Theatre Projects, Arts Commons Presents, Downstage, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, One Yellow Rabbit, and Theatre Calgary - have in store!
Hilarious Spring comedy The Birds and the Bees hits the ATP stage this May
This May, Alberta Theatre Projects (ATP) is thrilled to present the Arts Club Theatre Company production of The Birds and the Bees by Mark Crawford, directed by Lauren Taylor. Just in time for warmer weather, budding leaves and blossoming flowers, The Birds and the Bees is the perfect comedy to usher in the Springtime.
A Groundbreaking Artist's Story Comes to the Stage in World Premiere
Few know of Selma Burke, the Black American sculptor who played a major role in the Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1920s and 30s. Among her works is a bas-relief plaque of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which is now widely accepted to be the basis for the design on the American dime, and something for which she never received credit within her lifetime.
The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon Returns to Alberta Theatre Projects!
Alberta Theatre Projects (ATP) is thrilled to be bringing W.O. Mitchell’s hilarious smash-hit comedy, The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon, to the Martha Cohen Theatre. Calgary will be heating up with incredible curling action and plenty of stories to share this February: the first week of the production coincides with the final week of the 2024 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Made in Italy, Inspired in Alberta
Get ready to take in a great night of family, music, laughs, and food as Theatre Calgary and presenting partner Alberta Theatre Projects welcome Farren Timoteo to the Martha Cohen Theatre for his funny and lively one-person show, Made in Italy. A tour-de-force solo show, Made in Italy is a comedic chronicle of the generational differences in an immigrant family set in 1970s Jasper, Alberta.
Alberta Theatre Projects takes on Teenage Dick
Playwright Mike Lew has taken two of the most dramatic things known to humankind – Shakespeare and high school – and put them together in the hilarious and sharp-witted dark comedy that will close out Alberta Theatre Projects’ 2022-23 Season. The smash hit play was originally programmed for the company’s 2020-21 Season but had to be put on hold due to the pandemic. The long-awaited production will finally be hitting the Martha Cohen Theatre stage this April.