All in Downstage
Downstage Artistic Producer, Katherine Rawlinson, sat down with Bitch Sassidy, co-creator with Karla Marx, of GoGo Battles about Motel Theatre's upcoming one-of-a-kind experience you don't want to miss. This is a prime-time satirical feminist wrestling mini-series event for the ages!
Hailed as “hysterically funny, brilliant, brutal” by Now Magazine, Beautiful Man makes its Alberta premiere in the Motel Theatre at Arts Commons. Written by the Hamilton-born Erin Shields who is known for her sharp lens interrogating the negative depictions of women in literature, Beautiful Man is a biting satire about the portrayal of women in film and television, co-produced by Downstage and Verb Theatre.
Dive into the creative minds of playwright solar punks, envisioning radical pluralistic futures where nature and community thrive in this series of staged readings from Climate Change Theatre Action 2023 - All Good Things Must Begin.
Arts Commons is heating up this spring with Downstage’s Stage It Festival of new works! Downstage will host four days of theatre, music and more in Motel Theatre, Arts Commons. This fresh festival includes a new audio play from award winning local playwright, Tara Beagan plus three new plays that were created as part of Downstage’s Stage It Program.
Being queer in Alberta's not for the faint of heart. Your sex toys' batteries keep dying from the cold, your bar doubles as a senior's dance hall, and your government keeps trying to sell you on the merits of conversion therapy. But while your community's smaller, it's also uniquely awesome.
As many arts companies are enjoying a quiet summer, Downstage is just heating up. This month their professional development program, which was launched during the pandemic and is embarking on their first season on in person collaboration, invites two new creator-producer duos into the building. Read on to learn more about these aspiring theatre professionals.
