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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alberta Theatre Projects’ 2021-22 season saw us celebrate many successes on and off the stage, including welcoming new leadership, and a record-breaking year for audience attendance! The theatre community acknowledged and honoured our reopening efforts by nominating ATP productions for 14 Betty Mitchell Awards, which recognize and celebrate outstanding achievements in Calgary professional theatre.
Can you really call yourself Canadian if you’re not familiar with the hit TV Show Kim’s Convenience? The sitcom is about a Korean Canadian shopkeeper Mr. Kim /“Appa,” his wife, Mrs. Kim/“Umma” – Korean for dad and mom - along with their daughter Janet, and estranged son Jung. It won hearts as it became a runaway hit on national television. It rose to international acclaim, aided by pickup by streaming company Netflix. Most people don’t realize that Kim's Convenience started as a stage production before it was a celebrated and award-winning television show and now you can see it live at the Martha Cohen Theatre at Arts Commons, April 13 - May 1, 2022.
