Pull out your laugh track. Rapid Fire, the company with the region’s sharpest, wittiest improvisers gets ready to jump on a laugh-a-minute soapbox one more time.
The Edmonton improvisers, including St. Albert’s Matt Alden, have created Catch-23, a competitive scenario where three troupers get exactly 23 minutes each to outperform the others. Each show features RFT’s finest improvisers facing off against the cream of the capital region’s improv scene.
The Saturday series runs at the Citadel Theatre on Oct. 1, 8, 15 and 22. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are at the door.
Hit the Jive Productions launches a clown festival with all its funny moments, imperfections and thought-provoking lingo.
The Edmonton Clown Festival brings to the region multiple forms of clowning from the red-nose clowns to buffoons to physical comedy.
Running today and tomorrow at La Cité Francophone are clown shorts, full-length shows, a cabaret and a clown panel.
St. Albert’s Alexandra Dawkins pairs up with Jake Tkaczyk for Pride & Pre-Jeu-Dice, a social conversation around the LGBTQ plus community.
Tickets are $20 for one show. Check out the entire schedule at www.hitthatjive.ca.
Pro Coro Canada jumps into the new season with a salute to Alberta Culture Days. Stars!, held Sunday, Oct. 2 at All Saints Cathedral is an afternoon of popular, contemporary music sung by local stars.
Artistic director Michael Zaugg combines the performances of singer-songwriters Erin Kay, Lindsey Walker, Ken Stead, Amber Suchy and Darren Frank with the 24-member professional choir.
The concert starts at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 adults, $25 seniors/students, at the door.
The Edmonton Recital Society is hosting an emerging artist series on Sunday, Oct. 2 at Holy Trinity Anglican Church.
Pianist Sarah Hoyt, a cross-continental musician, will perform a variety of repertoire including Maurice Ravel’s Miroirs, Samy Moussa’s A l’assaut des jardins, Alexander Scriabin’s Sonata No. 2 – Sonata Fantasia, and Claude Debussy’s La cathĂ©drale engloutie.
The recital starts at 2 p.m. Holy Trinity Anglican Church is at 10037 – 84 Ave.
