Local Entertainment

Burlesque show If chocolate eggs and Easter bunnies are a touch too tame for you, Send in the Girls Burlesque is all set to kick up their heels, shimmy across the stage and perform a striptease.

PREVIEW When Love Comes to Town Cosmopolitan Music Jazz Orchestra & 6 Minute Warning Thursday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Blvd. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 at door.

Art Gallery of St. Albert Artists from the Nina Haggerty Collective bring Retinal Circus to the gallery space . Until Sat., March 31. The gallery has relocated to its temporary new space during extensive renovations. # 100, 6D Perron St.

Single release Last Thursday, St. Albert country singer Hailey Benedict was nominated for Youth Artist Award at the Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts. Unfortunately she didn’t receive it.

For two aspiring chefs, Paul Kane High students Brandon Elias and Joseph Fletcher, their goal of attending culinary school just received a big boost.

The battle royale of the literary world is getting the local treatment once again as Canada Reads takes place at the St. Albert Public Library next Friday evening.

Dynasty at Die-Nasty Edmonton’s favourite live improvised soap opera is back for more cheesy gossip at the beautiful Varscona Theatre every Monday starting at 7:30 p.m.

PREVIEW Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Jr. Phoenix Tales Productions March 20 and 21 at 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Arden Theatre 5 St. Anne Street Tickets: $15, $10 seniors at door or via email at phoenixtalesproductions@gmail.

Recipients of the 2018 St. Albert Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts Awards are: Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Dr.

PREVIEW Jim and Penny Malmberg CD Release Friday, March 16, doors at 7 p.m. The Aviary 9314 – 111 Ave. Tickets: $25 advance at www.yeglive.ca or $30 at door. Ticket price includes an album copy. A CD release party is pretty much what it says.