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There’s been an invasion of wimple-clad nuns at Bellerose Composite High School as the music theatre program debuts The Sound of Music at the Arden Theatre Feb. 17 to 19. “It’s chaos. There’s nuns everywhere.

Despite an overall trim to arts and culture spending, St. Albert’s Arts and Heritage Foundation (AHF) is breathing a sigh of relief in the realization the cuts could have been worse.

A year ago, the highly successful Nevermore: The Imaginary Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe scooped up seven Sterling Haynes Awards.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took about four back-to-back episodes of Friends with two-dozen main characters and set their intersecting lives in the world of Crash with the frenzied timeline of 24? Of course you haven’t.

Only the stonehearted would be unsympathetic to the predicament of two adolescent protagonists in Beautiful Thing, Jonathan Harvey’s eye-opening comedic drama about a boy who falls maddeningly in love with the boy next door.

Only the masterful Stephen Sondheim could lift Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street , from the grotesque to the sublime.

What do you get when you take almost 200 artists, one big dream and the organizational skills to successfully navigate through a logistical nightmare? The answer is Kunamokst , the name of the latest mural project by Lewis Lavoie and Phil Alain of Mu

An Internet search engine brings together three of the strangest bedfellows in I Google Myself , opening Friday at Northern Light Theatre (NLT).

Choreographing a ballet for 120 dancers seems like a mammoth project for any ballet mistress. However, for Sophia Leong, artistic director of St. Albert Ballet Academy, it’s just another crazy day in a very hectic schedule.

Doran Werner, 21, is the first to admit he’s not a natural mimic. Which makes the role of a Cockney adolescent in Beautiful Thing, opening Wednesday at the Walterdale Playhouse, even more challenging.