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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.

Before I saw Edge of Darkness featuring Mel Gibson as a cop, I imagined his character would be a cross between Martin Riggs and William Wallace, like a loose cannon but still articulate in his vengeance.

Avatar (PG) It’s 2154 and humanity’s technologically advanced military industrial complex is poised to plunder the mineral riches of a planet called Pandora. The only thing in their way is the dominant life form called the Na’vi.

Anyone who saw Tono at the Arden Theatre on Feb. 2 or 3 was privy to one of the most astounding indigenous shows of this decade. It was extraordinarily beautiful with dynamic dance and acrobatics, amazing music and mesmerizing imagery.