A Long Way From Home
John From Dawson, who is a Dawson City-originated, Whitehorse-based rapper who’s been working a long time to make his music dreams come true.
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No Strings Attached
No string attached. The origin of the idiom dates back to the 18th-century and was often associated with one’s integrity…
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Franklin Plot Show for new album
Franklin came together as a pandemic hobby when drummer and co-vocalist Evan Joel moved to Whitehorse from Vancouver…
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Reintroducing Selina Heyligers-Hare As Hendrika
No Yukon music lover needs an introduction to Selina Heyligers-Hare. The folk-fusion singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist…
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Elisapie shows in Whitehorse and Dawson
Elisapie grew up in Salluit, an Inuit community in the northern Quebec region of Nunavik. She has lived in Montreal for almost 25 years…
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Going Global
When Elijah Bekk was 20, a doctor told him it was time to accept that he would have to live without the full use of his hands.
‘Rain’ Video Shot in Dawson City
Between its vast natural landscapes and historic sites such as the Palace Grand Theatre, Dawson City makes a breathtaking filming location.
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54-40 Celbrates 45 years with new Album Porto
The veteran Canadian rock band performed a free concert at Shipyards Park earlier this year, as part of the celebrations…
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Wyrd: A Musical UnFairytale
The idea for Wyrd first came about after playwrights Katherine McCallum and Angela Drainville met for the first time in 2017.
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Stonecliff: White Pass and Beyond (Part 1/2)
When Michael Heney was just 14, he ran away from the family farm in the Ottawa Valley to work for an uncle who was building
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Splattering Comedy
Whitehorse, it seems, has such an insatiable appetite for high-camp horror that the Guild Theatre has added another week to its run of Evil Dead:
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A Swing Through Jazz History
Jazz has come a long way over the decades. What started as a call-and-response song though the cotton fields of the south, has now become
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Leapin’ Lizards! It’s Annie
Curious Fact #1: stories about plucky orphan kids make wildly popular musical theatre fare. Witness Oliver!, Anne of Green Gables, and Annie. Curious Fact #2:
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Puppets, Comedy, and Gore
Whitehorse has an awesome art scene. This month, The Guild will try to make it more awesome when its production of Cannibal! The Musical hits
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Sibling Revelry
Brigitte and Caroline Desjardins-Allatt were well into elementary school before learning about their father’s musical past — and the instruments stashed in the family garage.
Varietease is so baaaad, it’s good
Burlesque cabaret uses psychology in such a delicious way: it is a naughty place and we feel naughty being there. So we throw decorum to
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This couple makes beautiful music
Individually, the members of Duo Diorama are expert and greatly respected. Winston Choi, the pianist, was laureate of the 2003 Honens International Piano Competition and
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Top 10 movies: A walk on the mild side
(Part 2 of 2) Last week I began listing my favourite movies of all time. I only got to six of them and they all
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Just a big wacky musical about corruption
”It’s a huge show,” Todd Duckworth the director tells me. Twenty people in the cast, four in the band. “When you see 20 people stretched
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Giant Rat finally treated as honoured citizen (psst … go see this musical)
Everyone loves a “lovable rogue”. In the Guild Society’s musical comedy, The Man From the Capital, you get 20 rogues to pick from. The plot
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The music of Frank Zappa plays on
I remember where I was when I first heard Frank Zappa. It was 1980 and I was at C.F.B. Borden; Joe’s Garage Act I was
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Guild goes ‘Into the Woods’ and gets its wish: Magic
This is a solid performance by a great cast. In Into the Woods nearly everything is sung. They pull it off with gusto!
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Into the Playground
Director Gerald Isaac thinks a playground makes an ideal setting for the Guild Theatre‘s production of the musical comedy Into the Woods, which opens next
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A Musical From Beyond
“At times it’s felt like trying to build a house with popsicle sticks and paperclips, but we’ve been ridiculously persistent and resourceful,” says Britt Small,
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Nordic Fantasy
The 19th century Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, is best known for the naturalistic dialogue and depth of character in such stage classics as Hedda Gabler,
From Eden to Legoland
For several years, Amitai Marmorstein has periodically donned a drab brown uniform, complete with long stockings, shorts,vest and tie and Harry Potter glasses. Thus garbed
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