Local Arts

It's going to be a fantastic show. That's the word from several of the students who will appear in this year's Showcase of the Performing Arts at Chatelech Secondary School on Tuesday, April 8. The annual showcase has a new twist this year.

Maggie Spencer is a likeable heroine who has seized the prime of her life - her 50s - to prove that she can sleuth with the best of them.

The Melville boys are an odd couple. Of the two brothers, Lee is the more sober, married and stuck in a rut in the eyes of his brother. Owen is single, lusty and determined to bring more laughs into Lee's life.

Little Mosque on the Prairie is coming to the Coast. Producer Michael Snook will be bringing the hit CBC comedy to Sechelt March 28 to April 2.

Allison Crowe has a big, big voice. Last Saturday evening, the Canadian songstress held a near capacity crowd at the Heritage Playhouse in thrall during a powerful performance that included original compositions as well as popular covers.

Ulrich Schaffer is a poet, a photographer and a philosopher.

There was a good reason why soprano Elizabeth Currie was teamed up with the Choralations Children's Choir in a pleasing double feature concert presented by the Sunshine Coast Music Society at St. Hilda's last Friday.

Nick and Juanita - Livin' in my Dreams plays with the effects of love (or its absence) on Juanita, a woman who is trying to reconcile her fugitive brain and her adorably naïve heart, and Nick, a man seemingly lacking in both.

The Coast Contemporary Dancers got the jump on dance season with their annual Spring Into Dance recital at the Heritage Playhouse last weekend.

CBC's 2008 Canada Reads competition nominee, Thomas Wharton, prize winning author of Icefields, will launch the Sunshine Coast Arts Council's spring reading series March 14 at 8 p.m.