Way Off-Broadway Wednesdays has plenty of fun planned for April.
The fringe performance series at the Heritage Grill continues on Wednesday, April 3 with Southern Storytelling, featuring Willie Carlisle and Ken Waldman in an evening of southern hospitality, songs and folklore. Carlisle is an Arkansas-based folk singer and instrumentalist who comes to the stage armed with a banjo, fiddle, guitar and more. Waldman, billed as “Alaska’s fiddling poet,” boasts a resume that includes nine albums of Appalachian string music and 11 published books of poetry – not to mention the true story of surviving a plane crash.
On April 10, audiences will be treated to DO Touch That Dial, a night of improv TV with Lake Pesto – the duo of Fringe favourites Erica Bigland and Anthony Trombetta. Expect a “fast-paced improv kaleidoscope sketch comedy extravaganza,” all controlled by the audience.
April 17 will mark the return of the Story Slam competition, featuring a special guest performer and the seven storytellers who’ve put their name into the hat to compete for cash, prizes and votes at the monthly competition.
Then, on April 24, it’s the season finale of The Dive, the site-specific, sitcom-inspired show that features Al Lafrance, Morris Bartlett, Allison Melech and Devon More as four oddball characters who gather at their favourite dive bar.
Way Off-Broadway Wednesdays shows start at 7 p.m., and doors to the back room open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is on a pay-what-you-want basis (except for the Story Slam, which has $5 entry), and reservations are recommended at 604-759-0819.
The Heritage Grill is at 447 Columbia St.
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