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Laughter and music on tap with Lunchbox and Stage West's upcoming seasons

Article content Last year was Lunchbox's 50th anniversary season. This new one launches in October with Ontario playwright Kristen Da Silva's Beyond the Sea. This comedy looks at a chance meeting of two strangers whose banter brings them closer to a relationship they both need. Da Silva is a two-time recipient of the Stage West Pechet Family Comedy Award. This is the first production of one of her plays in Calgary. Article content Article content Lunchbox's November play, Ridge, examines a Canadian soldier's experience during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, told through storytelling and live music provided by The Fugitives. It played at the Massey Theatre in New Westminster last year, and spawned the album Trench Songs. Article content Article content Lunchbox's holiday show, How Patty and Joanne Won High School Gold at the Grand Christmas Cup Winter Dance Competition, comes courtesy of Edmonton playwright Trevor Schmidt, whose play Monstress is Vertigo's January offering. Schmidt is no stranger to Lunchbox audiences, who were delighted by his Flora and Fawna's Field Trip and its sequel, Beaver Fever. Article content In January, Lunchbox presents Calgary's multi-award-winning actor Christopher Hunt in his solo show Ribstone, in which he promises to tell audiences about his family's first settlement in Alberta, all the while strumming his banjo. This show is part of One Yellow Rabbit's 2026 High Performance Rodeo. Article content Article content Lunchbox's season will end in March with Thank You for Your Order, by Toronto playwright Jessica Moss. It's an absurdist comedy about a worker at an online shopping centre who falls in love with a customer based on his orders, so she mails herself to him, testing his actual relationship. Article content Stage West will launch its 43rd season in September with the interactive murder-mystery comedy Shear Madness. Set in a hair salon, the woman in the upstairs apartment is murdered, and the audience gets to help the detective trap the murderer. The trick in this one is that it really could be any of the suspects, so the killer's identity can change with each performance. Article content The dinner theatre's holiday show is the 2011 Broadway musical Sister Act, based on the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg film. A singer witnesses a murder, so she is placed in protective custody in a convent where she naturally clashes with the Mother Superior.