The Anchor Weekly – The Chestermere Lake News

Rosebud, Alberta (June 11, 2012) – Rosebud Theatre’s summer production of the musical Anne of Green Gables has opened to rave reviews and tickets are selling like ice cream! The popularity of the show has everything to do with the exceptional performances of its cast. Cassia Schramm returns to the Rosebud stage in the title role and according to Artistic Director Morris Ertman. “She is quite simply one of the most wonderfully alive performers we’ve ever had on our stage. Anne of Green Gables is a deeply personal story for Cassia, and it shows in every way in her performance. [...]

ROSEBUD – A one-act reverie on the redemptive power of love will be breathing life into audiences at the Studio Stage in Rosebud, on January 27 and 28. John Kolvenbach’s “Love Song” is the story of Beane, an oddball young man in exile from life. His successful and driven sister, Joan, along with her husband, Harry, try to make time for him in their busy lives, but no one can get through. Following a burglary at Beane’s apartment, Joan is baffled to find her brother blissfully happy and tries to unravel the story behind his mysterious new love, Molly. Kolvenbach’s [...]

ROSEBUD – When the young, handsome Prince of Wales visits Galt, Ontario at the end of the Great War in the fall of 1919, the whole town is excited to meet him. Bored with the pomp and circumstance, he slips away from his official duties and finds a young woman who would rather spend the day working in her garden than in the throngs of people hoping to catch even a glimpse of the king-to-be. Millicent “Milli” Milroy tells him exactly what she thinks about the pomposity of royalty. When the two meet, what begins as mutual disdain for each [...]

Rosebud, Alberta (January 7, 2011) – “There’s a place an hour East of Calgary where an ocean of prairie rolls down into a valley through which a railway track runs along a river where native Americans used to winter camp. Grandparents hold hands like young lovers as they walk down the street, pausing to listen to songbirds that fill the air with music no human composer can master. Students ride their bicycles down the street, rushing past with a wave on their way to class.” “Across the street Musical Director, Bill Hamm joins the farmers who gather around a collection [...]