Local Entertainment

Grandview Stage at Cow Lake hosts The Deep Dark Woods on Sept. 30.

After 25 years of marriage, Alice and Henry have hit the dreaded marital doldrums.Alice is no longer content to watch TV with her hubby night after night, and decides to try to put some sizzle back into their tepid relationship, in Central Alberta Theatre’s season-opening production of Sexy Laundry, by Michele Riml.

Homesickness Harmony and the Poetics of Hope, runs at the Harris-Warke Gallery until Oct. 21. This art installation by Red Deer artist Robin Lambert, reflects the need to connect and belong and to be part of something. Call the gallery at 403-346-8937 for more information.

One-day art instruction sessions on developing techniques with pen and ink, watercolour and pastel are being offered through The Gallery on Main in Lacombe this fall.

Transplanted roots music duo Jesse Dee and Jacquie B are briefly pulling off Hwy 2 to harmonize together on Friday night at The Hideout, south of Red Deer.

Nancy Gibson has the distinction of once being grounded by a volcano. Barring any other natural disasters, the internationally-known soprano will perform Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss on Saturday, Sept. 24, with the RDSO.

Victory on the Field, a new exhibit, at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame Museum, explores the effects of the First and Second World Wars in Alberta and how war influenced so many Albertans when sport and war collided.

Velvet Olive welcomes Aaron Spohr on Sept. 22 at 8:30 p.m.The Hideout presents the F-Holes bring their roots music on tonight, followed by Jesse Dee and Jacquie B., with 100 Mile House on Sept. 23.

The Backyardigans are coming to Red Deer on Saturday to perform an out-of-this-world live stage show for pre-schoolers at the Memorial Centre.

Arthur Samuel Barker has spun a lifetime of stories into his debut CD, Somewhere Under the Radar.While the 60-year-old Red Deer resident has been making music off and on, between working on British oil rigs and in the trucking industry, he only lately got around to making a full-length album.