WHAT’S ON IN REGINA, DEC. 5-11
•The Regina Little Theatre presents It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, nightly through Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m. (and a Saturday matinee at 1:30 p.m.) at the Regina Performing Arts Centre. It’s the story you (most likely) know, brought to life as a 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas
Eve. Tickets are $23 for adults at the RPAC box office, 306-7792277, and online at reginapac. com.
•Saskexpress’s holiday show, A Christmas Story: The Musical, includes 19 people and one dog. The classic story, based on the 1983 film, runs this week and next at Saskexpress Theatre (2272 Pasqua St.). Shows are Thursday, Dec. 5, Friday, Dec. 6, Saturday, Dec. 7, and Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, there are matinees at 2 p.m. Check saskexpress.com for tickets.
•There’s standup comedy at the Casino Regina Show Lounge on
Thursday, Dec. 5, courtesy of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Matt Wright, Charles Haycock, Laurie Elliot and Dean Jenkinson perform starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $33 at casinoregina.com.
•If you were thinking of attending Johnny Reid’s concert at the Conexus Arts Centre on Thursday, too bad for you — it’s sold out.
•Scott Anthony will release his CD “Young Man on Scarth Street Playin’ Saxophone” and the Sisters of Mercy under the direction of Corinne Groff will have their Season Concert. That’s at The Artesian on Thursday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m.
•The Brother Brothers are identical twins who play folk music. From Brooklyn, N.Y., Adam and David Moss have drawn comparisons to Simon and Garfunkel and The Milk Carton Kids. This Grassroots Regina show is Thursday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance at Vintage Vinyl or online through eventbrite.com, or $25 at the door.
•The Regina Mandolin Orchestra is having a Christmas concert at Westminster United Church on Friday, Dec. 6, 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults at eventbrite. ca.
•Regina folk-punk band G.B.
Loon is having a cassette release party (yes, this is 2019) for new album Loonie Tunes. Bass and drum duo Mechadroid and garage-rock foursome Pop Pop Vernac open the show. That’s at The Exchange on Friday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m. Cover is $10 or pay-whatyou-can.
•The Regina Symphony Orchestra is having one of its casual Sessions concerts at the Artesian on Friday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 online or at the door.
•Jeffery Straker’s A Very Prairie Christmas tour is Friday, Dec.
6, 8 p.m. at the Casino Regina Show Lounge. The Regina singer-songwriter-pianist shares songs and stories, as he learned to do growing up on a farm near Punnichy. “Whether it was neighbours bringing instruments over to our farmhouse to play together into the wee hours of the night, singing around the piano, or hearing the sacred Christmas songs in church — there was always a musical backdrop to the holiday season. Great storytelling strung it all together. Those songs and stories have stuck with me and I want to bring some of that to the stage with this concert.” Tickets are $31.50 at casinoregina.com.
•Queen City Brass band presents Spread the Warmth on Saturday, Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m. at Knox-metropolitan United
Church. Admission is a sock collection — two pairs per adult, or one pair per child.
•Kris Alvarez hosts Burnt Sienna, a variety/talk show, at The Artesian on Saturday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 at eventbrite.ca.
•Rayannah, Respectfulchild and Sckuse perform “an intimate night of sound and colour” at T+A Vinyl on Saturday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m. ygretz opens the show. $15 at the door.
•There’s open mic comedy at Shannon’s Pub on Saturday, 8:30 p.m.
•There’s free admission at the Mackenzie Art Gallery on Sunday, Dec. 8.
•Pianist Teo Gheorghiu performs a Regina Musical Club concert on Sunday, Dec. 8, 3 p.m. at Westminster United Church.
•The Campbell Collegiate choirs and string orchestra perform their Christmas concert at First Nations University on Sunday, Dec. 8, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Admission is by donation.
•Round Midnight plays jazz music at Bushwakker on Monday, Dec. 9, 8 p.m.
•The Alley Dawgs (and special guests) celebrate 20th-century country music every Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. sharp at the Fat Badger. Admission is free.
•Feliz Navidad! Boney M and Liz Mitchell play Holiday Favourites and Classic Hits at the Conexus Arts Centre on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $39.
•Chantal Kreviazuk is having a Christmas concert at the Casino Regina Show Lounge on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 8 p.m. Tickets are $35.
•The Regina Male Voice Choir performs a Christmas Concert at Bushwakker on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 8 p.m.
•A Very Die Hard Christmas — the theatrical version of Die Hard — is being performed at the Regina Performing Arts Centre starting Wednesday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m. For tickets and information, visit reginapac.com.
•The Globe Theatre’s holiday production is a refreshing retelling of Cinderella. It runs most evenings through Dec. 29. For tickets and more information, visit globetheatrelive.com.
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