Addams Family, fall fair and CIFF: Calgary entertainment this weekend
It's another busy weekend in Calgary entertainment options, so here's our weekly roundup to give you some options.
The Addams Family
Let's start with something spooky. Front Row Centre is presenting a new show called The Addams Family.
It features the lovable characters we all know but in an original musical format. Wednesday Addams is grown up, and she has fallen for someone from a "respectable" family.
She tells her father but swears him to secrecy, which puts Gomez in an awkward position with his wife, Morticia.
It runs until Oct. 5 at Beddington Theatre Arts Centre.
Fully Committed
Birnton Theatricals presents Fully Committed by Becky Mode.
It's a one-man comedy with Griffin Cork. He was most recently in Shakespeare by the Bow's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
He's also the son of noted Calgary-based actor Karen Johnson-Diamond.
Cork plays 40 different characters in this production, and the show ran on Broadway with Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson in the role.
It follows the life of an out-of-work actor who answers the reservation line at a popular restaurant in Manhattan.
Fully Committed is on at Lunchbox Theatre until Oct. 5.
And in other theatre mentions, the Shakespeare Company opens The Tempest this week. It also runs until Oct. 5. And over at Vertigo Theatre, Strangers on a Train is on the tracks until Oct. 13.
Community Fall Fair
Fall is fast approaching with Monday as the first official day of autumn. So, the Calgary Stampede is hosting a Community Fall Fair.
It includes a pumpkin spice pancake breakfast, wagon rides and a market.
That goes Saturday at Enmax Park from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Lots of film options
The Calgary International Film Festival is underway, and there are lots of options for filmgoers of all types.
You still have 10 days to enjoy all the diversity, until it wraps on Sept. 29.
Beakerhead
Another festival fully underway right now is the mashup of art, science and engineering called Beakerhead.
The main event Saturday night is called The Spectacle. It brings together more than 20 engineered art installations at Prince's Island Park, including a fire-breathing dragon, a Mad Max Ride and a giant Lite-Brite.
It comes to a close Sunday.
