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Monthly Archives: December 2017
Surprise! A holiday theatre quiz
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Curl up, wear thermal socks, check out our review of 2017 theatre highlights, and try our detoxifying winter theatre quiz. What sport is studied, in detailed and scholarly fashion, in the Stewart Lemoine comedy Shocker’s Delight, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, theatre quiz
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Looking back: Edmonton theatre in 2017
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shakespeare In Love, the playful, sumptuously romantic opening gambit of Daryl Cloran’s first season as the Citadel’s new artistic director, took us into the world of 17th century London theatre. Crazy deadlines, fraught rehearsals, fragile egos, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broken Toys Theatre, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Hadestown, Hope and Hell Theatre, Impossible Mongoose, L'UniThéâtre, MacEwan University, MadFandango, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Theatre Network, Triffo Theatre, What It Is Theatre, Workshop West
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“The hottest show in town”: the unmissable Burning Bluebeard brings its strange magic back for the holidays
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s playful, it’s dark, it’s magical. Dave Horak’s production of Burning Bluebeard is back on the Roxy stage. And what a strange and wonderful Christmas show it is. You won’t see anything like it anywhere. I … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bluebeard, Christmas pantos, Dave Horak, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Roxy Performance Series, The Neo-Futurists, Theatre Network
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Holiday traditions in every size and shape
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton theatre knows that holiday traditions come in every size and shape, layer on layer, reimagined or reinvented. Have a gander at these: PANTO AND POST-PANTO PANTO At Fort Edmonton, starting tonight in the vintage Capitol … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Christmas pantos, Citadel Club, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton holiday shows, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Rapid Fire Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Theatre Network at the Roxy, Yednist, Zeidler Hall
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Bill and Ted are back in the ’80s, rockin at the Mayfield
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The scene: Tuesday night, and a packed house at the Mayfield. The last time we met them — hey, last year around this time at the Mayfield — Bill and Ted were erupting from a time-travelling … Continue reading
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Tagged 12tnight.ca, 80s rock, Dave Horak, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Van Wilmott
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Burning Bluebeard: out of the flames and into the festive season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the resolutely cheery world of holiday entertainments, where the halls (and not your relatives) get decked and grinches see the errors of their ways, there is nothing quite like the macabre, strangely joyful circus/vaudeville that … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bluebeard, Burning Bluebeard, Dave Horak, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, The Neo-Futurists
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The Citadel’s A Christmas Carol: a new addition to the Scroogian gallery
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When a frozen man declares, with some heat, that “Christmas, sir, is a cheat!” you’re in the presence of a Christmas tradition. And there’s magic to it: Ebenezer Scrooge, the poster boy for last-minute heart thaws, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Bob Baker, Citadel Theatre, Ebenezer Scrooge, Edmonton theatre, Tom Wood, Wayne Paquette
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Yule Be Swell! Teatro La Quindicina’s musical comedy concert tonight
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The stockings were hung by the green room with care…. In the fraught world of Yuletide concerts (which account for a disproportionate percentage of the world’s supply of opening night nerves), you have a chance tonight … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Christmas concerts, Edmonton theatre, screwball comedy, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, The Importance of Being Earnest
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