Monthly Archives: June 2019

A year on Edmonton stages: the Sterling Award nominations

Posted on June 3, 2019 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A highly unusual coming-of-age coming-out musical in which a cartoonist unravels in flashback frames her mysterious family history proved the top choice of jurors, as the re-vamped 32nd annual Sterling Award nominations were announced Monday at … Continue reading →

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Weal Thyman The Third: a bouffon clown show to provoke you at Nextfest

Posted on June 3, 2019 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When you’re creating a bouffon clown show about a grotesque filthy-rich capitalist with businesses, land, money, possessions, sycophants,  and an insatiable appetite for more more more, it’s not as if you have to rack your brains … Continue reading →

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A new comedy to launch a new season at Teatro La Quindicina

Posted on June 1, 2019 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A Likely Story, says playwright Stewart Lemoine, “is one of those titles you have to Google because you can’t believe it hasn’t already been used.”  That puckish name, with its tantalizing whiff of skepticism, now belongs … Continue reading →

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