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Monthly Archives: December 2021
Richard Gishler: Edmonton theatre has lost part of its story and its heart
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A hard year in theatre got harder still in December. With the passing this month of actor/ playwright Richard Gishler, at 74, this theatre town has lost some of its lustre: part of its origin story, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Stage West, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2021: the year in Edmonton theatre, part two
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2021 was the year a mystery box, gift-wrapped in silver with a Do Not Open warning, arrived at the house. At showtime three days later, it turned out to contain cues for a play — no, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta Musical Theatre, AZ-MAP, Azimuth Theatre, Bright Young Things, Citadel Theatre, Die-Nasty, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, EPCOR Heart + Soul, Grindstone Comedy Theatre, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, RISER, Teatro La Quindicina, The Plain Jane Theatre Company, Thou Art Here Theatre, Vrscona Theatre
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2021: the year Edmonton theatre returned to live (part one)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In theatre, 2021 is a year that isn’t ending as it began. It was more than half over when The Pivot pivoted. Live performance gradually, cautiously ventured out of its online exile, where it had creatively … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, best of theatre 2021, Citadel Theatre, Dana Wylie, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Grindstone Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Skirts AFire Festival, Teatro La Quindicina, The Major Matt Mason Collective, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Merry, merry … further suggestions for your holiday entertainment this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the week you can get Santa to say Merry Christmas to you in a language of your choice — for $4.38 (including fees). It’s also the week you can go backstage in the notoriously … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Ballet Edmonton, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Festival Players, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shumka, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Prospero, Varscona Theatre, Whizgiggling Productions
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Sharing the story: a new version of Lake of the Strangers opens the Fringe Theatre season on stage and screen
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the play you’ll see Saturday night — either live on Fringe Theatre’s Westbury stage or live-streamed on Fringe TV from there — you’ll meet two little Indigenous brothers, 10 and seven. They’re out on a … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Indigenous storytelling, Naheyawin, Sucker Creek Reserve
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A windfall for actresses: Brad Fraser’s 5@50 at Walterdale
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens Wednesday live on the Walterdale stage does something rare in theatre. In a world where aging is a vanishing act for women artists, Brad Fraser’s 5@50 provides a windfall: five big, juicy … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brad Fraser, community theatre, Edmonton theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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A shared responsibility for human happiness: A Christmas Carol is back at the Citadel, live. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Snow’s a given. Sunset before happy hour, also a given. But in Edmonton it’s never really “beginning to look a lot like Christmas” till A Christmas Carol opens at the Citadel. That’s just the way it … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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A bona fide hit with Jason in the title? Say, what? The second, third, and fourth wave of Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca C’mon, who could have predicted that the hottest ticket in the first half of the Edmonton theatre season would be a show with “Jason Kenney” in the title? Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer is a bona … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre
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