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Monthly Archives: February 2022
Making Mischief (and laughter) en route to Neverland: Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Funny how people laugh out loud (and maybe wince a little) when you casually mention the title of the production that arrives on and above the Citadel mainstage starting Thursday. Peter Pan Goes Wrong, after all, … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged Citadel Theatre, Die-Nasty, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Improvaganza, Mischief Theatre, Peter Pan, Rapid Fire Theatre, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, Soap-A-Thon, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre
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What we inherit, what we imagine: Makram Ayache’s audioplay The Hooves That Belonged To The Deer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You have until Wednesday to catch a startlingly ambitious audioplay by Makram Ayache. And you shouldn’t miss the chance. The Hooves That Belonged To The Deer is on a grand, not to say epic, scale. Cultures, … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, audioplays, Buddies in Bad Times, Edmonton theatre, Makram Ayache
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Ten years of SkirtsAfire: amplifying the voices of women and non-binary artists
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s been a decade, amazingly, since Annette Loiselle and a couple of her actor friends, Sharla Matkin and Nadien Chu, sat at the Carrot Cafe, plotting over popcorn, red wine, and lopsided statistics. For years Loiselle, … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Avenue, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Westbury Theatre
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Old Strathcona here they come: for the first time in Workshop West history, a theatre of their own
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre is moving. Come March 1 you’ll find the venerable company, age 43, in their own theatre, in the heart of Edmonton’s entertainment district. Welcome to the newly christened Gateway Theatre in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, The Third Space, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A home of their own, in the entertainment ‘hood: Rapid Fire Theatre at 41
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’ve dreamed it for years. Now, at age 41, Rapid Fire Theatre finally has a home of their own. And it’s in the ‘hood that’s their traditional home base, Old Strathcona. Edmonton’s premier improv company is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Group2, Old Strathcona, Old Strathcona Business Association, Rapid Fire Theatre, Roxy on Gateway, Strathcona Exchange Building
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Melanie Piatocha: theatre has lost a bright talent and a questing spirit
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In this bleak mid-winter of theatre, heartbreaking news of the January death of actor Melanie Piatocha at 36 seems particularly cruel. The abrupt loss of a talent so expansive, and a quester so spirited, so restless, … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Banff Centre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Teatro La Quindicina
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Someone on your side: Berend McKenzie, Catalyst Confluence Fellow, reaches out to outsiders
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “This is about visibility!” declares Berend McKenzie with the kind of go-for-the-gusto velocity that makes time fly when you talk to them. “This is about opportunity! This is about being in the room where it happens!” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Black History Month, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Loud 'N' Queer, MacEwan University theatre arts, Victoria School of the Arts, WarnerMedia, Writers' Guild of Alberta
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Get rhythm at the Mayfield: Nashville Outlaws. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With Nashville Outlaws, the Mayfield returns to a hit revue it created and premiered some 15 years ago. And why not? In these isolating, leaden times, an homage to country music renegades Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, country music, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Nashville outlaws
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New faces in theatre: meet theatre creator/ designer Even Gilchrist
They’re young, adaptable, and creative. And as theatre returns in this late-pandemic grind, and the doors open to live audiences, we’ll be seeing the work of these theatre artists light up, and transform, the scene here, on- and backstage. You’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Azimuth Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, found theatre, RISER Edmonton, Shadow Theatre, U of A Arts, You Are Here Theatre
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New faces in theatre: meet composer/lyricist Simon Abbott
They’re young, adaptable, and creative. And as theatre returns in this late-pandemic grind, and the doors open to live audiences, we’ll be seeing the work of these theatre artists light up, and transform, the scene here, on- and backstage. Meet … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, musical theatre, political satire
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