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Monthly Archives: February 2023
On a journey through the universe: The Space Between Stars headlines SkirtsAfire 2023
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You — you alone will have stars as no one else has them.” — The Little Prince, Saint-Exupéry And the space between them is yours to claim, too, as theatre artist Christine Lesiak has discovered in … Continue reading
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Tagged clown theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Play The Fool Festival, SkirtsAfire Festival 2023, Small Matters Theatre
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From the mean streets of New Jersey, a jukebox musical with two dozen hits and a real story. Jersey Boys at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The history of the jukebox musical is riddled with synthetic duds (like robbing a cash machine, and finding Monopoly money). The stand-outs that rise above are few and far between. Jersey Boys is one. Judging by … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway hits, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jersey Boys, The Four Seasons
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Getting the jump on time: Love Is For Poor People and The Exquisite Hour, a Lemoine double-bill at Teatro Live!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “So, tonight we’re going to be remembering my glorious future….” declares the glamorous and worldly star ‘Her’ we meet in Love Is For Poor People. In the new Stewart Lemoine that premieres Friday as half of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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A knock-out production of The Royale at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s got a powerful, bruising story to tell, lifted from early 20th century history, where boxing, celebrity and racial hatred in America deliver a maximum sucker punch. But it’s the theatrical right hook on which that … Continue reading
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Tagged boxing history, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jack John, Jack Johnson
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Now we know what we’ve been missing: fun. Ronnie Burkett’s Daisy Theatre is back at Theatre Network with Little Willy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was one of those nights out in the theatre that make you know what you’ve been missing. Fun. Surprise. A feeling you’d have to call wonder — when you wake up the next morning and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Ronnie Burkett, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, The Daisy Theatre, the F!*#@$G Festival, Theatre Network
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Behind the red door: a Forever Home for Rapid Fire Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A Forever Home is for dreaming in. For feeling you have a place in the world, imagining your potential, getting creative. At 42, Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton’s premier improv company and its longest running, is experienced … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Old Strathcona, Rapid Fire Theatre, Strathcona telephone exchange, TELUS, Theatre Network, Theatresports, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A week of many choices on Edmonton stages of every shape and size
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A crazy week in Edmonton theatre is underway. (So don’t go trying to land a stage from which to deliver your own innovative modern dance movement memoir; they’re all occupied.) •At the Citadel, the much postponed … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Opera Nuova, RISER Edmonton, Theatre Network, U of A Studio Theatre
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What’s on at Another F!*#@$G Festival at Theatre Network? Hey, Jesus and Shakespeare will be there
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Yes, Edmonton, Another F!*#@$G Festival is coming at you. Find the festivities — multi-disciplinary, adult, contemporary — at Theatre Network, in their beautiful new Roxy on 124th St. starting Tuesday And here’s big-shot validation: Shakespeare and … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital City Burlesque, Cutis Trent, Dammitammy Productions, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, House of Hush Burlesque, Larry Louie, Marv 'N Berry, Nextfest, Ryan Parker, The Daisy Theatre, The Pansy Craze, The Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Theatre Network
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A new season, a new mission, all new work: Thou Art Here in 2023
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A dozen years ago, a couple of emerging Edmonton theatre artists in love with Shakespeare started a theatre collective that, light on its feet, would take them along with their favourite playwright to the people — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, alternative Shakespeare, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Good Women Dance, immersive theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
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The feel-anxious comedy of First Date, at the Mayfield. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Are you ever gonna find The One?” wonders the rousing opening number of First Date, the funny, sweetly unassuming little romantic comedy musical that opened Friday at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre. A chorus tots up rather … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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