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Monthly Archives: October 2023
Audrey II is coming for you: Little Shop of Horrors at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a musical that makes a case for smart people taking a dumb movie in hand and re-potting it — a strategy that’s backfired elsewhere with depressing regularity this century — it’s got … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Arts Club Theatre Company, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Little Shop of Horrors
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The corrected version: The art of the thriller and what not to tell you about Mob, opening the Workshop West season. Meet star Kristin Johnston
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are many things you can’t, mustn’t, know in advance about Mob. For your own good. So many, in fact, that it’s tricky for Kristin Johnston to talk about the hit Quebec thriller that opens the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catherine-Anne Toupin, Dammitammy Productions, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Quebec theatre, Teatro Live!, Théâtre La Licorne, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The art of the thriller and what not to tell you about Mob, opening the Workshop West season. Meet star Kristin Johnston
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are many things you can’t, mustn’t, know in advance about Mob. For your own good. So many, in fact, that it’s tricky for Kristin Johnston to talk about the hit Quebec thriller that opens the … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian thrillers, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Teatro Live!, Théâtre La Licorne, Walterdale Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The collision of worlds and mythologies: Makram Ayache brings The Hooves Belonged To The Deer home to Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Five years ago Edmonton audiences saw an explosive new play about an immigrant kid, Arab and gay, negotiating the conflicting calls of cultures and generations, trying to find his way into a new life. That was … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Buddies in Bad Times, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, In Arms Collective, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto theatre
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Finding harmony: stories from inside the choir. Crescendo! at Shadow Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What exactly is it about singing, and especially singing with other people, that lures people into choirs to make music together? That’s the question at the heart of Sandy Paddick’s Crescendo!. And not only is it … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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The dark glitter of a dream cruise on the River Styx: Pochsy IV. A new Karen Hines satire at Theatre Network. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s an unnerving glitter and queasy hilarity to the satire that launches the season at Theatre Network. “I dreamed you, I manifested you,” proposes the figure who appears before us — a tarnished angel? a wicked … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Calgary theatre, Edmonton theatre, High Performance Rodeo, Karen Hines, Mump and Smoot, Theatre Network
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Couch dwellers arise! It’s a crazy week in Edmonton theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a week in Edmonton theatre that’s crazy with possibilities. Which is to say this is no time to be thinking of staying home, much less renewing your dibs on the couch. Two Edmonton theatres launch their … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, Karen Hines, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, U of A Studio Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Crescendo!, Shadow Theatre’s first-ever musical, opens the 30th anniversary season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the last three decades Shadow Theatre has produced plays of every size, shape, tone, and sensibility, often contemporary but not always. Shakespeare, Chekhov, Noel Coward have Shadow credits; so do American big-shots like Paula Vogel, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre
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She’s back! Karen Hines’s toxic pixie returns in Pochsy IV, to launch the Theatre Network season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca She’s back. We met Pochsy at the Fringe in 1992, a smudgy-eyed chalky-faced kewpie with a lethal mixture of charm and vitriol coursing through her veins — and that sweet Clara Bow smile. In Pochsy’s Lip … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, High Performance Rodeo, Karen Hines, Mump and Smoot, Theatre Network
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Fun (really!) with Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing, an inspired Theatre Yes 2-night production
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Well, THAT was fun!. A word that is only rarely (I need hardly remind you) applied to productions of Hamlet. The first night of The Play’s The Thing, Theatre Yes’s two-night production of Shakespeare’s longest, most … Continue reading
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Tagged Batrabbit Collective, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Guys in Disguise, L'UniThéâtre, Marv 'N Berry, Rapid Fire Theatre, Ready Go, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Yes, Workshop West
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