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Monthly Archives: November 2023
The Blank Who Stole Christmas: Rapid Fire Theatre’s original Christmas musical is back, with a different villain every show
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You’re a mean one, Mr. (Blank)… You’re as cuddly as a cactus/ You’re as charming as an eel….” They’ve always wanted a holiday tradition to call their own, a special Christmas show that, as Matt Schuurman … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dad's Garage, Dr. Seuss, Edmonton holiday shows, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Exchange Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre
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And so it begins, the holiday show season: a new company returns the panto to the Capitol Theatre at Fort Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca People, lighten up. It’s a theatre town, my friends, and you are sliding inexorably into the season of the holiday show, of every stripe and persuasion. It launches officially this very week, with the return of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Edmonton Christmas Market, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, pantomimes
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‘Concert and vacation’: Teatro season-opener Far Away and Long A-Gogo! A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Far Away And Long A-Gogo, the “concert and vacation” that launches the new Teatro Live season starts, quite hilariously, in the kind of impasse that showbiz is designed to trounce. It’s a medley, slowed to lugubrious … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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There’s no cure like travel: Far Away and Long A-Gogo! launches the Teatro Live season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Oh, there’s no cure like travel/ To help you unravel/ The worries of living today…. “ — Anything Goes, Cole Porter Ah, wanderlust. The journey as antidote to what ails you. “When the poor brain is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Noel Coward, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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You know you’re Canadian if … Canada Rocks: The Reboot, at the Mayfield. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know you’re Canadian if … You’re prepared to crank up the barbecue in December. You make your kids’ Halloween costumes roomy enough to fit over a snowsuit. You know that double-double doesn’t just mean toil … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian hockey, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, musical revues
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A thrilling and beautiful musical testimonial to what art and artists are all about: Hadestown at the Jube, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The musical/ folk opera that returns to Edmonton in the thrilling touring Broadway production onstage at the Jube this week will take you to Hell and back. And all along that eerie, high-stakes route through darkness, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anaïs Mitchell, Broadway Across Canada, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Orpheus and Eurydice
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How To Ruin The Holidays, a new feature film from improv stars Kevin Gillese and director Arlen Konopaki
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “At Christmas all roads lead home.” As the stand-up comedian heroine (Amber Nash) of How To Ruin The Holidays discovers, evasionary tactics may stall this inevitable Yuletide GPS, but it will not change the destination. There’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Archer, Dad's Garage, Edmonton film, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Metro Cinema, Rapid Fire Theatre
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How did we get here? the question, the cabaret, the new play, the anniversary production
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Consider for a moment the question that’s been asked — in every tone of voice, every degree of exasperation or relief, bemusement or amazement, wonder or perplexity — by every one of us, especially in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Conwitz Productions, Die-Nasty, Edmnton theatre, Foote in the Door Productions, Grindstone Theatre, Script Salon, Theatre Network, Varscona Theatre
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The freaky tangle of connections in the digital world: Mob, the thriller that opens the Workshop West season. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening moments of Mob nail you to your seat, and there’s no getting relaxed after that in the Quebec thriller that is Workshop West’s genuinely disturbing season opener. A woman (Kristin Johnston), mysteriously traumatized, drives … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catherine-Anne Toupin, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Quebec theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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