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Monthly Archives: February 2024
A-line, mini, midi, pleated … what’s on at SkirtsAfire 2024. Meet the new artistic producer Amanda Goldberg
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca SkirtsAfire, the multi-disciplinary 12-year-old festivities that celebrate and support women in the arts, is having a a transitional big-M Moment. Founder and artistic director Annette Loiselle, the veteran actor/director whose bright idea SkirtsAfire was in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsAfire Festival 2024, Sound Off
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Behind the scenes at Mermaid Legs, the theatrical centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new Beth Graham play premiering Feb. 29 as the mainstage centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival, has the best, most evocative, most intriguing, title of the season. Mermaid Legs, commissioned by the theatre and multi-disciplinary … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beth Graham, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival
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Revelling in the make-believe of theatre: Pith! at Teatro Live, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The pith helmet has returned to Edmonton. And with it, playwright Stewart Lemoine’s invitation, in a well-travelled 1997 comedy both charming and riotous, to have an exotic, liberating adventure in the theatre, along with its three … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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Andrea Menard’s Rubaboo, a Métis cabaret: songs, stories, and an emotional jouney to open your heart
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The title of the “cabaret” that opens Thursday on the Citadel’s Maclab stage borrows the Michif word for a multi-ingredient stew. In Rubaboo, Andrea Menard — the acclaimed Métis singer-songwriter/ actor/ playwright/ teacher/ founder of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Andrea Menard, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grand Theatre, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre
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Pith! The return of a signature Teatro comedy and Jana O’Connor’s ‘dream role’
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca Jana O’Connor has been hearing stories in the rehearsal room. Stories which live on in the Teatro Live! archives, of the memorably frantic, complicated journeys to opening nights of Teatro’s most travelled, most often revived, arguably … Continue reading
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Tagged CBC Radio The Irrelevant Show, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!
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‘How did you get to be here?’ Theatre adventures in NYC
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca NEW YORK — Here I am, 10 days ago, sitting in a vintage wooden booth in the Old Town Bar (an 1892 classic just off Union Square) eating fried clams. Overhearing from the next table a … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway, Edmonton theatre, Irish Repertory Theatre, MCC Theatre, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City theatre, Signature Theatre, Stephen Sondheim musicals, Under The Radar Festival
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The Mayfield announces an upcoming big five-oh anniversary season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Mayfield Theatre turns the big five-oh next season — and achievement in itself in the rigorous world of commercial theatre. And as a milestone birthday bonus, as artistic director Van Wilmott announced Monday, the lineup … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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Negotiating the darkness of the world: thoughts about This Is The Story Of The Child Ruled By Fear
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We are, none of us, dread-resistant, times being what they are. That sense of being alone and untethered in a universe that’s a chaos of crises and emergencies is a feeling lots of us know. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Gateway Theatre, Strange Victory Performance, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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