Monthly Archives: November 2024

And opening tonight… at the Citadel and Rapid Fire

Posted on November 28, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s been the hardest of weeks at the Citadel. The death of the much-loved actor Julien Arnold during Sunday night’s preview performance of A Christmas Carol has been profoundly shocking and sad for the theatre community, artists … Continue reading →

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‘A wonder of an actor’: in Julien Arnold, we’ve lost one of our finest, and most loved, theatre artists

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We — the ‘we’ across the country — woke up this morning to the most heartbreaking and tragic theatre news. The untimely passing of Julien Arnold at 58, felled by a heart attack at the Citadel … Continue reading →

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Brother Rat: a punk rock play with music (and earplugs) opens the Fringe Theatre season

Posted on November 24, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Some kids grow up listening to Itsy Bitsy Spider, and drifting off to sleep with The Cat Came Back. The soundtrack of Erik Richards’s childhood was NoMeansNo, SNFU, Minor Threats, Bad Brains. And that high-volume punk … Continue reading →

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Hello! The Book of Mormon rings our doorbell again, at the Jube. A review

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hello! They’re back. There was a time — 14 years ago when The Book of Mormon instantly became the hottest ticket on Broadway — that assorted cultural prophets predicted fearlessly that the puckish lampoon of religion, … Continue reading →

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Big, fun, the craziest show in town: the Mayfield celebrates the big 5-0 with Flashback Fever, a review

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s the craziest show in town. Flashback Fever: the Mayfield Dinner Theatre is throwing a time-travelling bash onstage in honour of the theatre’s 50th anniversary. It’s big and it’s fun. Think about the improbability of it … Continue reading →

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‘Staying together is the happy ending’: The Ballad of Johnny and June at the Citadel, a review

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What happens to a happy ending “when it comes in the middle”? The’s what John Carter Cash, the only son of Johnny Cash and June Carter, wonders as he speculates onstage about his lineage and his … Continue reading →

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What’s new? The weekend on Edmonton stages, that’s what: three new Canadian plays and a musical

Posted on November 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey Edmonton! It’s a weekend to be surprised and excited by something new on the stages of this theatre town. As the country has found out, E-town has longtime cred as a generator and showcase of … Continue reading →

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A love story with complications, in a new musical: Des McAnuff brings The Ballad of Johnny and June to the Citadel

Posted on November 12, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Ballad of Johnny and June, the musical that opens Thursday at the Citadel is a love story, with complications. And its director and co-creator Des McAnuff, pre-rehearsal last week, is hunting for the big-impact historical … Continue reading →

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“I have become God”: Trevor Schmidt’s thriller Monstress premieres at Northern Light, a review

Posted on November 9, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You enter the Studio Theatre through fog, and discover you’re in a mysterious chamber, glowing with jewelled colours and overhung with dozens of scissors, blades pointing down at us. The centrepiece, a slab that might be … Continue reading →

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In a staccato barrage of scenes, a star is born: The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow at Shadow Theatre, a review

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening moments of Neil Grahn’s The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow, to the strains of Rule Britannia, a top soldier is getting a military medal from the Prince of Wales. Seconds later, as Francis … Continue reading →

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