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Monthly Archives: December 2024
Two off-centre homegrown holiday musicals return, bigger and fancier, this week! First, Grindstone’s Die Harsh. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the week that two original bona fide homegrown holiday musicals return to the stage — both unconventional, both expanded and enhanced from their 2023 editions — to deck the hall (well, two different halls). … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Orange Hub, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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There’s magic in those high-strung puppets: Little Dickens, the Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes at Theatre Network, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As Bah Humbug!s encircle the globe at this time of year, know this: There is nothing in the world like Ronnie Burkett’s riotous adults-only Little Dickens, in which the high-strung marionette artistes of the Daisy Theatre, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, marionette theatre, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Theatre Network
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The fury of desperation: the punk rock play Brother Rat at Edmonton Fringe Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a show that demanded the audience ‘listen to me!’ and won’t take no — not to mention maybe, or we’ll see and maybe get back to you later — for an answer, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, NoMeansNo, punk rock musicals, ReadyGo Theatre
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A multi-dimensional life in the theatre: the mind- and heart-expansion effect of Jim DeFelice
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With the passing in October of Jim DeFelice, at 87, a multi-talented theatre artist and a true theatre community mentor are, at one blow, gone from us. Without him this theatre town of ours seems a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Studio Theatre, Theatre Network Playwrights Theatre, U of A drama department, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West
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Little Dickens: Ronnie Burkett’s marionettes return to Theatre Network to upend a Christmas classic
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s the old puppeteer joke,” says Ronnie Burkett who has a lifetime supply of same. “Build a holiday show, and you know what you’re doing every December.” Which brings us to Little Dickens, opening Thursday at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Edmonton theatre, puppet theatre, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, The Cultch, Theatre Network
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