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Monthly Archives: April 2025
Lots to see on Edmonton stages this week, a small survey of the landscape
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, Edmonton. You have choices for your evenings out at the theatre this week: two Canadian comedies, a wicked Brit satire, a multi-disciplinary arts festival, a stage adaptation of a much-loved novel, a prairie love story, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jabulani Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Prairie Strange Productions, Punctuate! Theatre, Ribbon Rouge Foundation, Shadow Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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“Is anyone out there?” En route to love, the long way round: Alphabet Line at Fringe Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “My name is Duncan J Hayes. I live in Yonker on the Alphabet Line. Is anyone out there?” The recurring refrain in Alphabet Line is a call out into the wild blue yonder of the Saskatchewan … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Prairie Strange Productions
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Crossing the great rural-urban prairie frontier: AJ Hrooshkin’s Alphabet Line, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There can be nothing quite like the vast isolating distances of the prairies for locating a play about disconnection — between rural and urban, farm and city, booking learning and blue-collar life experience. And the playwright … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Prairie Strange Productions
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We’re all good people, right? Up the property ladder in Radiant Vermin, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a week when “housing crisis” and “starter home” got batted around like pingpong balls (in both our official languages) at the leaders’ debates, here’s a Faustian comedy that’s eerily in sync. It’s dark and smiley, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Philip Ridley
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Four guys under a streetlamp: Jersey Boys at the Mayfield, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca All jukebox musicals are not created equal. And there’s a notable example, currently running at the Mayfield, that rises above the others the way Frankie Valli’s legendary falsetto levitates off the stage and into your brain. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jersey Boys, jukebox musicals, Mayfield Theatre
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The high price of a dream home: Trevor Schmidt talks about the dark satire Radiant Vermin, at Northern Light
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Really shocking,” says Trevor Schmidt cheerfully of the wicked satire that opens Friday as the finale of Northern Light Theatre’s ‘Making A Monster’ season. “And really funny.” He compares the appealing, perky young couple we … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Philip Ridley
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Workin’ his way back to us: Danny Austin comes home to direct Jersey Boys at the Mayfield
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Life, like theatre, has its dramatic arcs. Here’s one: I’m sitting across the table with an artist who has heard the close harmonies of Big Girls Don’t Cry (-yi-yi) delivered from stages and in rehearsal halls … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Jersey Boys, jukebox musicals, Mayfield Theatre
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A 10-year Marv n’ Berry retrospective at the Varscona
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Where do hit sketch comedy troupes come from anyhow? Ten years ago, the once-upon-a time of the Marv n’ Berry story, five improvisers found themselves hanging out, onstage and off-, at the Bonfire Festival. They were … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bonfire Festival, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton sketch comedy, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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A family haunting: Jupiter, Colleen Murphy’s new Canadian epic at Theatre Network. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “The future doesn’t happen ahead of time,” says a character in Jupiter, clinging to shards of hope for change. But the baleful grandeur, and dark vivid theatricality, of this new multi-generational family epic from the dauntless … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Colleen Murphy, Edmonton theatre, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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