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Monthly Archives: May 2025
Into the woods, a screwball talent search: On The Banks of the Nut at Teatro. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In On The Banks Of the Nut, the vintage Stewart Lemoine screwball comedy getting an expertly acted revival at Teatro Live! (its first in 15 years) you’ll repeatedly hear six words bound to up the ante … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, screwball comedy, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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The moment for a screwball comedy and a take-charge heroine: Teatro Live! revives On The Banks Of The Nut, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Have you lost your sense of fun? If it’s crossed your mind lately to wonder how on earth everything has turned out much worse that you ever imagined, it might just be the moment for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton theatre, screwball comedy, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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‘You felt like home right from the get-go’. KaldrSaga, Cardiac’s ‘new queer, old Norse cabaret’. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a very unusual storyteller’s cabaret happening in a handsome brick- and wood-lined room in the river valley. Norse mythology: where friends meet. And if the gods are overseeing the whole operation from their own spot … Continue reading
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Tagged ArtsHub Ortona, Cardiac Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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Making merry with murder: A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder at Grindstone, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Murder most foul? Yes, we laughed and laughed. How can you not be tickled by an evening of inspired wickedness in the theatre where you find yourself charmed by a serial killer, and overcome with mirth … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Orange Hall
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Getting the band back together. Cardiac Theatre is back! KaldrSaga: a new queer, old Norse cabaret, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Coming together to tell stories (and hear them). It’s what people do; it’s what people have always done; it’s what people will keep doing. Call that urge a tradition. Or a compulsion. At heart, Cardiac Theatre’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Queer Calendar Project, ArtsHub Ortona, Cardiac Theatre, Common Ground Arts, Edmonton theatre
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A serial killer and his victims hanging out together at Grindstone: A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Why are all the D’Ysquiths dying?” That’s what an ingenuous graveside corps of singing mourners wonders in a funny number in the big, killer musical comedy opening Friday in a Grindstone Theatre ‘Mainstage Series’ production at the … Continue reading
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Backyard curtain time: Theatre Yes brings it home with The Doorstep Plays
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The ancient contract between The People and The Theatre gets an intriguing clause, and the personal touch, in the latest venture by the ever-adventurous Theatre Yes. With The Doorstep Plays, they bring the theatre to you … Continue reading
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Horseplay, an irresistible new play about a bond beyond the traces, at Workshop West. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a bright buoyant sparkle to Horseplay, the funny, dreamy, heart-breaker of a season-ender at Workshop West. It’s a new play, about things like friendship and ambition, success and sacrifice, by a young theatre artist whose … Continue reading
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The self in a bind: the RISER New Works Festival opens with Calla Wright’s Binding
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca New this year the RISER New Works Festival began its weekend of performances and workshops last night with a work-in-progress production of a challenging and playful one-human many-puppet show. Destined for Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, RISER Edmonton
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A horse named Horse, a jockey named Jacques: Kole Durnford’s Horseplay premieres at Workshop West
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the new Canadian play that premieres this week, on the gallop at Workshop West, we meet two best friends, as close as brothers, closer maybe. At heart these two love nothing better than hanging out … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dora Awards, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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