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Monthly Archives: October 2025
An activist crime caper? Nicole Moeller’s Wildcat at Workshop West, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Timeliness? Irony? The world provides, and sometimes theatre just nails it. There’s something downright uncanny about the arrival onstage of Wildcat in a week that will live in infamy in Alberta labour history. Workers’ rights, injustice, resistance … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A week of bounty in Edmonton theatre, a 12thnight survey
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a week of bounty in Edmonton theatre (your biggest problem is choice). Much-awaited new plays are premiering and so is a full-bodied multi-generational dance/theatre extravaganza. A gem of a new musical continues its run. Continuing … Continue reading
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Tagged Biederman Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mile Zero Dance, Persistent Myth Productions, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Tragedy and queer joy: Hayley Moorhouse’s Tough Guy, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Do you remember where you were when you heard …? There are moments in life when you know your answer will be instantly available in your memory, forever. Hayley Moorhouse, whose new play Tough Guy premieres Thursday … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Persistent Myth Productions, RISER, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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‘A life to live, a death confronted’: Billy Bishop Goes To War, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Frequent flyers might think of the Toronto Island airport before the man. But the much-loved two-hander musical that Edmonton Repertory Theatre has chosen for its inaugural season returns to us another frequent flyer, a medal-bedecked World … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Biederman Theatre, Billy Bishop, Canadian World War I history, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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‘A major breach of technical security at the theatre’ cancels opening weekend of Workshop West’s Wildcat
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you’re excited to see the much-anticipated premiere of the new Nicole Moeller crime caper Wildcat at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, which was to have opened tonight, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. The production’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A very Canadian kind of hero. Billy Bishop Goes To War: a theatre classic is back, with elbows up
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a question that threads its way through our whole history, and feels especially up front, feet planted, elbows up, at the moment: What’s different about us Canadians anyhow? Billy Bishop Goes To War, the bona … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Set now, in Edmonton, in the political landscape of Alberta: Wildcat, Nicole Moeller’s new crime caper at Workshop West
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca FUN. In a world of anxiety and dread, it’s an elusive concept, but a seductive one, says playwright Nicole Moeller unspooling time back to her inspiration for Wildcat. Her new crime caper premieres Friday with a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Nicole Moeller, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Re-imagining your inheritance: Morningside Road, a beautiful new Canadian Celtic musical, at Shadow
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One of the haunting songs in Morningside Road, the “new Canadian Celtic musical” that blows open the Shadow Theatre season, wonders about the remarkable way the past is never black-and-white in memory. How does it get … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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