Monthly Archives: November 2025

Tap dancing towards friendship: How Patty and Joanne Won High Gold … a holiday treat at Northern Light. A review

Posted on November 30, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know you’ve been truly dumped when the teacher just stops coming to the Thursday night beginner adult tap dance class you’ve signed up for — and it’s Christmas time. Talk about seasonal abandonment issues, a … Continue reading →

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May your days be merry and bright … thoughts on the 2025 A Christmas Carol at the Citadel

Posted on November 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On the opening night of A Christmas Carol this past week at the Citadel it started to snow big time; all fall it hadn’t, not really, not till that very evening. And it felt like a … Continue reading →

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‘It’s all coming back to me now’: The 90s at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on November 28, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s all coming back, it’s all coming back to me now.” True, Celine Dion wasn’t singing about a decade at the top of The  90s, the show now singing and dancing (and changing costumes and hair) … Continue reading →

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Buddies in tap dance: meet the co-stars of Northern Light’s new holiday comedy, How Patty and Joanne Won High Gold …

Posted on November 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s something irresistible (and appealingly non-utilitarian) about tap dancing. Patty and Joanne, the two hopeful hoofers who sign up for an adult beginners tap class in Trevor Schmidt’s new holiday comedy, feel it. And so do … Continue reading →

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There’ll be much mistletoe-ing and hearts will be glowing … the festive season begins on Edmonton stages

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Some day soon we all will be together….” This week, actually, the festive season onstage can now officially begin. •Ebenezer Scrooge (John Ullyatt), a misanthrope with a frozen heart will stride briskly onto the Citadel’s Maclab … Continue reading →

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Vohon Ukrainian Dance Ensemble brings folklore to life in epic dance theatre. Svitlo: Discover the Light Within, a preview

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ukrainian folklore, the mythology of a rich and ancient culture, comes to life, on a grand scale, in the show that arrives on the Jube stage Nov. 28. Svitlo: Discover The Light Within is the work … Continue reading →

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A test of comic timing and ingenuity: The 39 Steps launches Farren Timoteo’s artistic directorship at Teatro Live!, a review

Posted on November 16, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It seems exactly right, inspired really, that Farren Timoteo should launch his Teatro Live! artistic directorship of the comedy theatre company with a show that turns a 1935 Hitchcock spy thriller into a manically high-speed, hilariously … Continue reading →

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‘The perfectly imperfect holiday’: Vinyl Cafe The Musical premieres at the Citadel, a review

Posted on November 14, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Vinyl Cafe The Musical, the new Canadian holiday musical premiering at the Citadel in a Daryl Cloran production, is a cool idea bravely built on a double challenge. On one hand it’s an homage to a … Continue reading →

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‘I’m starting with the man in the mirror’: MJ moonwalks the Jube stage, a review

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca MJ, the touring Broadway bio-musical that has arrived on the Jube stage, is a curiosity in every way. Like its star, and subject, Michael Jackson, arguably the 20th century’s greatest and most influential entertainer, a singer/dancer … Continue reading →

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Ray: a little tribute to a great theatre lover

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With the passing of Ray Christenson this month, at 93, Edmonton theatre and its community of artists have lost someone essential to what they do, how they create — and, especially, why. The live theatre isn’t … Continue reading →

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