Author Archives: Liz Nicholls

Snow, whatever. Get yourself to a theatre this weekend: a wealth of choices

Posted on February 22, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A great weekend to be in Edmonton if you’re at the theatre. So many choices, so little time…. A celebratory occasion at Teatro Live!. I Meant What I Said is Stewart Lemoine’s first new full-length comedy … Continue reading →

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The night is young and the music’s high: the Mayfield announces a new and music-filled season

Posted on February 20, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Come Monday to Chiquitita … the musical hits just keep coming, in the upcoming 52nd season announced by Mayfield Dinner Theatre artistic director Kate Ryan this week. It’s a lineup designed to capitalize on the theatre’s … Continue reading →

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Theatre Network’s best-of-Fringe ‘February Festival Weekend’: the lineup

Posted on February 18, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Theatre Network is throwing a bash, a five-show February Festival Weekend, at the Roxy. Thursday through Sunday they present a quintet of productions — four of them from last summer’s Fringe — on the Nancy Power … Continue reading →

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Falling in love with a show: Countries Shaped Like Stars, in a new production at Fringe Theatre. A preview

Posted on February 17, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Nearly 15 years ago, in the chaotic excitement of reviewing Fringe shows, I found myself in a nondescript church basement in Strathcona: musty church basement smell, sullen lighting, inauspicious wooden church chairs. What happened after that … Continue reading →

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Stewart Lemoine’s first new full-length comedy in seven long years: I Meant What I Said (and he does), at Teatro Live!

Posted on February 15, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In I Meant What I Said (formerly called Finally! A New Play By Stewart Lemoine), Stewart Lemoine’s first new full-length comedy in seven years — we meet Dinah, a proofreader and aspiring novelist who’s fast approaching the … Continue reading →

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Edmonton’s on it! For Valentine’s weekend, an evening at the theatre

Posted on February 11, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It is the moment to jettison all residual thoughts of Valentine’s Day as a martyrdom, or more recently a massacre, or an epidemic of Hallmark rhymes. And let’s just not even get into the dismal vision … Continue reading →

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A Valentine from two Fringe stars: ‘Evie and Alfie: A Very British Love Story’ at Edmonton Fringe

Posted on February 10, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Evie and Alfie, an older retired couple, sit in their house. Nothing happens for some time.” That was the inspiration (and the initial stage direction), of Evie and Alfie: A Very British Love Story. The unusual … Continue reading →

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‘Whaaat? You want to go where?!’ Taking the wheel of a grand adventure: Burning Mom at the Citadel

Posted on February 9, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca From destination to itinerary to vehicle, there is nothing usual, or even likely, about the road trip in Mieko Ouchi’s Burning Mom, the solo play that starts previews Saturday at the Citadel. A grief-shattered 63-year-old widow … Continue reading →

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The man with the voice and the songs: One Night With Roy Orbison at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on February 8, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Early in the vintage hit-studded revue currently on the Mayfield stage, the narrator tells us that before his career really took off, an aspiring young Texas singer-songwriter named Roy Orbison pitched an original song to Elvis. … Continue reading →

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Greg MacArthur walks the mysterious frontier between fact and fiction: My Testimonial at Workshop West, a preview

Posted on February 6, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Hi, I’m Greg MacArthur. And I’m going to tell you about something that happened to me a while ago….” That’s the conversational opener to My Testimonial. And what happens after that, in this latest from Greg … Continue reading →

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