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Macabre and brilliant, a particularly theatrical kind of ingenuity: some thoughts on Yaga at Shadow
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the nearly-last moment this past weekend I got a chance to see what happens when one of the country’s smartest young playwriting talents tangles with a macabre Slavic myth — and has her way with … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Kat Sandler, murder mysteries, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Love, and theatre, to the rescue! Boy Player at Workshop West is Frank Moher’s Edmonton homecoming
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Gather round; here’s a real-life theatre story, It starts in tragedy, and crosses borders. Its intertwined motifs are an unlikely knot of loss and love … and show tunes. Its seeds are prairie, yes, but ultra-cosmopolitan, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Frank Moher, Northern Light Theatre, Theatre Network, Western Edge Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Who am I in my down time? Iron Matron: a new Trevor Schmidt comedy to launch the Northern Light season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Who am I in my down time? Who am I when I’m alone with myself?” That’s the particular kind of identity question that floats the amusingly named Iron Matron, the new Trevor Schmidt play premiering Friday … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
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Read the chicken bones: A big opening night in Edmonton theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Let’s start with what you say….You say I fly in a mortar and pestle, sweeping a broom behind me to cover my tracks, eating naughty children, their fingers, legs, and guts, their earlobes, and, best of all, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anne of Green Gables, Baba Yaga, Carter-Ryan Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Kat Sandler, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, Varscona Theatre
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It’s a new season at Common Ground Arts! And it opens with Tiny Bear Jaws’ I Don’t Even Miss You
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “One of the strengths of Common Ground Arts is that we’re big enough to have institutional support, staff, a team, a board…. And small and scrappy enough that we’re malleable, to support the needs of whatever … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Fork & Shoe Collective, Found Festival, Prairie Mainstage Series, Producers Lab, RISER Edmonton, Tiny Bear Jaws, We Quit Theatre
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All your questions answered: Edmonton theatre this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the week you can have your most persistent, long-standing questions answered from the stage. Here’s an introductory short-term small-scale answer to a question it may not have occurred to you to ask: where has … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway Across Canada, Carter-Ryan Gallery and Live Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, La Cité francophone, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Theatre Network
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A friendship story, Ukrainian and Métis: Kohkom’s Babushka by playwright BFFs Lianna Makuch and Joleen Ballendine.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When the co-creators of Kohkom’s Babushka, one Ukrainian and the other Métis, were 12 years old, they became best friends forever. Instantly inseparable. And that lasting friendship between Lianna Makuch and Joleen Ballendine is at the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, La Cité francophone, National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, theatre for young audiences
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The Ties That Bind: a new season at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For their upcoming 48th season, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, devoted to the development and showcasing of the Canadian repertoire and its writers, will feature a trio of mainstage productions from veteran theatre artists with long and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Billy Bishop Goes To War, Conni Massing, Edmonton theatre, Frank Moher, Gateway Theatre, Gerry Potter, Western Edge Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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‘Ya gotta spin to win’: Rumpelstiltskin, Alberta Musical Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Ya gotta spin to win,” sings the be-sequinned hustler TV host (Jayden Leung) in the opening number of Rumpelstiltskin. And, hey, it turns out that if you’ve already got a good thing going, you gotta spin … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Musical Theatre Company, Brothers Grimm, Edmonton theatre, Rumpelstiltskin, theatre for young audiences, Varscona Theatre
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A new musical for the mouthy red-haired orphan from Green Gables: Bridget Ryan’s OH, ANNE! at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The original musical comedy that launches the new ‘Roxy Remixed’ season at Theatre Network this week has a heroine for our Moment: optimistic, fanciful, plucky, un-squelchable. Anne with an ‘e’, the mouthy red-haired orphan from P.E.I, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anne of Green Gables, Canmore, Carter-Ryan Gallery and Live Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jason Carter
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