Author Archives: Liz Nicholls

Hot theatre choices on Edmonton stages for your long weekend, a 12thnight survey

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You don’t lack for choices in Edmonton theatre as the long weekend approaches (Queen Victoria wouldn’t have it any other way). Consider some of your options: the premiere of a new Canadian play with a whimsical … Continue reading →

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The Doorstep Plays: showtime for emerging playwrights in your own backyard

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Make yourself at home, people; you’re already at the theatre. All you have to do is step outside your door, and it’s showtime in your own personal venue. Theatre Yes, specialists in theatre that happens in … Continue reading →

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Once more unto the park in 2026? Freewill Shakespeare Festival launches a ‘save the fest’ campaign

Posted on May 12, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For 35 summers the Freewill Shakespeare Festival has been banishing the winters of our discontent (not to mention, bringing on joy and mirth, and generally inspiring a holiday humour). Summer Shakespeare à la Freewill is a … Continue reading →

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The rise of RISER: a new works festival from Common Ground

Posted on May 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca RISER has risen. Again, and in a new, expanded form. Edmonton, where theatre is the leading arts industry, was always the right place for the visionary national initiative — launched by Toronto’s Why Not Theatre — … Continue reading →

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A theatrical index to a beloved novel: Little Women at the Citadel, a review

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The March siblings, growing up in genteel poverty in Civil War America, might well be literature’s most famous sister act since Jane Austen’s Bennets. And ever since they stepped out from the pages of Louisa May … Continue reading →

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Shadow Theatre announces a four-show upcoming season, launched by a new Canadian musical

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre’s upcoming four-production 32nd season will launch with the premiere of a much-anticipated new Canadian musical. In Morningside Road, by the remarkably versatile Edmonton artists Mhairi Berg (book) and Simon Abbott (music), a girl connects … Continue reading →

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Family secrets and country air: Where You Are at Shadow, a review

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s no shortage of funny one-liners in Where You Are. And a lot of them happen in the opening scenes of the carefully constructed 2019 comedy by the Canadian playwright Kristen Da Silva. We meet two … Continue reading →

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Getting our Canadian stories, our voices, our dreams off the page and onto the stage: meet director Jan Selman

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You could call it “retirement.” After a quarter century at the U of A, in which she has directed every sort of play, taught acting and directing, encouraged young playwrights, commissioned new Canadian plays, sat on … Continue reading →

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Lots to see on Edmonton stages this week, a small survey of the landscape

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, Edmonton. You have choices for your evenings out at the theatre this week: two Canadian comedies, a wicked Brit satire, a multi-disciplinary arts festival, a stage adaptation of a much-loved novel, a prairie love story, … Continue reading →

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“Is anyone out there?” En route to love, the long way round: Alphabet Line at Fringe Theatre. A review

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “My name is Duncan J Hayes. I live in Yonker on the Alphabet Line. Is anyone out there?” The recurring refrain in Alphabet Line is a call out into the wild blue yonder of the Saskatchewan … Continue reading →

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