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Settle down class: the teacher is back, in a new version of Miss Katelyn’s Grade Threes Prepare For The Inevitable
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Imagine: someone loony enough to believe that some unobtrusive terrorist gunman could go into a school and … It doesn’t exactly take a paranoid with an apocalyptic persecution fantasy to imagine “a worst-case scenario.” Reality … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Elena Belyea, school shootings, Tiny Bear Jaws
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The importance of being Oscar: a comic masterwork finds a home at Teatro La Quindicina: a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It has been called the most perfectly constructed comedy in English theatre. And it’s certainly one of the funniest. Funny, then, how The Importance of Being Earnest is full of serious people. That’s the hard, crucial … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jeff Haslam, Oscar Wilde, Teatro La Quindicina, The Importance of Being Earnest
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An all-Canadian trio of mainstage productions for season 44 at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the centre of Theatre Network’s all-Canadian upcoming three-production mainstage season announced this week is a new play inspired by a remarkable life — and a life-changing moment in our collective history. In The Empress & … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2b theatre company, Alberta Opera, Blunt Entertainment, Bradley Moss, Bumble Bear Productions, Crow's Theatre, Damien Atkins, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Ghost Writer Theatre, Good Women Dance, Hannah Moscovitch, Hey Ladies!, Nextfest, Patricia Zentilli, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
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Leona Brausen plays Lady B: The Importance of Being Earnest at Teatro La Quindicina
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There will be a moment this evening when an actor who has spent a great deal of time in her career providing perfectly vintage handbags to the casts of period comedies will get the ultimate pay-off. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Leona Brausen, Mark Meer, Oscar Wilde, Ron Pederson, Teatro La Quindicina, The Importance of Being Earnest, Varscona Theatre
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Found Festival 2018: surprising finds, unexpected encounters
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Found, the festival that’s all about the find — art and artists in places you never expected to run into them — is back this weekend in Old Strathcona for a seventh annual edition. It’s all about … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beth Dart, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, found space art, site-specific theatre
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Things I learned at the Sterling Awards gala: a coda
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thoughts from the Sterling gala (directed by Kate Ryan and written by Shannon Blanchet and Belinda Cornish). •For openers: Co-hosts Rachel Bowron and Hunter Cardinal were sparklers. They opened the show with Beauty, a witty and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Playwriting Competition, Capitol Theatre, Citadel Theatre, clown and mask, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Sterling Award gala, Sterling Awards
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Nostalgia for a lost age: Forever Plaid at the Mayfield, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In their one review ever, in The Wiltsburg Times Chronicle, a nameless writer delivered the opinion that The Plaids’ sound “is to modern music what Formica is to marble.” It is a measure of their infinite … Continue reading
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Tagged '50s close-harmony guy groups, 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Forever Plaid, jukebox musicals, Kate Ryan, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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The Sterling Awards celebrate the season in Edmonton theatre: Onegin, Métis Mutt, Terry and the Dog lead the way
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A Canadian indie-rock musical hit that played its hot-blooded operatic passions with an irreverent light touch scored top musical production honours from jurors at the 31st annual Sterling Awards gala Monday night. And a solo coming-of-age … Continue reading
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An exciting new Hamlet for the park: a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Is not this something more than fantasy?” The guards on duty in Elsinore are talking about a dead king who’s been appearing nightly from behind his official royal portrait. They’re right on another count, too. Something … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hamlet, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, Hunter Cardinal, Marianne Copithorne, Shakespeare tragedy
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