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It’s Jesus’s mom’s turn to speak: The Testament of Mary at Northern Light Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The star of the famous story gets top billing and a lot of press. And he always has, being the Son of God and starting a world-wide religion and all. But you don’t hear from his … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Colm Tóibín, Edmonton theatre, Holly Turner, Northern Light Theatre, The Testament of Mary
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Music, stories, cabaret, ‘infotainment’, opera, and plays: a weekend of trick and treat on Edmonton stages
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a musical journey that cuts to the soul of a turbulent history. In Freedom Singer, which arrives at the Citadel Club starting tonight as part of a cross-country tour, the Detroit-born Canadian musician Khari Wendell … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Club, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Khari Wendell McClelland, Roxy on Gateway, Roxy Performance Series, Theatre Network
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Quantum physics and the infinite possibilities of love: Constellations opens the Shadow Theatre season
Watch Constellations trailer By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you’ve ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes. — Marianne in Constellations In the mind-bending love story that launches … Continue reading
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Tagged Contellations, Edmonton theatre, Liana Shannon, Mat Busby, Nick Payne, quantum physics in theatre, Shadow Theatre
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Oil money, glamour, seduction, betrayal … the new season of Die-Nasty starts Monday
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s 1983. And world-class cities don’t come any world-classier than the one down the road. Yes, it’s in the gleaming cloud-capp’d towers of Calgary, that fabled Shangri-La of wealth and power and world classiness, oiled by, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Die-Nasty, Dynasty, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, improvised soap opera, prime time soap opera, Varscona Theatre
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Scare yourself, run away to the circus: Dead Centre of Town X, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Even before the fog rolls in at Fort Edmonton Park , an abandoned midway on an autumn night is an eerie sight. An empty skeleton of a ferris wheel, rides without seats, boardwalks across empty fields, a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catch The Keys Productions, Dead Centre of Town, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Halloween, Johnny Jones MIdway
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See “something Edmonton never gets to see” this week: Bibish de Kinshasa at L’UniThéâtre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Well, Edmonton, your theatre week is full of intriguing shows that “Edmonton never gets to see,” as L’UniThéâtre’s Brian Dooley puts it. *Starting Wednesday, L’UniThéâtre, our hospitable francophone theatre, is hosting a cabaret/play like no other. … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Annie Baker, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Dead Centre of Town, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, L'UniThéâtre, La Cité francophone, Productions Hôtel-Motel, Roxy Performance Series, Studio Theatre, Theatre Network, ubuntu
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It’s the small stuff that counts: The Aliens, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When stubbing out a cigarette or trying to bring on a sneeze count as flurries of activity, you’re in the brave theatrical world of Annie Baker. Kicking over a plastic chair? Downright revolutionary. The fallback term … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Annie Baker, Edmonton theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Theatre Network, What It Is Productions
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Igniting connections: a review of Ubuntu at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A son dreams nightly of his father. That’s how it starts. But what sets Ubuntu: The Cape Town Project on its zigzag course through two time periods 30 years apart is an inspired perpetual motion scene, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Baxter Theatre Centre, Cape Town theatre, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, ubuntu
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Catalyst Presents: Onegin, the Vancouver hit rock musical coming our way!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A unusual love story, in which one of our most inventive theatre companies falls, hard, for an inventive show — and makes advances: Catalyst Theatre has fallen in love with Onegin, a much-awarded original … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Arts Club Theatre, Catalyst Presents, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Maclab Theatre, Onegin, Pushkin, rock musicals, Tchaikovsky
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Soul royalty at the Mayfield: a review of Soul Sistas
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Holy smoke! Or as we say in the prairies, Holeeeee! If you haven’t seen the audacious concert show currently running — also dancing, jumping, rocking — at the Mayfield, you’re missing out (as I discovered just … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Aretha Franklin, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, R&B, soul, Tina Turner
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