Author Archives: Liz Nicholls

A two-festival week in Edmonton theatre: SOUND OFF and SkirtsAfire

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz NIcholls, 12thnight.ca We know how to get festive in this theatre town. It’s a two-festival week in Edmonton. SOUND OFF, the influential six-day national festival of Deaf theatre with homegrown origins, returns to its birthplace with a ninth … Continue reading →

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Dance Nation at SkirtsAfire 2025: artistic producer Amanda Goldberg talks about her festival debut

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The SkirtsAfire Festival returns this week for a 13th annual edition (with theatrical skirts of every length, style, and fit). And on the mainstage of this resourceful multi-disciplinary celebration of female artists, is a play that … Continue reading →

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An ogre and a donkey hit the road: Shrek The Musical at NUOVA. Meet two of the stars.

Posted on February 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They say that you never really know someone till you travel (or, eek, go camping) with them. A grouchy green ogre and a sassy big-mouth donkey, travelling companions in the Broadway musical that opens Wednesday at … Continue reading →

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Dreamin’ and rockin’. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The ’70s Musical at the Citadel

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hanging with Shakespeare at the Citadel…. Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s lunchtime. And director Daryl Cloran, along with Theseus, Hippolyta, a bunch of rustic artisans, and Titania, Oberon, Puck and that fairyland Midsummer Night’s … Continue reading →

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Edmonton theatre this week, and the cure for frostbite

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This week, in Edmonton theatres, you can have your heart warmed — and in several ways. (Seriously, you can’t be thinking of staying home feeling frosty). It started Monday night at Theatre Network with a beautiful … Continue reading →

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Party time in 19th century Russia: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 at MacEwan

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A black box theatre at MacEwan University (the Tim Ryan Theatre Lab) has been transformed into a red and black Russian cabaret — overhung with velvet  draperies, twinkling lights, a glittering chandelier, imperial insignia of the … Continue reading →

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Teatro Live introduces a younger generation of stars (and Hungarian street snacks) in The Noon Witch. Meet Eli Yaschuk.

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thirty years ago, Teatro La Quindicina audiences caught sight of a highly idiosyncratic witch who preferred sunlight to night time, and lured men to their watery death with caloric fatty snacks so they sink. Playwright Stewart … Continue reading →

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Hey, wanna see a show? Look at your choices on Edmonton stages this week!

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a week to expand your horizons at the theatre….  Don’t even think about staying home. Your choices are many: Broadway musicals of every size and personality, improv, a clown show that takes … Continue reading →

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Bummed out in Buffalo: will they? won’t they? The struggles of the blue-collar male in The Full Monty at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The guys we meet in The Full Monty are up against it. They’re unemployed steel workers in rustbelt Buffalo. And, as one points out, in the opening musical number “it’s a long night when you’re scrap…. … Continue reading →

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Two sisters and a snowman: Frozen will thaw your cold cold heart, a review

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a moment in Disney’s Frozen the Broadway Musical, just before intermission, when you just can’t help cheering the liveness of a musical that challenges itself to bring to the stage one of Disney Corp’s hottest … Continue reading →

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