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Toasting the season on Edmonton stages: the 37th annual Sterling Awards, led by Brick Shithouse
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A wave of indie creativity prevailed at the 36th annual Sterling Awards bash Monday night hosted by Luc Tellier and Nadien Chu, as the theatre community put on lipstick and dancing shoes at the Westbury Theatre … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views
Tagged Alberta Musical Theatre Company, Common Ground Arts Society, Defiance Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Silver Skate Festival, SkirtsaFire Festival, Sterling Awards, Straight Edge Theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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In the pink: fizzy and fun Legally Blonde at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Omigod you guys…. This doom-laden summer, the peppy pink Broadway musical singing and dancing across candy-coloured frames on the Citadel mainstage is your invitation to, like, get happier. Legally Blonde, which started out as a novel … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway musicals, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Theatre Calgary
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Musicals, comedies, and a mysterious experiment in contacting the dead: a week of choices on Edmonton stages
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “There’s more to be seen than can ever be seen.” OK, Rafiki the shaman baboon isn’t singing about the week in Edmonton theatre at the start of The Lion King. But, heck, he could have been; … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, The Lion King, Walterdale Theatre
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The fascinating mystery of Mrs. Houdini: Louise Casemore’s Lucky Charm premieres at Found Fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know how a question slides into your brain at an oblique angle — and takes over — when you’re really supposed to be thinking about something else? Actor/playwright Louise Casemore has been there. And the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2025, Harry Houdini, site-specific theatre, Theatre Yes
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Putting the Find back in Found: the festival of unexpected encounters with art and artists is back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What will you Find at Found? Surprise! “Experiences you can’t find anywhere else,” says Whittyn Jason, the director of the festival of unexpected encounters with art and artists. Common Ground Arts Society’s Found Fest is back … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2025, Latitude 53, multi-disciplinary performance, spoken word poetry
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The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Remembering the 2024-2025 theatre season — in its performances, its design inspirations, its risky experiments, its moments of magic (and/or crazy live-ness) — and its saddest, most irreplaceable losses. Start with those. The passing of wonderful … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, fenceless theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Mayfield Theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Fun at camp: Freewill goes for the bold strokes in As You Like It. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The first hint that Freewill Shakespeare’s As You Like It will go for the bold strokes is that Orlando (the magnetic Braydon Dowler-Coltman), in ball cap and sunglasses, roars up to the stage, to an overture … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, As You Like It, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Louise McKinney Park
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Rediscovering the self you’ve lost (with sun and sea): Shirley Valentine at the Mayfield, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the Mayfield, you have a chance to see a vintage show get a new lease on life — just like its heroine. Shirley Valentine, a 1986 solo play by the Liverpool playwright Willy Russell, is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Willy Russell
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Troy O’Donnell has a history with the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, and this year’s As You Like It
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens Friday in a park overlooking the river valley is all about finding yourself on an excursion to the great outdoors, “the green world.” No wonder the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, which has gone … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare comedies, summer Shakespeare
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Remembering the season in Edmonton theatre, highlights part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Goblin:Macbeth, the brilliant Spontaneous Theatre production that came to the Citadel’s Highwire Series this season, one of the goblin stars wonders aloud what the strange human ritual called theatre is actually for, anyhow. And he … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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