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Márquez meets Buster Keaton in Speechless, at Improvaganza
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Even by the globe-trotting, frontier-busting standards of the international improv comedy world, Speechless is an unlikely creation. Two acrobatic circus-trained improvisers from Bogotá, Colombia and a female DJ from Winnipeg? Come on, the odds-against factor doesn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, DJ Mama Cutsworth, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Improvaganza, long-form improv, Rapid Fire Theatre, Theatresports
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The fine art of the spontaneous: Improvaganza invites the world
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca True fact about the big wide world of improv comedy: it’s smaller than you think. It’s the eve of an international comedy festival that will demonstrate this, in ways you didn’t see coming. Rapid … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broke Gravy, CBC Radio's The Irrelevant Show, Citadel Club, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, IGLU Theatre, improv comedy, K&M, One Lions, Rapid Fire Theatre, Speechless, Zeidler Hall
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Workshop West announces its upcoming 39th season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the centre of Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s upcoming 39th season, announced Thursday, is the world premiere of a new play by Edmonton’s Beth Graham. In Pretty Goblins, by the multi-talented actor/playwright (The Gravitational Pull of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beth Graham, Black Arts Matter, Canoe Festival, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Sound Off, Vern Thiessen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Having Patience: Opera Nuova festival opens with G&S
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Twenty lovesick maidens we….” Let romantic melancholy descend, my friends…. Patience may be a virtue, but it’s also a rarely performed 1881 musical satire/ operetta by the redoubtable team of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Their … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, aesthetic movement, Edmonton theatre, Gilbert and Sullivan, Opera Nuova, Patience, pre-Raphaelites, Rob Herriot
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I went to that bash at Brad’s: Everyone We Know Will Be There
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So, I was at this house party last night…. Brad was turning 17, and (thank god) his parents were out of town. People got high. Kids got trashed, in every sense of the word. Kids had … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Andrew Ritchie, Edmonton theatre, Elena Belyea, Found Festival, Nextfest, site-specific theatre
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A Sterling year onstage: nominations for Edmonton’s theatre awards
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A musical comedy in which a town and its citizens are transformed by putting on a show — a notion that Edmonton can enthusiastically get behind — proved the top choice of jurors as the 30th … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Sterling Awards, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West
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“A very Nextfest sort of play”: Meet two creators
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “What would be the craziest thing that could happen next?” That’s the question — a very Nextfest sort of question — that playwright Ashleigh Hicks asked herself, moment by moment, as she was writing Garnish, premiering … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashleigh Hicks, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, In Arms Collective, Nextfest 2017, Stuart McDougall, Theatre Network
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Get splashed by the new wave of artists: Nextfest is back Thursday
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “OMG, it’s the best part of the year!” — Stuart McDougall of In Arms Collective, creators of Nest Hold that thought. It’s the eve of the innovative arts festival that tosses the leading question “so, what’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Ellen Chorley, L'UniThéâtre, Nextfest, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network
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Psst, are you going to Brad’s party? Everyone We Know Will Be There
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey everybody, we’re invited to a party at Bradley Freeman’s house. He’s turning 17 and, yay, his parents are away somewhere, on a yacht. So he’s having people over. In Everyone We Know Will Be There: … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Andrew Ritchie, Edmonton theatre, Elena Belyea, indie theatre, Nextfest 2017, site-specific theatre, Thou Art Here, Tiny Bear Jaws
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O, to be a kid again: yes you can! The Kids’ Fest is back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Imagine a world where a real live man unzips a suitcase — from the inside — and climbs out. Where a big-mouth wiseacre Dog breathes life into a gentle story about tree planting, one acorn at a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Aboriginal School of Dance, ArtStage SAN, BAM Percussion, children's festivals, DreamWorks, Edmonton theatre, Lightwire Theater, Pangaea Arts, Puppet Stage Theatre Company, St. Albert International Children's Festival
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