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Why stop now? A (newly expanded) theatre quiz for summer! More questions for you!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Repair to your deck, clutch a mojito or an iced latte, and muse on the theatre season: What was the very first play that the Free Will Players produced in Hawrelak Park 29 summers ago? (a) … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2016-2017 season, Edmonton theatre
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A (newly expanded) theatre quiz in honour of summertime!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Repair to your deck, clutch a mojito or an iced latte, and muse on the theatre season: What was the very first play that the Free Will Players produced in Hawrelak Park 29 summers ago? (a) … Continue reading
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Tagged 12tnight.ca, 2017-2018 season, Edmonton theatre
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Losing yourself at Found, the festival of art in unexpected places
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Unexpected things happen when you take theatre out of theatres. And we have a festival for that. The Found Festival returns Thursday to Old Strathcona for a sixth annual weekend of strange and surprising encounters, up … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Old Strathcona, performance art, site-specific theatre, slam poetry
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Once more unto the park dear friends: the 29th Freewill Shakespeare Festival draws nigh
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The love of summer Shakespeare runs deep in this town. One morning last week, the guest director at this year’s 29th annual Freewill Shakespeare Festival arrived for rehearsal at the Heritage Amphitheatre in Hawrelak Park. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Free Will Players, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Heritage Amphitheatre, Shakespeare problem plays, summer Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor
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For the love of the screwball: Going, Going, Gone! by comedy star Jana O’Connor at Teatro La Quindicina
By Liz Nicholls@12thnight.ca The hero of Going, Going, Gone! Jana O’Connor’s new 30s-style screwball comedy, is an antiques dealer: “shy, uptight, uncommitted, afraid to make a wrong move in life” as the amused playwright describes him. Everything, in short, that … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Caution: May Contain Nuts, Edmonton theatre, Jana O'Connor, Rapid Fire Theatre, sketch comedy, Teatro La Quindicina, The Irrelevant Show, Varscona Theatre
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Prying opera out of its standard choices: Opera Nuova’s 2017 festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The performance venue is unusual. The stagecraft is unusual. And there’s this: I think we can safely call the Opera Nuova production of Eugene Onegin (opening Thursday at the west end Oasis Centre) a moving experience. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Carousel, Cunning Little Vixen, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Eugene Onegin, Opera Nuova, Rodgers and Hammerstein
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The Citadel’s Beyond the Stage, where theatre, dance, and music collide: the 2017-2018 lineup announced
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the centre of the Citadel’s upcoming Beyond The Stage series, a quartet of innovative mash-ups of theatre, music and dance, is a startling, multi-award-winning production that goes directly to the heart of trauma, shock, grief. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2b theatre company, Anaïs Mitchell, Beyond The Stage series, Citadel Club, Citadel Theatre, Crystal Pite, Edmonton Folk Music Festival, Edmonton theatre, Hadestown, Hannah Moscovitch, Jonathon Young, multi-disciplinary performance, Project: Humanity
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June is bustin’ out all over (two Carousels spin onto the stage this month)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was never an easy musical — to cast, to act, to sing, to dance, to stage. And its dauntingly dark source, a 1909 play by the Hungarian Ferenc Molnár (Liliom), wasn’t exactly a natural for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, American musical theatre, Carousel, Edmonton theatre, Festival Place, Foote in the Door Productions, La Cité francophone, Opera Nuova, Rodgers and Hammerstein
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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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