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I Don’t Even Miss You: love and legacy in a new multi-disciplinary ‘musical’ from Tiny Bear Jaws
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I can never go back to the person I was in 2020,” says Elena Belyea. And the world can’t go back to its old self either. Which brings her to “the central question: What do you … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Co*Lab, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, RISER Edmonton, Tiny Bear Jaws, Why Not Theatre
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‘A sort of musical at a sort of funeral’: ren & the wake lures alt-folk rocker Lindsey Walker back into musical theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “A sort of musical” set at “a sort of funeral”: that’s the intriguing double-billing of ren & the wake, premiering Thursday at the Backstage Theatre. The workshop production by the off-centre indie experimenters Catch The Keys … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catch The Keys Productions, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton music, Edmonton theatre, Lindsey Walker
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Revisiting your younger self: Bloomsday bends time at Shadow Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca … “that girl there … and would you — would you please just for a minute — would you please see that girl there?” — Robert in Bloomsday, by Steven Dietz “What would you say to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, James Joyce, Shadow Theatre, Steven Dietz, Ulysses, Varscona Theatre
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Two-Headed/ Half-Hearted: the twinned urge to be joined and apart in Northern Light Theatre’s new musical. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There they sit, motionless under a rosy moon, a two-headed prairie oracle atop a body wrapped in mystery. They’re the centrepiece of an eerie altar: a bank of ghostly corn stalks, a gothic farmhouse facade, an … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, conjoined twins, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Kaeley Jade Wiebe, Northern Light Theatre, Rebecca Sadowski, Trevor Schmidt
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As You Like It, A Radical Retelling: lots of secrets about the first play to take the stage at Theatre Network’s new Roxy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We know that the best, the truest, experience of Cliff Cardinal’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling is to know as little as possible about it,” says Chris Abraham of the production that will be … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Crow's Theatre, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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Two-Headed/ Half-Hearted: sisterly bonding in a unique new musical at Northern Light Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Sisters. You can’t live with ‘em and you can’t live without ‘em. In the uniquely demanding new musical that premieres Friday, the finale of Northern Light Theatre’s 46th season, you will meet a pair of sisters … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, conjoined twins, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
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Nostalgia in gold lamé: Mamma Mia! at the Mayfield, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Mamma Mia! Effect, in a nutshell. Read the title, and a whole archive of hits instantly catapults into the centre of your mind as if they’d never left. And they lodge there for at least … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ABBA, Edmonton theatre, Mamma Mia!, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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The doors open, Edmonton has a stunning new theatre … and Theatre Network is home: The Roxy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When Theatre Network opens the doors of the new Roxy on 124th St. this weekend, Edmonton will have a beautiful new $12 million theatre. Theatre Network has returned to the ‘hood after six years renting in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chandos Construction, Crow's Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Group2 Architecture and Interior Design, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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‘It makes us vibrate, makes us feel’: The Power of the Drum from the Cuban Movements Dance Academy. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s no coincidence that Afro-Cuban drumming doesn’t involve drumsticks. It’s hands-on, literally and metaphorically. The power of the drum, as the show of that name onstage at the Westbury Theatre tells us, is that it shares … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Afro-Cuban dance, Common Ground Arts Society, Cuban Movements Dance Academy, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, RISER Edmonton
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Reading the signs: The Herd premieres at the Citadel. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The stage is dominated by a stunning screen — glowing, translucent, undulating like the prairies, with a graceful open-work lattice (Indigenous Tiffany?). In The Herd the boundary between the present and the past, this world and other … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre, National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre, Persephone Theatre, Tarragon Theatre
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