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The existentialists from Ummo are back: Mump and Smoot in Exit, at Theatre Network. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Mump and Smoot arrive, as always, from a mysterious place, through the crowd — inhabitants of another mysterious place, the theatre (that’s us!). And, as always, they’re mid-adventure, mid-conversation, en route to the stage. It’s dark; … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bouffon clowns, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, horror clowns, Mump and Smoot, Theatre Network
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Let’s do the Time Warp again: on being Dr Frank-N-Furter in Grindstone’s cult classic season opener
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s time warp time. Picture this: a little kid in the single-digit age bracket, with Halloween insomnia, sneaks downstairs way past his bedtime and turns on the TV. He flips through the channels; he stumbles on … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2024, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Orange Hub, Rocky Horror Show
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The fun of being scared together: Andrew Ritchie directs The Woman In Black, to open the Teatro Live! season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “People love to be scared,” says Andrew Ritchie decisively. (And he’s got a whole movie industry to back him up on that). The genial director of The Woman in Black, the atmospheric horror-thriller opening the Teatro … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, stage thrillers, Teatro Live!, The Woman In Black, Varscona Theatre
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Exploring the Great Beyond: ‘Mump and Smoot in Exit’ premieres at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It took them a while to get back here with a show. A decade to be precise. But there was something entirely natural about finding Mump and Smoot and their director Karen Hines last week in … Continue reading
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Illusion and delusion: A Streetcar Named Desire at the Citadel. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One of American theatre’s greatest plays about illusion and delusion — and the power and limitations of both — is the season-opener at the Citadel. And in Daryl Cloran’s beautifully acted production of A Streetcar Named … Continue reading
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The return of The Invisible: Catalyst’s hit spy musical is back, before it sets forth on tour
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Catalyst hit spy musical that opens Thursday at the Eva O. Howard Theatre returns to us Jonathan Christenson’s compelling all-female World War II espionage story, pried from history and imagined in a high-style, thrillingly theatrical … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Victoria School of the Arts
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Welcome to the Rock! Come From Away comes from away, back to the Jube
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Come From Away, the homegrown Canadian musical Broadway hit that travels the world on a jet stream of raves, major awards and sold-out runs, has come from away, again. It lands at Jube for the third … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Edmonton theatre, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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Reaching for magic: Lindsey Angell stars as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, launching the Citadel season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “The world is violent and mercurial–it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love. …We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Arts Club Theatre Company, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Tennessee Williams, Theatre Calgary
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‘Saints and Rebels’: Workshop West announces a new season and a bold experiment in ticketing
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre turns 46 with a new season, two Canadian premieres, a Christmas show, and a bold invitation to the audience to “pay what you will” for every ticket to every show. “A pilot … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stephen Massicotte, Straight Edge Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Theatre Network at 50: an anniversary season and a story of Canadian theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When a pair of horror clowns named Mump and Smoot take to the Roxy mainstage Oct. 8 for the first time in a decade, those interplanetary existentialists from Ummo will be launching Theatre Network’s 50th anniversary … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Colleen Murphy, Edmonton theatre, Mump and Smoot, Nextfest Arts Company, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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