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‘A wonder of an actor’: with the death of Julien Arnold, we’ve lost one of our best, and most loved, theatre artists
In honour of the late Julien Arnold, I’m re-posting my 12thnight tribute of Nov. 25. Thursday night at the Citadel (7:30 p.m. in the Maclab Theatre) we celebrate the life of this exceptional theatre artist. If you can’t make it … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlas Theatre Collective, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Intermission’s over, take your seats: Act II of the theatre season is about to begin (prospects to intrigue you).
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wait…. There’s more. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. And rehearsals are underway all over town. Goblin: Macbeth, a Spontaneous Theatre Creation, starts previews next week in the Citadel’s Highwire Series. How … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre Creation, Teatro Live!, Theatre Yes, U of A drama department, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2024: remembering the year in Edmonton theatre, part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2024 (part 2). Here’s a small assortment of highlights — performances, moments, scenes, ideas — in the year of live theatre in Edmonton. But first, the year’s saddest news: as the current 2024-2025 season began, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Jabulani Festival, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Small Matters Productions, Teatro Live!, Theatre Prospero, Thou Art Here Theatre, U of A drama department, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2024: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a chaotic, incoherent year in the world, live theatre, which has itself been under every kind of duress in 2024, stepped up to offer us other perspectives, other visions, characters on personal quests for meaning, … Continue reading
The fun of not one but two redemption stories. Die Harsh: The Christmas Musical at the Orange Hub, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Nothing says Christmas like a villain redemption story, I think we can all agree. Die Harsh: The Christmas Musical, Grindstone Theatre’s very funny contribution to seasonal cheer, has two. And, in this original creation by the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Die Hard, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, holiday musicals, Orange Hub
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A holiday show update! There’s more, if you get your act together
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Release your inner elf, part two. An update! More holiday shows are opening this week. You’ve got a big choice on Edmonton stages, and your time, like Scrooge’s, is running low. •It’s A Wonderful Christmas Carol … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitol Theatre Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Girl Brain, Grindstone Theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Orange Hub, Rapid Fire Theatre, Straight Edge Theatre, Theatre Network, Thou Art Here Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A holly jolly “Christmas horror musical” at Workshop West: Krampus, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you’ve cracked your sweet tooth on the hard candied nut of family togetherness, or you’re blinded by the glare from your neighbour’s seasonal light display, there’s gruesome fun waiting for you at Workshop West. Straight … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, holiday musicals, Straight Edge Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Fascinating, and nerve-wracking: Cycle pedals a provocation. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is something valiant, energizing, and scary as hell, about the show that’s currently spinning its wheels faster and faster at Mile Zero Dance. The man we meet in Cycle does something we all know how … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bike commuters, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton transportation, Mile Zero Dance Warehouse, Thou Art Here Theatre
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Embrace your inner elf and get festive, at a holiday show this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know, you’re holding out on the festive. And you don’t want to peak too soon. But pick that holly out of your clenched teeth, release your inner elf, succumb to the seasonal jollity, and find … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, Grindstone Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Straight Edge Theatre, Theatre Network, Thou Art Here Theatre, Whizgiggling Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Goin’ on holiday with Girl Brain: Weekend at Girlies, at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If the view from the collective snowbank is getting you down, your moment to escape is at hand. In their new holiday show Weekend at Girlies, opening Thursday in Theatre Network’s Phoenix Series, the hit sketch … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, Roxy Theatre, sketch comedy, Theatre Network
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