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A glorious score that’s already in your brain: The Sound of Music at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Sound of Music, now delighting audiences at the Citadel, is at the top of a tiny list of resistance-is-futile musicals whose mere titles dig into the tune retention part of the brain and won’t let … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Sound of Music
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Life lived precariously, on land and sea: some thoughts on Mermaid Legs at this year’s SkirtsAfire Fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the very last moment on the weekend I finally got the chance to see Mermaid Legs, the theatrical centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival. And there was magic to it. Not only was Sunday the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beth Graham, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Skirts AFire Festival
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Making A Monster: Northern Light Theatre announces the upcoming 49th season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Where do monsters come from? Do we all have one lurking in our dark cores? What conditions are ideal for creating or discovering or releasing our inner monster? Ah, and is there a point of no … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre
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SOUND OFF, the unique national Deaf theatre fest, is back for an 8th annual edition
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca SOUND OFF, the influential national festival unique in the country and the continent, is back, and here in its hometown, for an eighth annual edition Tuesday. The brainchild of Chris Dodd, SOUND OFF is dedicated to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, SOUND OFF 2024
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A-line, mini, midi, pleated … what’s on at SkirtsAfire 2024. Meet the new artistic producer Amanda Goldberg
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca SkirtsAfire, the multi-disciplinary 12-year-old festivities that celebrate and support women in the arts, is having a a transitional big-M Moment. Founder and artistic director Annette Loiselle, the veteran actor/director whose bright idea SkirtsAfire was in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsAfire Festival 2024, Sound Off
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Behind the scenes at Mermaid Legs, the theatrical centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new Beth Graham play premiering Feb. 29 as the mainstage centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival, has the best, most evocative, most intriguing, title of the season. Mermaid Legs, commissioned by the theatre and multi-disciplinary … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beth Graham, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival
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Revelling in the make-believe of theatre: Pith! at Teatro Live, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The pith helmet has returned to Edmonton. And with it, playwright Stewart Lemoine’s invitation, in a well-travelled 1997 comedy both charming and riotous, to have an exotic, liberating adventure in the theatre, along with its three … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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Andrea Menard’s Rubaboo, a Métis cabaret: songs, stories, and an emotional jouney to open your heart
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The title of the “cabaret” that opens Thursday on the Citadel’s Maclab stage borrows the Michif word for a multi-ingredient stew. In Rubaboo, Andrea Menard — the acclaimed Métis singer-songwriter/ actor/ playwright/ teacher/ founder of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Andrea Menard, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grand Theatre, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre
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Pith! The return of a signature Teatro comedy and Jana O’Connor’s ‘dream role’
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca Jana O’Connor has been hearing stories in the rehearsal room. Stories which live on in the Teatro Live! archives, of the memorably frantic, complicated journeys to opening nights of Teatro’s most travelled, most often revived, arguably … Continue reading
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Tagged CBC Radio The Irrelevant Show, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!
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