Author Archives: Liz Nicholls

‘Concert and vacation’: Teatro season-opener Far Away and Long A-Gogo! A review.

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Far Away And Long A-Gogo, the “concert and vacation” that launches the new Teatro Live season starts, quite hilariously, in the kind of impasse that showbiz is designed to trounce. It’s a medley, slowed to lugubrious … Continue reading

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There’s no cure like travel: Far Away and Long A-Gogo! launches the Teatro Live season

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Oh, there’s no cure like travel/ To help you unravel/ The worries of living today…. “ — Anything Goes, Cole Porter Ah, wanderlust. The journey as antidote to what ails you. “When the poor brain is … Continue reading

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You know you’re Canadian if … Canada Rocks: The Reboot, at the Mayfield. A review

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know you’re Canadian if … You’re prepared to crank up the barbecue in December. You make your kids’ Halloween costumes roomy enough to fit over a snowsuit. You know that double-double doesn’t just mean toil … Continue reading

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Follow the Whyte Rabbit! Alison Wunderland at the Spotlight Cabaret, a review

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca How do you get to Wunderland? A spot quiz. No, fellow travellers, not by LRT (get real). Not by sneaking through the stage door at the Varscona, or clicking your heels in the gazebo in the … Continue reading

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A thrilling and beautiful musical testimonial to what art and artists are all about: Hadestown at the Jube, a review

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The musical/ folk opera that returns to Edmonton in the thrilling touring Broadway production onstage at the Jube this week will take you to Hell and back. And all along that eerie, high-stakes route through darkness, … Continue reading

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How To Ruin The Holidays, a new feature film from improv stars Kevin Gillese and director Arlen Konopaki

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “At Christmas all roads lead home.” As the stand-up comedian heroine (Amber Nash) of How To Ruin The Holidays discovers, evasionary tactics may stall this inevitable Yuletide GPS, but it will not change the destination. There’s … Continue reading

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How did we get here? the question, the cabaret, the new play, the anniversary production

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Consider for a moment the question that’s been asked — in every tone of voice, every degree of exasperation or relief, bemusement or amazement, wonder or perplexity — by every one of us, especially in the … Continue reading

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The freaky tangle of connections in the digital world: Mob, the thriller that opens the Workshop West season. A review

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening moments of Mob nail you to your seat, and there’s no getting relaxed after that in the Quebec thriller that is Workshop West’s genuinely disturbing season opener. A woman (Kristin Johnston), mysteriously traumatized, drives … Continue reading

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Excitement in a theatre town: you have to be there. Theatre possibilities this week

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca More proof, as if you needed any, that Edmonton is a theatre town: A week of exciting possibilities for your nights out. A Quebec thriller. A musical about the struggle to write a musical about the … Continue reading

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Audrey II is coming for you: Little Shop of Horrors at the Citadel, a review

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a musical that makes a case for smart people taking a dumb movie in hand and re-potting it — a strategy that’s backfired elsewhere with depressing regularity this century — it’s got … Continue reading

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