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After the funeral: Darrin Hagen’s dark comedy 10 Funerals premieres at Shadow Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Funerals,” says the booming baritone voice on the phone, “are so weird.” Darrin Hagen is something of an expert. And if there ever was a year to confirm it, it’s been this one, allegedly (but only … Continue reading
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Tagged Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Guys in Disguise, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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‘A dream within a dream’: Catalyst’s Nevermore, in a 15th anniversary concert version
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” Consider it a haunting (a subject on which Edgar Allan Poe is something of an authority). Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst Theatre, Edgar Allan Poe, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University, Vertigo Theatre
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The Freewill Shakespeare Festival’s new home for the summer: a vintage spiegeltent at Edmonton EXPO Centre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For their resident playwright, it’s the big 4-5-9. For the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, it’s season 34, and full of mid-play dramatic developments. Evicted from their home stage by the lunatic City plan of a three-YEAR closure … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton EXPO Centre, Explore Edmonton, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Klondike Days, Romeo and Juliet, spiegeltents, summer Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, West Coast Spiegeltents
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Happy 4-5-9 Will! Brush up your Shakespeare with our quiz
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You get to know a lot of people in 459 years. And vice versa. It’s Shakespeare’s birthday today. And the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, evicted from their usual home in Hawrelak Park for a three-YEAR City of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare
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An incandescent performance in the kingdom of ice: A Hundred Words For Snow, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We surround an ice floe that seems to float in a sea of white. It’s overhung by translucent icicles. And there on a pillar of ice, lit from within, is an urn. Alison Yanota’s design for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre
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Can you use it in a sentence? The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee spells f-u-n
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We hear the word. We breathe. We Wait. Unlike idiots we ideate….” — The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Don’t you love it when there’s ideation? Enough, though, of omphaloskepsis. You can have a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway musicals, Campus St.-Jean, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, improv comedy, spelling bees
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Coming of age in a warming world: meet Dayna Lea Hoffmann, the star of A Hundred Words For Snow
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It doesn’t feel that long ago since I was 15,” says Dayna Lea Hoffmann. “I look back and it was nearly 10 years ago….” “This is me kissing my youth goodbye,” she says at the advanced … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre
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Living a love story in real life, with real-life obstacles to a happy ending: First Métis Man of Odesa, at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca First Metis Man of Odesa, opening at the Citadel April 27, is at its heart a love story, ignited by a chance spark — a “something between us” — in a theatre across the world from … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Highwire Series, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Ukrainian Theatre
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A romcom fantasy in need of songs: Pretty Woman The Musical at the Jube, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Pretty Woman the Musical, that arrived Tuesday at the Jube in a Broadway Across Canada touring production, there are two characters you can’t take your eyes off. There’s fun to be had when they’re onstage; … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Pretty Woman, Pygmalion
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Can you spell p-a-n-d-e-m-o-n-i-u-m? Grindstone Theatre is doing The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At Grindstone Theatre they launch festivals, one after the other, indoors or out — devoted to sketch or stand-up, improv or disco, even mural painting. They celebrate Pride and Fringe in a big way, and all … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway musicals, Campus St.-Jean, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre
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