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2022: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2022: it was a year in theatre that started with a calendar dotted with hopeful pencilled-in dates. After a complicated 2021 of cancellations and postponements (and a late-summer re-Pivot of The Pivot), audiences were, cautiously, ready … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Pyretic Productions, RISER Edmonton 2022, Teatro Live!, theatre highlights in Edmonton 2022, U of A Studio Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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An update on E-town holiday shows: overcoming grinch-itude and getting festive, part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lighten up everyone. If stress and/or seasonal ennui have overtaken your festive spirit and malled it beyond recognition, it’s obvious that you need a holiday show booster. And, like sweaters with antlers and shameless pom-poms on … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Gateway Theatre, Girl Brain, Rapid Fire Theatre, Theatre Network, Walterdale Theatre, Whizgiggling Productions
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So what happens next? Die-Nasty does A Christmas Carol part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So what happens to the Cratchits, the Fezziwigs, and Old Scratch himself after that fateful make-over Christmas, anyhow? Don’t tell me the question has never crossed your mind. Tonight at the Varscona Theatre is your only … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Die-Nasty, Edmonton holiday shows, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre
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Die Harsh, a new Christmas musical satire from the Hot Boy Summer team
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca No wonder Byron Martin and Simon Abbott write musical comedies together. It was a partnership meant to be. In a case of extreme showbiz (and seasonal) compatibility, their favourite Christmas movie of all time is … … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Die Hard, Edmonton holiday shows, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, musical satire
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year: A Christmas Carol at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The ‘hap-happiest season of all,’ as the familiar song has it, can officially begin. A Christmas Carol is back onstage at the Citadel for the 23rd year. Daryl Cloran’s production is thrillingly big, bigger than last … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Citadel Theatre, David van Belle, Edmonton theatre
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A mash-up of holiday classics (with ghosts) at Fort Edmonton: It’s A Wonderful Christmas Carol
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m not the man I was….” No kidding. The flinty Mr. Scrooge gives off new sparks in the panto-radio play mash-up that opens at the Capitol Theatre in Fort Edmonton Park Thursday, as part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Edmonton Christmas Market, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Kids in the Hall
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A new Scrooge for the Citadel’s Christmas Carol: John Ullyatt dons the pinstripes
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a theatre town where a lavish Citadel production of A Christmas Carol isn’t just another entertainment choice but a bona fide civic tradition, “Bah, Humbug!” is by now the “to be or not to be” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight, A Christmas Carol, Citadel Theatre, David van Belle, Edmonton theatre
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The Innocence of Trees, a strange and wonderful fantasia on making art, opens the new Theatre Network season. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Theatre Network mainstage is overhung with canvases, dropped at every angle, catching the light in different ways. The back wall, the horizon of the theatre, is a single canvas, and a vertical black line moves … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Agnes Martin, Edmonton theatre, Theatre Network Roxy Theatre
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We’ve lost a giant: Thomas Peacocke, the small-town kid who changed Canadian theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A giant is gone. With the passing of Thomas Peacocke last week at 89, we’ve lost at one go an actor/director/teacher/mentor/administrator/advocate who has played a leading, vivid role in building and shaping theatre here in this … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Genie Awards, National Theatre School, Studio Theatre, Thomas Peacocke, Torches Theatre, U of A drama department
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