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The fascinating journey of painter Agnes Martin: The Innocence of Trees premieres at Theatre Network’s new Roxy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I would like my pictures to represent beauty, innocence, and happiness…. I would like them all to represent that. Exaltation.” — Agnes Martin Theatre Network formally launches the beautiful new Roxy on 124th Street, and their … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Agnes Martin, Edmonton theatre, Eugene Stickland, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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From a big bad dangerous world, to us: Evandalism, a surprising original at Fringe Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It wasn’t a promising start to a life: “a little Mexican Indian whose mom and dad didn’t want him.” The guy who stands before us, tattooed and smiling in front of a big magic board, is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Bear Grease, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre
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A comedy thriller inside a comedy thriller: Deathtrap at Teatro Live! A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a play that judges success when the audience gasps together, then laughs at its own collective surprise, it’s the one that opens the season at Teatro Live! (the newly renamed Teatro La … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, comedy thrillers, Deathtrap, Edmonton theatre, Ira Levin, Teatro Live! Varscona Theatre
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A life transformed by hip-hop: Evandalism opens the Fringe Theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Henry Andrade (aka MC RedCloud) has a story. It’s personal, it’s dramatic, it’s hopeful, it crucially involves hip-hop. And, starting Friday on the Westbury stage, he’s sharing it from the stage in a one-man storytelling performance/show … Continue reading
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Two sparring playwrights in a vintage thriller: Deathtrap opens the Teatro Live! season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The twisty comedy thriller that opens the Teatro season on the Varscona stage Friday is a classic, Ira Levin’s vintage 1978 Broadway hit Deathtrap. But the production that launches the Teatro La Quindicina of old into … Continue reading
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From Plain Jane, Sweeney Todd in close-up: feel the rage. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You don’t want to think too hard about the dark smudges on the tiled wall. Or that loud industrial metallic grinding noise. Or the Please Remove Your Rubbers sign. We’re in the spartan break room of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Co*Lab, Edmonton theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd
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Almost A Full Moon at the Citadel: Canada has a new holiday musical, full of snow, stories, and soup. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Almost A Full Moon, the oddly joyous and insightful new holiday musical premiering at the Citadel, generations jostle together on the stage. Wispy stray people, strangers, somehow find each other, get connected, and become … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Hawksley Workman, holiday musicals
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Newly rock-ified and fast on its feet: Jesus Christ Superstar arrives at the Jube. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a rush down the aisles, a veritable runners’ stampede onto the stage at the start of the Broadway Across Canada touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar that exploded into the Jube Tuesday. And it reimagines … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway Across Canada, Edmonton theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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Up close and chilling: a small-scale Sweeney Todd for our time, from the Plain Janes
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd/ He served a dark and vengeful god….” Starting Friday in a small and intriguing downtown space (CO*LAB), up close enough to smell blood, Plain Jane Theatre brings us a small-cast chamber … Continue reading
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