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Heart and soul in 2 Pianos 4 Hands at the Mayfield. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The charming, poignant, and very funny musical comedy now at the Mayfield begins in classic concert fashion: the bow from the waist and the flipping of the tuxedo tails. Two men in formal tuxes take their … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Mirvish Productions, Talking Fingers Inc., Tarragon Theatre
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Rising Sun Theatre throws a magic/music bash
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Magic and music: some of this theatre town’s top-drawer talent in both are featured in Rising Sun Theatre’s benefit bash at the Gateway Theatre Oct. 1. Ron Pearson, a virtuoso magician/illusionist with a theatrical bent (Minerva: … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dana Wylie, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Rising Sun Theatre, Workshop West
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Mad as hell: Network launches the Citadel season. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The word “prescient” has been floating over the Citadel for weeks now, threading through rehearsals for the play getting its Canadian premiere Thursday on the Shoctor stage. It’s attached to a (very) dark comedy satire about … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lee Hall, Paddy Chayefsky, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shaw Festival
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Workshop West announces a new season devoted to Canadian plays and their creators
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre bookends its upcoming 44th “Persistence of Vision” season, announced Thursday, in a way that has always characterized a theatre company devoted to the development and showcasing of new Canadian plays and their … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre 2022-2023 season, GAL Productions, High Performance Rodeo, Hit & Myth, One Yellow Rabbit, The Gateway Theatre, Theatre Yes, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A cultural inheritance, a quest, and a haunting: Barvinok launches a tour here
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “The universal desire, the need, desire, to understand who you are, where you came from….” That’s what drew Ukrainian-Canadian playwright Lianna Makuch across the ocean to her ancestral homeland. And that quest was her creative inspiration, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Ukrainian-Canadian theatre
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Facing the fall-out: A Doll’s House Part 2 launches the season at the Varscona. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The stage is dominated by a door, a giant door. The room has the outlines of wainscoting and six sealed windows — all bleached out, painted over, uninhabited. There’s no human clutter: a couple of chairs, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Henrik Ibsen, Varscona Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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Knock knock who’s there? Nora’s back, A Doll’s House Part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “And it’s crucial there be a door. A very prominent door to the outside….” playwright stage directions, A Doll’s House Part 2 by Lucas Hnath It’s the door that Nora Helmer slammed as she walks out … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Moment Discovery, RBC Horizon Emerging Artist Program, Varscona Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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It’s time to play: a peek at the new Edmonton theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Destination Fringe, with its 95,000 or so tickets sold, was a hint (we deal in big hints here in #yeg. People know what they’ve been missing; they want live in-person theatre experience and the sharing that … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Gordon's Big Bald Head, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Play The Fool Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Shadow Theatre, Teatro Live!, The Maggie Tree, U of A Studio Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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Kiss the cod: Come From Away at the Jube, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Come From Away wasn’t Away long, in real time. And yet, the world has changed in such unmistakeable ways since March 2019, when the American touring production arrived here, bringing a story of Canadian-ness back to … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway Across Canada, Canadian Musical Theatre Project, Come From Away, Edmonton theatre, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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Teatro Live! new season, new calendar, new name
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ya turn 40, ya make changes…. Teatro La Quindicina goes into its new decade with a newly streamlined moniker (with a built-in exclamation point), a new logo, a new and Fringe-less yearly calendar, and an expanding … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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