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Dreaming (and dancing) big: Prison Dancer premieres at the Citadel’s Collider Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a theatre festival that thinks big about the new — creating it to live on large performance spaces across the country and beyond, developing, celebrating and showcasing it. The Citadel’s Collider Festival, a collision of … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian Film Centre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, National Arts Centre, National Creation Fund, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Prison Dancer Inc., Punctuate! Theatre
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An all-star weekend of choices in Edmonton theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca An all-star weekend of choices in Edmonton theatre. Here’s a selection. •At the Citadel, First Métis Man of Odesa, created by and starring real-life husband and wife theatre artists Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova, is a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Collider Festival, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, Walterdale Theatre
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A gay sitcom with a dark undertow: Darrin Hagen’s 10 Funerals at Shadow Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The stage (designer: Even Gilchrist) is hung with rows of black jackets, in every style and shape, bling-ed up or classic. It’s the fashion item of necessity in 10 Funerals. In each of the 10 scenes … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Guys in Disguise, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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What possessed him? Hannah Moscovitch’s clever Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes wonders about that. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The man we meet in Sexual Misconduct in the Middle Classes has a lot going for him. At 42, Jon is a talented professor who gives good class. He’s a famous author. He has celebrity, good … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Hannah Moscovitch, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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Love and art in the time of war: First Métis Man of Odesa, at the Citadel. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Is this real?” In love and in art it’s the smelling-salts of questions. It can get your attention, startle you, give you a pinch, make you cautious. And it gets asked, at every possible angle, with … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Ukrainian Theatre
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‘Legal but complicated’: Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You cannot shoot vampires during the day,” says Hannah Moscovitch, from a car across the world in Prague at 5 in the afternoon. The star Canadian playwright is driving past beautiful old buildings and cherry trees … Continue reading
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Tagged APTN, Crave, Edmonton theatre, Hannah Moscovitch, Interview With The Vampire, Theatre Network
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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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