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Raising funds for Ukraine: theatre steps up. A play, a playwright, Pyretic Productions, and the Blyth Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It started with the discovery of a hand-written diary, the journal in which Lianna Makuch’s grandmother recorded her flight, on foot, from war-ravaged Ukraine in 1944. That wrenching chronicle, and an anniversary of the full-scale Russian … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blyth Festival, Canadian Red Cross, Canadian-Ukrainian Foundation, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Kyiv Pride, OutRight Action, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions
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Meet the Mischief-makers, creators of comic havoc (witness Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Citadel)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The three creators of Mischief Theatre‘s Peter Pan Goes Wrong were in town last week to watch the North American debut of their 2013 play unleash theatrical chaos on the Citadel mainstage. The trio of Londoners … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway HD, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mischief Theatre, Peter Pan, The Goes Wrong Show
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Theatre rooted in the land: Ayita, premiering at SkirtsAfire. Meet creator Teneil Whiskeyjack
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The mainstage centrepiece of the 10th anniversary edition of SkirtsAfire — the multidisciplinary arts festival devoted to celebrating and showcasing women and non-binary artists — is a new play. Distinctively Indigenous in its inspiration, creation, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival
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Ten years of SkirtsAfire: amplifying the voices of women and non-binary artists
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s been a decade, amazingly, since Annette Loiselle and a couple of her actor friends, Sharla Matkin and Nadien Chu, sat at the Carrot Cafe, plotting over popcorn, red wine, and lopsided statistics. For years Loiselle, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Avenue, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Westbury Theatre
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Old Strathcona here they come: for the first time in Workshop West history, a theatre of their own
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre is moving. Come March 1 you’ll find the venerable company, age 43, in their own theatre, in the heart of Edmonton’s entertainment district. Welcome to the newly christened Gateway Theatre in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, The Third Space, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A home of their own, in the entertainment ‘hood: Rapid Fire Theatre at 41
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’ve dreamed it for years. Now, at age 41, Rapid Fire Theatre finally has a home of their own. And it’s in the ‘hood that’s their traditional home base, Old Strathcona. Edmonton’s premier improv company is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Group2, Old Strathcona, Old Strathcona Business Association, Rapid Fire Theatre, Roxy on Gateway, Strathcona Exchange Building
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Melanie Piatocha: theatre has lost a bright talent and a questing spirit
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In this bleak mid-winter of theatre, heartbreaking news of the January death of actor Melanie Piatocha at 36 seems particularly cruel. The abrupt loss of a talent so expansive, and a quester so spirited, so restless, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Banff Centre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Teatro La Quindicina
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Someone on your side: Berend McKenzie, Catalyst Confluence Fellow, reaches out to outsiders
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “This is about visibility!” declares Berend McKenzie with the kind of go-for-the-gusto velocity that makes time fly when you talk to them. “This is about opportunity! This is about being in the room where it happens!” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Black History Month, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Loud 'N' Queer, MacEwan University theatre arts, Victoria School of the Arts, WarnerMedia, Writers' Guild of Alberta
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New faces in theatre: meet theatre creator/ designer Even Gilchrist
They’re young, adaptable, and creative. And as theatre returns in this late-pandemic grind, and the doors open to live audiences, we’ll be seeing the work of these theatre artists light up, and transform, the scene here, on- and backstage. You’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Azimuth Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, found theatre, RISER Edmonton, Shadow Theatre, U of A Arts, You Are Here Theatre
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New faces in theatre: meet composer/lyricist Simon Abbott
They’re young, adaptable, and creative. And as theatre returns in this late-pandemic grind, and the doors open to live audiences, we’ll be seeing the work of these theatre artists light up, and transform, the scene here, on- and backstage. Meet … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, musical theatre, political satire
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