Category Archives: Features
A direct link between theatre and our shared history: Indecent in New York
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “There is a story we want to tell you….” There is no shortage, in the theatre archive, of plays about plays, the writing of them, the putting on of them, the view of them from … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway, Folkways Records, Michael Asch, Moses Asch, New York Theatre, Off-Broadway, Paula Vogel, Sholem Asch, Tony Awards, Vineyard Theatre
Bringing Canada to New York: Soulpepper on 42nd Street
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Last week in New York I had the excitement of seeing what a top-drawer Canadian theatre company, venturing forth, can bring to the stage in a highly demanding world theatre capital. Coming from away for … Continue reading
Why stop now? A (newly expanded) theatre quiz for summer! More questions for you!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Repair to your deck, clutch a mojito or an iced latte, and muse on the theatre season: What was the very first play that the Free Will Players produced in Hawrelak Park 29 summers ago? (a) … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2016-2017 season, Edmonton theatre
A (newly expanded) theatre quiz in honour of summertime!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Repair to your deck, clutch a mojito or an iced latte, and muse on the theatre season: What was the very first play that the Free Will Players produced in Hawrelak Park 29 summers ago? (a) … Continue reading
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Tagged 12tnight.ca, 2017-2018 season, Edmonton theatre
For the love of the screwball: Going, Going, Gone! by comedy star Jana O’Connor at Teatro La Quindicina
By Liz Nicholls@12thnight.ca The hero of Going, Going, Gone! Jana O’Connor’s new 30s-style screwball comedy, is an antiques dealer: “shy, uptight, uncommitted, afraid to make a wrong move in life” as the amused playwright describes him. Everything, in short, that … Continue reading
Psst, are you going to Brad’s party? Everyone We Know Will Be There
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey everybody, we’re invited to a party at Bradley Freeman’s house. He’s turning 17 and, yay, his parents are away somewhere, on a yacht. So he’s having people over. In Everyone We Know Will Be There: … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Andrew Ritchie, Edmonton theatre, Elena Belyea, indie theatre, Nextfest 2017, site-specific theatre, Thou Art Here, Tiny Bear Jaws
Consulting the fortune teller at Teatro: let’s ask Mark Meer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was a pungent, not to say eye-watering, debut. Fifteen years ago, an actor/improviser of expandable comic talents got enlisted by Teatro La Quindicina for a new screwball comedy. The play? Vidalia, named for the sweet, … Continue reading
Hey, emerging audience! it’s a weekend to go out to the theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s always anticipation in theatre, as there should be, about “emerging” playwrights, directors, actors. There are whole festivals devoted to them, like the upcoming 2017 edition of Nextfest. Leave aside for another day the tricky question … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, ELOPE, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network
Celebrate Will’s birthday: see who he cut from Hamlet before opening night
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thoughts for Shakespeare’s birthday weekend.… It’s entirely possible there’s a theatre play ready for germination in every playwright brain. By that I mean a play about the theatre, and there’s a wealth of raw material to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Lyle Victor Albert, one-act play festival, plays about theatre, Stage Struck
MacEwan’s new downtown arts centre: a peek inside
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca There’s a surprise waiting for Edmonton downtown. It’s in an elegant glinting glass-wrapped box that catches the light on all sides. And it’s tied up with lime green ribbons. Here’s impossible magic for you: what’s contained … Continue reading
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