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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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What I learned at this year’s Fringe: thoughts of a Fringed brain
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I want to go to the beautiful place and enjoy the view and then come back. I think we all do.” — Leo in Stewart Lemoine’s The Margin of the Sky You can’t go off to … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Fringe 2022, News/Views
Tagged Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Grindstone Comedy Theatre, Guys in Disguise, Rapid Fire Theatre, Scona Alumni Theatre Company, SNAFU, Teatro La Quindicina
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A last weekend at the Fringe: how did THAT happen? See some shows!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca How on earth did it happen? Amazingly, it’s the final weekend of Destination Fringe. So much theatre, so little time. True, the Fringe has been unfailing creative, non-stop, about not vanishing during The Great Pause. But … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2022, Edmonton Fringe reviews, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival
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Be very pumped: further thoughts on a big Fringe opening night
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Tonight’s the night: the biggest opening night in town, by a considerable margin. Come 8 p.m. Destination Fringe, with its 164 shows on 27 venues (artfully scaled down from the gargantuan 2019 edition) is up and … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Fringe 2022, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dammitammy Productions, Destination Fringe, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, House of Hush Burlesque, Send in the Girls Burlesque, The Little Red Ball Company
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Where do new musicals come from? Meet the creators of The Erlking and Conjoined at the Fringe
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Where do new musicals come from anyhow? The 2022 Fringe has a surprising number. What sort of theatre artists are moved to complicate their lives immeasurably by channelling their storytelling through music and lyrics? 12thnight caught … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Edmonton theatre, Scona Alumni Theatre Col, Straight Edge Theatre
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Getting intrigued: further thoughts on what to see at Destination Fringe
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Every life coach (and no travel agent) will tell you it’s not the destination but the journey. But it’s also the Destination, since that’s the moniker of this year’s Fringe. The exploration is yours, my friends. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cuban Movements Dance Academy, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Monster Theatre
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‘A post-pandemic brain scrubber’: what to see at Destination Fringe
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your Destination is on the right (also on the left and straight ahead). And this late-pandemic world seems … possible and ready to be lively. Yes, the Fringe is back, starting Thursday, in the town where … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Guys in Disguise, Rapid Fire Theatre, RibbitRePublic, SNAF, Straight Edge Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina
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We are approaching our Destination: Fringe tickets go on sale today at noon
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s been a long pandemical journey — uphill, full of stops and re-starts and detours, on a bumpy road, with skimpy signage, in the dark. Sometimes it seemed as if we’d never get there; sometimes we … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Fringe 2022, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Edmonton theatre, Garneau Theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre, KidsFringe, La Cité francophone, péhonán, Theatre Network, Varscona Theatre
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Four decades of playing without a script: the Rapid Fire Theatre story is now a book
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The thing you’ve just got to love about Rapid Fire Theatre is that everything that makes you anxious (if not out and out crazy) in life is delightful to them. It’s their high-octane fuel, their motivation, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Patti Stiles, Rapid Fire Theatre, Theatre Network, Varscona Theatre
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Summer theatre adventures in New York
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca New York City last week — It started in a heart-warming cross-border exchange, with trimmings. In the mezzanine of the Lyceum Theatre on West 45th 15 minutes before curtain on a Thursday night performance of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway theatre, Circle in the Square, Edmonton theatre, Lyceum Theatre, New York Theatre, Public Theatre, Stephen Sondheim, Studio 54
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