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Hot theatre choices on Edmonton stages for your long weekend, a 12thnight survey

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You don’t lack for choices in Edmonton theatre as the long weekend approaches (Queen Victoria wouldn’t have it any other way). Consider some of your options: the premiere of a new Canadian play with a whimsical … Continue reading →

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The Doorstep Plays: showtime for emerging playwrights in your own backyard

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Make yourself at home, people; you’re already at the theatre. All you have to do is step outside your door, and it’s showtime in your own personal venue. Theatre Yes, specialists in theatre that happens in … Continue reading →

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Once more unto the park in 2026? Freewill Shakespeare Festival launches a ‘save the fest’ campaign

Posted on May 12, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For 35 summers the Freewill Shakespeare Festival has been banishing the winters of our discontent (not to mention, bringing on joy and mirth, and generally inspiring a holiday humour). Summer Shakespeare à la Freewill is a … Continue reading →

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The rise of RISER: a new works festival from Common Ground

Posted on May 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca RISER has risen. Again, and in a new, expanded form. Edmonton, where theatre is the leading arts industry, was always the right place for the visionary national initiative — launched by Toronto’s Why Not Theatre — … Continue reading →

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Shadow Theatre announces a four-show upcoming season, launched by a new Canadian musical

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre’s upcoming four-production 32nd season will launch with the premiere of a much-anticipated new Canadian musical. In Morningside Road, by the remarkably versatile Edmonton artists Mhairi Berg (book) and Simon Abbott (music), a girl connects … Continue reading →

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Getting our Canadian stories, our voices, our dreams off the page and onto the stage: meet director Jan Selman

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You could call it “retirement.” After a quarter century at the U of A, in which she has directed every sort of play, taught acting and directing, encouraged young playwrights, commissioned new Canadian plays, sat on … Continue reading →

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Lots to see on Edmonton stages this week, a small survey of the landscape

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, Edmonton. You have choices for your evenings out at the theatre this week: two Canadian comedies, a wicked Brit satire, a multi-disciplinary arts festival, a stage adaptation of a much-loved novel, a prairie love story, … Continue reading →

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New plays, revivals, festivals, cabarets, improv, genre switcheroos: we survey an intriguing week in Edmonton theatre

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A big opening by a premier Canadian playwright, an improbable steal by big-budget theatre, a powerful verbatim-theatre production, a musical by a new-ish company — and another two-festival week on Edmonton stages, one devoted to the body … Continue reading →

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Raise a glass to World Theatre Day

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s World Theatre Day, and the moment to reflect on the art form that, above all others, is about human connection — stories told live; beauty and sorrow, insights and experiences shared live — across cultures, … Continue reading →

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Dance Nation at SkirtsAfire 2025: artistic producer Amanda Goldberg talks about her festival debut

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The SkirtsAfire Festival returns this week for a 13th annual edition (with theatrical skirts of every length, style, and fit). And on the mainstage of this resourceful multi-disciplinary celebration of female artists, is a play that … Continue reading →

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