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2024: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a chaotic, incoherent year in the world, live theatre, which has itself been under every kind of duress in 2024, stepped up to offer us other perspectives, other visions, characters on personal quests for meaning, … Continue reading
A holiday show update! There’s more, if you get your act together
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Release your inner elf, part two. An update! More holiday shows are opening this week. You’ve got a big choice on Edmonton stages, and your time, like Scrooge’s, is running low. •It’s A Wonderful Christmas Carol … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitol Theatre Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Girl Brain, Grindstone Theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Orange Hub, Rapid Fire Theatre, Straight Edge Theatre, Theatre Network, Thou Art Here Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Embrace your inner elf and get festive, at a holiday show this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know, you’re holding out on the festive. And you don’t want to peak too soon. But pick that holly out of your clenched teeth, release your inner elf, succumb to the seasonal jollity, and find … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, Grindstone Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Straight Edge Theatre, Theatre Network, Thou Art Here Theatre, Whizgiggling Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A multi-dimensional life in the theatre: the mind- and heart-expansion effect of Jim DeFelice
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With the passing in October of Jim DeFelice, at 87, a multi-talented theatre artist and a true theatre community mentor are, at one blow, gone from us. Without him this theatre town of ours seems a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Studio Theatre, Theatre Network Playwrights Theatre, U of A drama department, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West
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And opening tonight… at the Citadel and Rapid Fire
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s been the hardest of weeks at the Citadel. The death of the much-loved actor Julien Arnold during Sunday night’s preview performance of A Christmas Carol has been profoundly shocking and sad for the theatre community, artists … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Exchange Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre
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‘A wonder of an actor’: in Julien Arnold, we’ve lost one of our finest, and most loved, theatre artists
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We — the ‘we’ across the country — woke up this morning to the most heartbreaking and tragic theatre news. The untimely passing of Julien Arnold at 58, felled by a heart attack at the Citadel … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Julien Arnold, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network
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What’s new? The weekend on Edmonton stages, that’s what: three new Canadian plays and a musical
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey Edmonton! It’s a weekend to be surprised and excited by something new on the stages of this theatre town. As the country has found out, E-town has longtime cred as a generator and showcase of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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‘Saints and Rebels’: Workshop West announces a new season and a bold experiment in ticketing
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre turns 46 with a new season, two Canadian premieres, a Christmas show, and a bold invitation to the audience to “pay what you will” for every ticket to every show. “A pilot … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stephen Massicotte, Straight Edge Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Theatre Network at 50: an anniversary season and a story of Canadian theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When a pair of horror clowns named Mump and Smoot take to the Roxy mainstage Oct. 8 for the first time in a decade, those interplanetary existentialists from Ummo will be launching Theatre Network’s 50th anniversary … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Colleen Murphy, Edmonton theatre, Mump and Smoot, Nextfest Arts Company, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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Edmonton has play dates: here’s a dozen intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s time to play. After a year of continuing struggle, with rising production costs and dwindling funding, theatre companies and artists are finding their way back to stages large and small. Our mighty summer Fringe, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre, Theatre Network
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