Category Archives: Features

What to see at Find Your Fringe: some thoughts to get you started

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Fringe is back, starting Thursday, in the town where the continent’s fringe phenom began. Yup, the biggest and oldest Fringe festival on the continent is a bona fide grassroots Edmonton invention, crazy, improbable, irresistible. And … Continue reading →

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Summer! theatre in New York with trimmings

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca NEW YORK – On a sultry Saturday afternoon 10 days ago under Manhattan Bridge, in an amiable queue for a cone at Brooklyn Ice Cream, an elegant French woman from Basel explains to me, en français, … Continue reading →

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Hints, signs, omens of spring: theatre possibilities this weekend

Posted on May 24, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the terrific new Conni Massing play Dead Letter, premiering at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre we meet a woman who’s desperate for meaning, obsessed by the unaccountable, hyper-alert to any small sign from the universe that … Continue reading →

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This weekend in a theatre town: get festive, see what’s onstage

Posted on May 3, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On the stages of this theatre town this weekend is a high-contrast array of entertainment possibilities, from a comic adaptation of a classic novel to the enactment of an advice column to a full-fledged festival. Have … Continue reading →

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Onstage in Edmonton this weekend, choices! A survey

Posted on April 19, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your biggest problem this weekend in this theatre town is … choice. That, and the moment of truth for procrastinators. And the possibilities are high-contrast, to put it mildly, from companies of every size, aesthetic, and … Continue reading →

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The long weekend in a theatre town

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What happens on a long weekend in a theatre town? For starters, a new indie puppet musical and a musical theatre classic, an insightful and captivating comedy about teenage girls, a musical revue, a new play … Continue reading →

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Springboards, Workshop West’s signature new play festival, is back

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Springboards is back this week. And with it, our annual backstage pass to the world of artistic creation, where new plays get born and develop. Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s new play festival, which returned after a … Continue reading →

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Three musicals and a comedy: snow reason to stay home, the weekend onstage

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton, you have choices on stage this weekend, including a delightful and insightful comedy that sees into the complicated lives of teenage girls, and three musicals that land miles apart on the musical theatre spectrum  — … Continue reading →

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This is no weekend to stay home: see some theatre

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wheee. It’s the weekend, and your entertainment on Edmonton theatre stages awaits. Check out some possibilities. In a cross-company pooling of talent, Trevor Schmidt’s new comedy Robot Girls premieres at Shadow Theatre. Four teenage girls at … Continue reading →

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Making A Monster: Northern Light Theatre announces the upcoming 49th season

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Where do monsters come from? Do we all have one lurking in our dark cores? What conditions are ideal for creating or discovering or releasing our inner monster? Ah, and is there a point of no … Continue reading →

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