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The Citadel unveils a new season of 10 shows. Here’s the 2024-2025 lineup

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shakespeare gets reimagined in two high-contrast productions in the upcoming $13 million 2024-2025 season unveiled by Citadel Theatre artistic director Daryl Cloran Monday night. Of the four musicals announced in the 10-show lineup at Edmonton’s biggest … Continue reading

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What’s up, Edmonton? Act II of the theatre season is about to begin

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lights up, Edmonton. Take your seats, friends; intermission is over. And Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. The tip-off? Next week, Farren Timoteo’s terrific (and much-travelled solo show Made In Italy returns … Continue reading

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2023: The year in Edmonton theatre, part 2

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2023 (part 2). Here’s a small assortment (in no particular order) of highlights — moments, performances, bright ideas, experiences — of the year of live theatre on Edmonton stages. Home sweet home. 2023 was the year.… … Continue reading

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2023: The year in Edmonton theatre, part 1, the play’s the thing

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2023. It was the year a small Edmonton theatre company with new artistic directors and an affirmative declaration for a name, devised an original way to remind us of the remarkable breadth of the performance scene … Continue reading

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Get your festive on, release your inner elf: a selection of holiday shows on E-town stages this week

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Like holiday traditions, shows at this time of year come in every size and weight, and volume of fa-la-la-la-la. And if you’ve been resolutely festive-resistant so far, this is a week on E-town stages where you … Continue reading

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With Bells On: and now it’s a musical, premiering at Theatre Network. A preview

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A new holiday musical gets it world premiere Thursday on the Theatre Network mainstage). And this is how it started. A decade ago, a New York director/choreographer/producer/artistic director, home for the holidays, took his folks to … Continue reading

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Excitement in a theatre town: you have to be there. Theatre possibilities this week

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca More proof, as if you needed any, that Edmonton is a theatre town: A week of exciting possibilities for your nights out. A Quebec thriller. A musical about the struggle to write a musical about the … Continue reading

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Couch dwellers arise! It’s a crazy week in Edmonton theatre

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a week in Edmonton theatre that’s crazy with possibilities. Which is to say this is no time to be thinking of staying home, much less renewing your dibs on the couch. Two Edmonton theatres launch their … Continue reading

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Fun (really!) with Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing, an inspired Theatre Yes 2-night production

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Well, THAT was fun!. A word that is only rarely (I need hardly remind you) applied to productions of Hamlet. The first night of The Play’s The Thing, Theatre Yes’s two-night production of Shakespeare’s longest, most … Continue reading

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We’ve lost a giant: celebrating the life of Thomas Peacocke, the small-town kid who changed Canadian theatre

Last fall, theatre here and across the country sustained a huge blow with the passing ot Tom Peacocke at 89. It still seems hard to believe. In him the much diluted term “legacy” is restored to its full lustre and … Continue reading

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