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It’s a record-breaker! The curtain comes down on Fringe Unforgettable, the 45th annual edition of our big crazy summer theatre festival

Posted on August 23, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca After 11 days and nights Fringe Unforgettable, the 45th annual edition of our big insomniac summer theatre binge, will exit the stage (all 38 of its stages, to be precise) Sunday night. And it will take … Continue reading →

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And this just in … update on Fringe holdovers, in four locations including Grindstone Comedy Theatre

Posted on August 21, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The might-have-seen wistfulness that always accompanies the end of the Fringe (which comes Sunday night) is giving you some relief next week. As already announced (read about it here), some of the Fringe’s hot-ticket shows will … Continue reading →

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An update: Hang on, there’s more! Fringe holdovers next week in three locations

Posted on August 21, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Did you forget? I have to break it to you: the curtain will come down on Fringe Unforgettable Sunday night after 11 days and nights. Your grand plan to cut a swath through the 209-show Fringe … Continue reading →

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Edmonton’s biggest opening night! The Fringe is back tonight

Posted on August 13, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca No one knows how this happens every year, a hiccup in the space-time continuum perhaps? But suddenly, mere minutes after Canada Day, it’s the biggest opening night of the season. The Fringe is back, with a … Continue reading →

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Fringe Unforgettable, the 45th annual edition of our big summer theatre binge: Tickets go on sale today!

Posted on August 5, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Today’s the day, fellow fringers. Your Fringe memory vault opens for advance deposits. It’s August, amazingly. And tickets and passes for go on sale this very day for Fringe Unforgettable, the 45th annual edition (Aug. 13 … Continue reading →

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Laughter and more: Farren Timoteo announces an upcoming Teatro Live! 45th anniversary season of comedies

Posted on July 29, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A laughing matter. “I read it and laughed out loud. And I chase that.” Words to live by when you’re the new artistic director of Teatro Live!, choosing plays to program for the upcoming 45th anniversary … Continue reading →

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And the 2025-2026 Sterling Awards go to …

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two high-contrast fairy tales — one a small-scale, whimsical musical love story with Fringe origins and the other a large-scale, fizzy 20-year-old Broadway musical —  proved the top choice of jurors at the 37th annual Sterling … Continue reading →

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Brian Paisley: we’ve lost the breezy visionary who thought up the Fringe, and changed a city forever

Posted on July 5, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The saddest of theatre news this weekend. Brian Paisley, the founder of the Edmonton Fringe (the prototype for fringes everywhere on the continent) has passed away in Mexico where he’s lived for many years, following a pneumonia-related … Continue reading →

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Fringe Unforgettable: the upcoming 45th annual edition of the Edmonton Fringe Festival has a theme, a nickname, and shows

Posted on June 29, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This year’s upcoming 45th annual Edmonton Fringe, the oldest and biggest of its kind on the continent, now has a theme, a nickname that gets to the heart of the matter: Fringe Unforgettable. At the christening … Continue reading →

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The season in Edmonton theatre: the 2025-2026 Sterling nominations, led by Cyrano de Bergerac

Posted on June 20, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca An exuberant, verse- and action- filled new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, proved the jurors’ top choice as nominations for the 37th annual Sterling Awards were announced this week. Named for theatre pioneer Elizabeth Sterling Haynes, … Continue reading →

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