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The Edmonton Fringe bids farewell to Executive Director Adam Mitchell
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton Fringe Theatre is bidding adieu to its Executive Director. After five years in the demanding administration job atop the company that presents Edmonton’s giant International Fringe Theatre Festival (the country’s oldest, largest, and most influential … Continue reading
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Happy Valentine’s weekend: have some theatre with your champagne
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Let’s try to ignore for the moment the origins of Valentine’s Day as a feast day in honour of a martyr, and, more recently, a massacre. Or the source of a bottomless supply of gummy limericks, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Angels in America, Calgary theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, High Performance Rodeo, Mile Zero Dance, National Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, Stratford Festival, The Alberta Queer Calendar Project
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Looking forward to 2021 in Edmonton theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know what you’re thinking.… The world has been so chaotic and unpredictable this past year that you’d have to be crazy to ink in a calendar of upcoming theatre events. But one thing … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Roxy Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A wish for the new year from 12thnight.ca
Happy New Year, theatre friends! It was a year (was it only a year?) unimaginable in advance. A year of devastating losses and challenges for the performing arts. A year in which Edmonton’s valiant community of theatre-creators rose to the … Continue reading
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Mieko Ouchi: meet the Citadel’s new associate artistic director
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Stepping down and stepping up … on the same day.” That’s how Mieko Ouchi describes the double-sided moment in late November when Concrete Theatre announced her departure and the Citadel announced her arrival. It was dramatic … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Mieko Ouchi, RBC Horizon Emerging Artists Program
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Three days from opening, Mary’s Wedding is on hold at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca After a day of investigating the implications of the Alberta government’s perplexing new restrictions announced Tuesday afternoon, the Citadel Theatre has decided to postpone its upcoming live production of Mary’s Wedding: A Metis Love Story, which … Continue reading
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Waiting for … everything: a couple of online shows for our time
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Waiting and wondering in the weird no-man’s land between past and present: that would be us, in late 2020. Samuel Beckett is the playwright of choice for this moment. If there ever was a time to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bill Irwin, Edmonton theatre, Heidi Schreck, Irish Repertory Theater, Samuel Beckett
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Antidotes to a gruesome week: here’s a couple of surprising beautiful theatre “concerts” on film
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Looking for an antidote? It’s been a gruesome nail-biter of a week on multiple fronts; everyone knows what exactly what that question means. So, the doctor is IN. I caught a couple of truly original and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway theatre, Crow's Theatre, David Byrne, Edmonton theatre, online theatre, Spike Lee, Talking Heads
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Meanwhile, back at the Varscona … a homecoming for Teatro
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca General rule of thumb: On any joyful occasion you can never really go wrong with dancing. If there’s singing, so much the better. It frames Welcome Home, a celebration of the re-opening of the Varscona Theatre … Continue reading
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The experimental spirit lives on in Edmonton theatre, live and in unusual hybrids
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Calling the pandemic an “obstacle” to live theatre, or maybe a “challenge,” is a bit like saying COVID is the flu. The pandemic has had a devastating effect on an art whose raison d’être is the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Girl Brain, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Fox Den Collective, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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