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It’s the theatre season, and you have options this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, there’s a Theatre Season (now, there’s a term that’s gotten a little rusty) going on in this town. There’s live theatre in your weekend — two openings Friday night alone — and you have options. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Geoffrey Simon Brown, Northern Light Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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Workshop West: the playwrights’ theatre is back, live, with a new season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre turns 43 this season with a live, all-Canadian lineup, dubbed “Daring Greatly,” that includes two premieres by Edmonton playwrights, the return after a decade to a signature WWPT new play development festival, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Playwriting Competition, Conni Massing, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Springboards New Play Festival, The Shoe Project, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The artist as work-in-progress: Azimuth Theatre has a new program for that
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the creative world of what-if’s where theatre lives, here’s an alluring one: “Wouldn’t it be great if … instead of a part-time job to pay for your … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, AZ-MAP, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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EDMONten is back, to showcase full-length 10-minute plays
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’re new, they’re full-length, and, impossibly, they’re 10 minutes long, curtain up to curtain down. EDMONten is back this week, live and online from the Grindstone Comedy Theatre, for a second annual showcase of six original … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, EDMONten, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, The Short & Suite Collective
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‘A lovely step back into live performing’: What was it like to be a Fringe artist in 2021? We asked.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For artists, the Fringe has always been an experiment. Does their new show have potential? Will it attract an audience? How will the audience react? Will they get it? Laugh in weird places? In 2021, when … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Follow the Signs Theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, La Cité francophone, Margin Release, Squirrel Suit Productions, Whizgiggling Productions
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The finale, an update: The Fringe returned, small but live, and the people came…
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “A grand experiment.” That’s that’s how Megan Dart, Fringe Theatre’s interim executive director, describes this year’s trimmed one-of-a-kind adaptation of the Edmonton Fringe which ends its 11-day run tonight. “Like any good show you don’t know … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Together We Fringe
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Together We Fringe: the second annual live Telethon happens Friday
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Last year about this time, we were still reeling from the woulda/coulda been’s — and the heartbreak that the 39th annual Fringe was cancelled. That was a first. And so was the telethon that The Fringe … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, EPCOR, Fringe Telethon, Heart and Soul Fund
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Mamma Mia! here we go again: live theatre is back at the Mayfield
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It sounds like the blueprint for a door-slammer farce to be sure (the kind that the Mayfield Dinner Theatre propels across its stage from time to time). After closing and re-opening and re-closing the doors a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Mamma Mia!, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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