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Hamilton is coming: Broadway Across Canada announces a new season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton audiences will get their first crack at the most acclaimed musical of the era next season. Hamilton, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical of 2015, arrives on the Jube stage July 27 to Aug. … Continue reading
A New Year’s wish from 12thnight.ca
Happy New Year, theatre friends! Suddenly it’s 2020 (a number normally reserved for excellent vision), and the third anniversary of 12thnight.ca. I hope you’ve been enjoying the coverage of theatre, Edmonton’s most exciting and influential arts specialty, on my site, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre season
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Welcome back! Act II of the Edmonton theatre season is about to begin
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know what you’re thinking — post-festivity regret, punishing resolutions, the sense of finale. But cast off these thoughts: the theatre season isn’t ending. It’s only intermission. And intermission is over. Welcome back; Act II is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta Aboriginal Arts, Broadway Across Canada, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Impossible Mongoose, Malachite Theatre, Mayfield Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Stonemarrow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Todd Babiak, Wild Side Productions
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The return of the 12thnight holiday quiz
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Curl up, hoist a glass to the intrepid energy and invention of our theatre artists, check out our review of 2019 theatre highlights here— and try our holiday theatre quiz. In which show, produced this year … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre season, holiday quiz
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The year in Edmonton theatre: looking back on 2019
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Social media, video games, pop culture, the 2-D screen world … “all worthless, and we don’t even watch the same worthless things together,” rages Vanya, letting loose an elegiac full-blooded rant on the modern devaluation of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blarney Productions, Bright Young Things, Broken Toys Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Kat Sandler, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Wildside Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
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Heather Inglis is Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s new artistic producer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre has a new “artistic producer.” She’s Heather Inglis, the founder and artistic director of the adventurous Edmonton-based indie company Theatre Yes. With the departure of Vern Thiessen after five years as artistic … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Heather Inglis, Theatre Yes, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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What to see this weekend on E-town stages (don’t stay home)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Time (a possible paradox). There’s never enough of it. It never stands still. It’s almost impossible to make a dent in it. You can move forward through it, but are you actually standing still? The show … Continue reading
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Tagged CUE, Edmonton theatre, Grand Poney, La Cité francophone, Mile Zero Dance, Nicole Moeller, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Giving thanks for theatre: the long weekend on E-town stages
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s the moment to be thankful for Edmonton’s most captivating arts asset – our theatre scene. Many possibilities are waiting for you this weekend, including a macabre entertainment spun from our own neglected history. And … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Dead Centre of Town, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Saint Maggie Productions, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, U of A drama department, Walterdale Theatre
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Hey, the theatre season has landed: a weekend on E-town stages
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You may have noticed: the stars have aligned; the E-town theatre season is underway. This week there are musicals, plays, an original screwball comedy. There’s a staged reading of a play that’ll open on a stage … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2019-2020 theatre season, Andrea House, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Firefly Theatre and Circus, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Hey Ladies!, Mayfield Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Saint Maggie Productions, Script Salon, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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