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Can’t fight this feeling: Rock of Ages is onstage at the Mayfield next season

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As the life-coach sages commonly known as Journey have taught us, don’t stop believin’. The Mayfield’s Van Wilmott didn’t. For months, he’s been working on getting the rights for Rock of Ages, the unrepentantly good-time hair … Continue reading →

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The Shadow knows: putting the comedy back into Chekhov, and the new season

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If everyone took anti-depressants, Chekhov would have had nothing to write about….” The playwright himself called it “Chekhov in a blender.” But Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, by the raucous American absurdist Christopher Durang … Continue reading →

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The House Series: comedy, cabaret, and music at the Citadel next season

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Girl Brain, the sketch comedy troupe that zigzags through the lively minds of three smart and funny women, is being lured downtown for a weekend next season at the Citadel. Alyson Dicey, Caley Suliak and Ellie … Continue reading →

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Nun but the brave: for your theatre habit, a grand assortment on E-town stages this weekes this week

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

  By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What is it with all the nuns on Edmonton stages this week? It’s a bumper crop, second to nun. In The Candidate at the Citadel, you will see two different heavenly examples, (in a sense … Continue reading →

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Dear Evan Hansen arrives in the upcoming Broadway Across Canada season

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca An innovative award-winner of a Broadway musical with every kind of contemporary traction is the finale of the upcoming three-show Broadway Across Canada season. Dear Evan Hansen, arriving at the Jube Feb. 11 to 16 2020, … Continue reading →

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Happy Valentine’s champagne and a show: where to take your date to celebrate

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Of all the high holidays, the one that shares a name with a variety of massacres and martyrdoms is coming up. It’s also the ultimate date night. So in order to celebrate romance, there are a … Continue reading →

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A new Ellen Chorley play is the centrepiece of the upcoming Northern Light season

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The centrepiece of Northern Light Theatre’s upcoming season, announced Saturday, is a new play by one of Edmonton’s most unusual artists. Ellen Chorley, the director of Nextfest since 2016, is an award-winning playwright, actor, director, dramaturg, … Continue reading →

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Abandon your grinch, all ye who enter here: holiday shows on E-town stages this week

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Give yourself a holiday treat this week. This week on E-town stages, you can feel the holiday spirit in a live radio play (It’s A Wonderful Life), a Christmas panto (Little Red Riding Hood), or a … Continue reading →

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Merry Merry quite contrary: the Christmas spirit up against resistance, 4 festive shows on E-town stages this week

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Merry Merry quite contrary. Some are born with the festive spirit; some achieve it, and some have it thrust upon ’em. And sometimes, as you know, seasonal high spirits have to be released (or wrestled down) … Continue reading →

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And so it begins, the new theatre season. Edmonton has play dates, and here’s a teaser!

Posted on September 15, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you’re stuck in your story and want to get out … sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty….” Matilda. In Matilda, the joyously subversive musical spun from Roald Dahl’s novel, our activist eight-year-old … Continue reading →

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