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Having Patience: Opera Nuova festival opens with G&S

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Twenty lovesick maidens we….” Let romantic melancholy descend, my friends…. Patience may be a virtue, but it’s also a rarely performed 1881 musical satire/ operetta by the redoubtable team of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Their … Continue reading →

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A Sterling year onstage: nominations for Edmonton’s theatre awards

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A musical comedy in which a town and its citizens are transformed by putting on a show — a notion that Edmonton can enthusiastically get behind — proved the top choice of jurors as the 30th … Continue reading →

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You’ll be binging at A MIdsummer Night’s Fringe

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca ‘Tis very midsummer madness!” Oops, wrong Shakespeare play. Right spirit. Our upcoming 36th annual Edmonton Fringe Festival, the oldest on the continent and still the biggest, has its signature theme. As announced Thursday, come August 17 … Continue reading →

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Teatro turns 35 with a new season of comedies, variously hued

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Oh, it’s beyond fun….”  — Dominica, in The Talking Turk Now, there’s a mantra for a Teatro season. In The Salon of the Talking Turk, the vintage Stewart Lemoine comedy that launches Teatro La Quindicina’s  2017 … Continue reading →

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Concrete plans for a big upcoming season

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s no coincidence that the most influential and travelled show in Concrete Theatre history has a title with a question mark: Are We There Yet?. For the 28-year-old Edmonton theatre, devoted to exploring the thorniest social … Continue reading →

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The Virgin, The Whore, Something In between: Northern Light announces a new season

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Next season Northern Light Theatre and L’UniThéâtre will share the premiere of a new play by Edmonton’s Cat Walsh, a playwright who specializes in the dark-unto-macabre end of the comedy spectrum. Trevor Schmidt’s production of Do … Continue reading →

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The Shadow knows: Collin Doyle’s Slumberland Motel premieres next season

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Stellar news for Edmonton theatre-goers! After 11 years of being an “exciting prospect,” Collin Doyle’s long-awaited Slumberland Motel will actually arrive on stage next season — at Shadow Theatre. Billed as “a road-weary comedy,” the 2006 … Continue reading →

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Players De Novo replaces Belke play as annual fundraiser

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Five weeks before opening night Players de Novo and Workshop West Playwrights Theatre announced their decision Wednesday to replace David Belke’s Forsooth My Lovely as their upcoming fundraising production.  This is their statement: “After careful consideration, … Continue reading →

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Edmonton theatre veteran arrested on the charge of possessing child pornography

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Edmonton theatre community has been shocked by sad bad news today. Playwright/designer/sometime comic improviser David Belke was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. Belke “has resigned from Shadow Theatre,” where he was a … Continue reading →

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Raising $ for theatre, the entertaining way

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The seductions of entertainment to call your own: Edmonton’s theatres have to be creative in their unceasing efforts to generate funds to do what they were born to do … put on shows.  This spring you … Continue reading →

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