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A hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy: what to see at The Answer Is Fringe

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Starting Thursday you can take ownership of The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Yes, in an amazing summer telescoping of time, the Fringe is back in Old Strathcona, with the 42nd annual edition … Continue reading →

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To all of your questions, The Answer is Fringe: tickets go on sale today at noon

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You are now perfectly positioned to answer for yourself the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. And unlike Deep Thought (in Douglas Adams’ trippy and comical Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy), it won’t take … Continue reading →

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And the 2022-2023 Sterling Awards go to …

Posted on June 26, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The season on Edmonton stages was toasted live and in person Monday night at the 35th annual Sterling Awards gala, for the first time at Edmonton Fringe Theatre headquarters — directed by Kate Ryan and hosted … Continue reading →

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This year’s Sterling Award for outstanding contribution to Edmonton theatre will go to the late great Judy Unwin

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

At the start of the year we had very sad sad news in Edmonton theatre. With the untimely death, at 76, of Judy Unwin, we lost a bona fide arts pioneer, a public-spirited artist who played many roles in the … Continue reading →

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A cabaret, an opera, a comedy, thriller, a festival: yup, a weekend of theatre in Edmonton

Posted on June 9, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For your weekend entertainment, Edmonton theatres are standing by, and you shouldn’t miss your chance. You could experience … … the reinvention of cabaret. For one thing, there’s nothing like getting the scoop first-hand. In his … Continue reading →

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The year in Edmonton theatre: the Sterling Award nominations led by The Royale

Posted on June 5, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A vintage boxing story with a stinging right hook proved the top choices of jurors, as the the 35th annual Sterling Award nominations were announced Monday at Fringe Theatre headquarters. The Royale, Marco Ramirez’s highly theatrical … Continue reading →

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Shadow Theatre announces an all-Canadian 30th anniversary season

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre will launch its upcoming four-production all-Canadian 30th anniversary season with its first-ever mainstage musical. And it’s homegrown. Crescendo!, set in a women’s community choir, is by Sandy Paddick, with original music and musical arrangements … Continue reading →

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The Answer Is Fringe: the upcoming 42nd edition of our summer theatre bash, and a curated season of shows, too

Posted on May 26, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We’ve long suspected it. And now it’s official. “The answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” is … the Fringe.  The Answer is Fringe, the upcoming 42nd annual edition of Edmonton’s summer … Continue reading →

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An all-star weekend of choices in Edmonton theatre

Posted on May 5, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca An all-star weekend of choices in Edmonton theatre. Here’s a selection. •At the Citadel, First Métis Man of Odesa, created by and starring real-life husband and wife theatre artists Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova, is a … Continue reading →

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‘A dream within a dream’: Catalyst’s Nevermore, in a 15th anniversary concert version

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” Consider it a haunting (a subject on which Edgar Allan Poe is something of an authority). Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death … Continue reading →

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