Search
Patreon
Category Archives: Previews
On the road again: Mesa is a trip across the border, and the generations
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know what they say (it’s probably somewhere in the extra-fine print on the AMA website, just kidding): You never really know someone till you travel together. The buddy pic/ road trip through America that opens … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Atlas Theatre Collective, Doug Curtis, Edmonton theatre, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
“A little bit naughty”: Matilda rewrites her story in the hit musical opening at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We are revolting children/ living in revolting times. We sing revolting songs/ using revolting rhymes. Kicking, punching, and stomping are de rigueur in the rehearsal rooms of the Citadel these days. “We talk about fighting, not about … Continue reading
Close encounters with Damien Atkins: We Are Not Alone at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you tell someone you are thinking of writing a play about UFO’s, usually there will be a little silence, and then a little laugh.” – We Are Not Alone It comes with the territory. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2b theatre company, Crow's Theatre, Damien Atkins, Edmonton theatre, Segal Centre, Theatre Network, UFO sightings
Happy Valentine’s champagne and a show: where to take your date to celebrate
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
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Chinook Series, Citadel Club, Citadel Theatre, Damien Atkins, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Farren Timoteo, Fort Edmonton Park, Girl Brain, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Send in the Girls Burlesque, Studio Theatre, Theatre Network
Ins Choi at Chinook: the Kim’s Convenience creator goes solo
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s pretty much what I’ve always wanted to do!” says a genial, amused voice on the phone from Toronto. “Talk directly to the audience about my life. And make people laugh….” That double-barrelled thought has propelled … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chinook Series, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Ins Choi, Kim's Convenience, Soulpepper
A new Ellen Chorley play is the centrepiece of the upcoming Northern Light season
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
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Ellen Chorley, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
Songs My Mother Never Sung Me: an opera for a hearing son and a deaf mom
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I learned to sign before I could speak,” says Dave Clarke, who’s highly articulate, to say the least, in his second language. There’s an intriguing contradiction built right into the architecture of Clarke’s multi-angled theatre career … Continue reading
How to feel the breeze at Chinook
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a town that needed a chinook … an E-town story. And yes, we’re having one. The Chinook Series, which opens tonight, is a resource-pooling experience between arts groups with a view to … Continue reading
The body in motion: Expanse is back in the Chinook Series
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It starts with the body. As its name suggests, Expanse sets the body in motion in space — and celebrates what happens next. In the ever-expansive movement arts festival curated by Azimuth Theatre and returning to … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Performance Labs, Azimuth Theatre, bharata natyam, Black Arts Matter, Canoe Festival, Chinook Series, Dreamspeakers, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Movement Arts Festival, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Good Women Dance Collective, Hong Kong Exile, Mile Zero Dance, Rubaboo Arts Festival, Sinergia, Sound Off, Third Rail Project, Workshop West
The Citadel’s upcoming 54th season: local stars in an international galaxy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new logo is just the tip-off. Monday afternoon at Edmonton’s largest playhouse artistic director Daryl Cloran unveiled an ambitious upcoming Citadel season — its 54th and his third as the architect of the company lineup. … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged A Christmas Carol, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Mischief Theatre, Pulitzer Prize, Todd Babiak
