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Préparez vous, mes amis: Lucy Darling is back — with a bilingual magic/comedy show livestreaming from L’UniThéâtre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “What I love about magic as an art form,” declares magician Carisa Hendrix at a non-magical hour of the morning earlier this week, “what magic is really about, is the feeling that anything is possible.…” The … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Ballyhoo Entertainment, Edmonton theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Lucy Darling, magic shows
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The letters you wrote and never sent: Letters To No One, a new show from Dammitammy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Everyone has a stash. You know, the letters you wrote and you didn’t send. Letters in which you confess your long-hidden love (possibly in free verse). Or your rage (likely in stinging prose). Or reveal your … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dammitammy Productions, Edmonton theatre, Rebecca Merkley
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Happy Valentine’s weekend: have some theatre with your champagne
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Let’s try to ignore for the moment the origins of Valentine’s Day as a feast day in honour of a martyr, and, more recently, a massacre. Or the source of a bottomless supply of gummy limericks, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Angels in America, Calgary theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, High Performance Rodeo, Mile Zero Dance, National Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, Stratford Festival, The Alberta Queer Calendar Project
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The Situation We Find Ourselves In, and other theatrical possibilities for your weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca And for your cold winter weekend … theatre to the rescue. Yes, there are plays, two-minute films, a new book club — all online, from Punctuate! Theatre, Northern Light, Theatre Network, Play The Fool Festival, Catalyst. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Daniel MacIvor, Edmonton theatre, Matthew MacKenzie, Northern Light Theatre, Play The Fool Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, St. Ann's Warehouse, Theatre Network
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The play that haunts Darrin Hagen: the debut edition of Theatre Network’s new online book club (for plays)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In February of 1983, a kid from Rocky Mountain House, newly arrived in town, went with a pal to the theatre. The play Darrin Hagen saw that winter night would linger in his mind over the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Pride week, Edmonton theatre, Flashback, Guys in Disguise, MacEwan University, Michel Tremblay, Pisces Bathhouse raid, The Queer History Project, Theatre Network, U of A Arts, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Eager-beaver thespians at the manger: two Christmas shows from Dammitammy and Whizgiggling Productions
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Holiday shows come in all shapes and sizes (and degrees of fa-la-la-la-la and levity), as well you know. And since this year you’ll be home decking the halls (and not your irritating second-cousins, after 3 eggnogs), … Continue reading
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Tagged 12night.ca, Christmas shows, Dammitammy Productions, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Nativity Story. Whizgiggling Productions
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The 12 Days of Christmas: a dozen nights of virtual celebration from the St. Albert Children’s Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If it were just a matter of a partridge in a pear tree, things would be so simple. But Janice Flower never thinks small. And neither does the 39-year-old St. Albert Children’s Theatre, where full-bodied Broadway … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Janice Flower, St. Albert, St. Albert Children's Theatre
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We need a little Christmas, right this very minute: the Varscona’s first-ever Virtual Holiday Gala
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a daunting year for live theatre, when the sound of Cheers! has rarely been heard across the land (and the sound of even one hand clapping is now a faint echo in the imagination), the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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Mary’s Wedding: a new Métis version of the Canadian classic at the Citadel (online)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Tonight is just a dream. I ask you to remember that. It begins at the end and ends at the beginning…. Mary’s Wedding, available for streaming to cross-country audiences from the Citadel Dec. 22, takes us … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mary's Wedding, Stephen Massicotte
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