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Fame and fortune in the digital world: Liam Salmon’s Subscribe or Like taps into millennial ambition
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You’ve got to figure it’s no accident Liam Salmon wants to meet for coffee the old-fashioned way, in person, to talk about their new play Subscribe or Like, premiering live and in person Friday at Workshop … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight, ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Listen, Listen: a new Teatro Live ‘Muzak-al comedy’ by Elyne Quan. Meet the playwright in this preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For five years or so, a character has taken up residence in a back corner in Elyne Quan’s writer brain. He’s an ideal renter. He lives quietly; he doesn’t play his music loud. Montague Gray, who … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Concrete Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Elyne Quan, Teatro Live!, U of A drama department, Varscona Theatre
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Spinning an urban story on wheels: Thou Art Here opens its season with Cycle
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Andrew Ritchie has spent the last year spinning his wheels. He’s been up on his bike writing the solo play that shares a lane with an audience this weekend for the first time. Cycle, which launches … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton bike lanes, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre
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Anahita’s Republic: a thriller takes us into the world of Iran and the struggle for women’s rights
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The thriller that gets its Alberta premiere Friday at the Backstage Theatre takes us to a tense world where “freedom” reverberates at a frequency very different from our own. The disparity between its application to men … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 12thnight.cah, AuTash Productions, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Iranian theatre, Stratford Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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Boy Trouble: a new play about growing up the hard way, queer and without role models
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The teenage characters we meet in Boy Trouble are growing up the hard way: queer and on the Prairies. Coming-of-age, the universal struggle for identity, is harder times 100 when you’re figuring out your sexuality for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Edmonton Fringe Spotlight Series, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest
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Wait, who’d be crazy enough to improvise a musical? Meet the creators of Flop!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’re onstage at the new Rapid Fire Theatre Exchange, looking at each other and the audience. They were supposed to have written the new musical they’re supposed to be performing for 10 nights (it says so … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Second City
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Dreaming (and dancing) big: Prison Dancer premieres at the Citadel’s Collider Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a theatre festival that thinks big about the new — creating it to live on large performance spaces across the country and beyond, developing, celebrating and showcasing it. The Citadel’s Collider Festival, a collision of … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian Film Centre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, National Arts Centre, National Creation Fund, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Prison Dancer Inc., Punctuate! Theatre
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‘Legal but complicated’: Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You cannot shoot vampires during the day,” says Hannah Moscovitch, from a car across the world in Prague at 5 in the afternoon. The star Canadian playwright is driving past beautiful old buildings and cherry trees … Continue reading
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Tagged APTN, Crave, Edmonton theatre, Hannah Moscovitch, Interview With The Vampire, Theatre Network
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After the funeral: Darrin Hagen’s dark comedy 10 Funerals premieres at Shadow Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Funerals,” says the booming baritone voice on the phone, “are so weird.” Darrin Hagen is something of an expert. And if there ever was a year to confirm it, it’s been this one, allegedly (but only … Continue reading
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Tagged Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Guys in Disguise, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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‘A dream within a dream’: Catalyst’s Nevermore, in a 15th anniversary concert version
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst Theatre, Edgar Allan Poe, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University, Vertigo Theatre
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