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En route to Heaven (and Alberta’s Black history), live at the Citadel: meet star Helen Belay
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Getting to Heaven was “a long, winding journey,” says Helen Belay. Belay is not only the star of the Cheryl Foggo play of that name starting its live run on the Citadel’s Shoctor stage Saturday. But … Continue reading
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The Grindstone is ready to crack you up: the Comedy Fest is back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a laughter-parched land, there is hope. After a year of set-backs, re-sets, contortionist pivots and ingenious work-arounds involving the great outdoors in all kinds of weather, the Grindstone Theatre in Old Strathcona launches … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton improv, Edmonton sketch comedy, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, Grindstone Theatre and Bistro, John Dore
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Close encounters of the puppet kind: Puppet Pub Crawl at Found Festival 2021
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For its 10th anniversary edition (and return to live) this weekend, the Found Festival has found … puppets. Seven of them, actually, each with an original tale to tell. We’ll meet them in a Found tour … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Even Gilchrist, Found Festival 2021, Old Strathcona, puppet theatre
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Teatro La Quindicina’s 2021 summer season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It being summer (to put it mildly), and Teatro La Quindicina’s particular time of year par excellence, the company is back in rehearsal. Yes, real actors in an actual theatre, the Varscona in Strathcona. “And it … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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‘A little love letter to the Edmonton theatre community’: the Sterling Awards go digital Monday
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s our little love letter to the Edmonton theatre community,” says Kristi Hansen of the digital 34th annual Sterling Awards, free online Monday night. In “a wild year” for live theatre, the awards, named for theatre … Continue reading
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A real live in-person season at the Citadel, starting this summer. The Citadel welcomes audiences back to the big brick playhouse
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca And they’re back live —starting small in August and getting bigger — in a real live in-person season. At a well-named online Happy Hour Thursday, Citadel artistic director Daryl Cloran announced a big line-up of 10 … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Collider Festival, Edmonton theatre, Horizon Series, Mischief Theatre, National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre, Obsidian Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre
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Rocko and Nakota: star storyteller Josh Languedoc is back for National Indigenous Peoples Day
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It sits differently in my body, in my voice,” says Josh Languedoc, musing on his widely travelled solo show Rocko and Nakota: Tales From The Land. “Something has shifted this time around.” It’s been that kind … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dreamspeakers, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, EPCOR, Josh Languedoc, National Indigenous Peoples Day, Native Earth Performing Arts, starlight tours, Theatre Prospero, Thousand Faces Festival, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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