Category Archives: Previews

Love, and theatre, to the rescue! Boy Player at Workshop West is Frank Moher’s Edmonton homecoming

Posted on November 2, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Gather round; here’s a real-life theatre story, It starts in tragedy, and crosses borders. Its intertwined motifs are an unlikely knot of loss and love … and show tunes. Its seeds are prairie, yes, but ultra-cosmopolitan, … Continue reading →

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Who am I in my down time? Iron Matron: a new Trevor Schmidt comedy to launch the Northern Light season

Posted on October 22, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Who am I in my down time? Who am I when I’m alone with myself?” That’s the particular kind of identity question that floats the amusingly named Iron Matron, the new Trevor Schmidt play premiering Friday … Continue reading →

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Read the chicken bones: A big opening night in Edmonton theatre

Posted on October 15, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Let’s start with what you say….You say I fly in a mortar and pestle, sweeping a broom behind me to cover my tracks, eating naughty children, their fingers, legs, and guts, their earlobes, and, best of all, … Continue reading →

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All your questions answered: Edmonton theatre this weekend

Posted on September 25, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the week you can have your most persistent, long-standing questions answered from the stage. Here’s an introductory short-term small-scale answer to a question it may not have occurred to you to ask: where has … Continue reading →

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The Ties That Bind: a new season at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre

Posted on September 14, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For their upcoming 48th season, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, devoted to the development and showcasing of the Canadian repertoire and its writers, will feature a trio of mainstage productions from veteran theatre artists with long and … Continue reading →

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A new musical for the mouthy red-haired orphan from Green Gables: Bridget Ryan’s OH, ANNE! at Theatre Network

Posted on September 12, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The original musical comedy that launches the new ‘Roxy Remixed’ season at Theatre Network this week has a heroine for our Moment: optimistic, fanciful, plucky, un-squelchable. Anne with an ‘e’, the mouthy red-haired orphan from P.E.I, … Continue reading →

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It’s play time in Edmonton theatres: the new season

Posted on September 4, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey Edmonton, it’s time to come out and play! The new theatre season is starting. And it enters buoyed by cheering news from our grand-slam summer theatre festival: the 45th annual Fringe sold a heart-lifting 142,000 … Continue reading →

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SWAN? returns home, to the festival where it hatched, to celebrate its hundredth performance

Posted on August 27, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca SWAN? has flown the world.  Lauren Brady’s dark bouffon/ballet clown comedy has alighted at the world’s biggest fringe festivals, in Edinburgh and Adelaide, twice, and won awards from the High Commission of Canada and the Beaverbrook … Continue reading →

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The remarkable origin story of a Canadian drag legend: Go West, Young Man, a Fringe review

Posted on August 19, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

Go West, Young Man (Stage 11, Varscona Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The sheer fabulosity of drag queens can dazzle you into assuming that they aren’t born and “emerge,” but somehow spring to life fully formed, be-gowned and sparkling. And … Continue reading →

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A cross-border Fringe story, with a fistful of firsts: meet the creators of Jeff and Grungled KNOW FRILLS

Posted on August 10, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is a cross-border/ cross-festival/ cross-platform/ cross-time zone story in which the Fringe has a plum role (and Zoom has a bit part). The route to Jeff and Grungled KNOW FRILLS, opening Thursday at Mile Zero … Continue reading →

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