Category Archives: Previews

Fame and fortune in the digital world: Liam Salmon’s Subscribe or Like taps into millennial ambition

Posted on May 25, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Listen, Listen: a new Teatro Live ‘Muzak-al comedy’ by Elyne Quan. Meet the playwright in this preview

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Spinning an urban story on wheels: Thou Art Here opens its season with Cycle

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Anahita’s Republic: a thriller takes us into the world of Iran and the struggle for women’s rights

Posted on May 17, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Boy Trouble: a new play about growing up the hard way, queer and without role models

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Wait, who’d be crazy enough to improvise a musical? Meet the creators of Flop!

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Dreaming (and dancing) big: Prison Dancer premieres at the Citadel’s Collider Festival

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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‘Legal but complicated’: Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, at Theatre Network

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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After the funeral: Darrin Hagen’s dark comedy 10 Funerals premieres at Shadow Theatre

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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‘A dream within a dream’: Catalyst’s Nevermore, in a 15th anniversary concert version

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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