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Brother Rat: a punk rock play with music (and earplugs) opens the Fringe Theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Some kids grow up listening to Itsy Bitsy Spider, and drifting off to sleep with The Cat Came Back. The soundtrack of Erik Richards’s childhood was NoMeansNo, SNFU, Minor Threats, Bad Brains. And that high-volume punk … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, NoMeansNo, punk rock musicals, ReadyGo Theatre
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A love story with complications, in a new musical: Des McAnuff brings The Ballad of Johnny and June to the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Ballad of Johnny and June, the musical that opens Thursday at the Citadel is a love story, with complications. And its director and co-creator Des McAnuff, pre-rehearsal last week, is hunting for the big-impact historical … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway musicals, Chelsea Theater Center, Citadel Theatre, country music, Edmonton theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Public Theatre, Shakespeare Theater Company, Stratford Festival
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Who’s the real monster? Monstress, a new Trevor Schmidt thriller, launches the Northern Light season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Trevor Schmidt calls his latest play, launching the Northern Light Theatre season Friday, “my Lady Frankenstein show.” Playwright Schmidt, NLT’s long-time artistic director, has long been fascinated by the female perspective, female windows on the world, … Continue reading
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The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow, a new World War I play by Neil Grahn, premieres at Shadow Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca He was “arguably the greatest soldier this country has ever produced,” as playwright Neil Grahn puts it. “And nobody knows his name….” Grahn’s new play The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow, premiering Thursday to open the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, APTN, Canadian World War I history, Edmonton theatre, Francis Pegahmagabow, indigenous theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Playwright Stephen Massicotte talks about Stars On Her Shoulders, his latest, premiering at Workshop West
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In 2002, a story of first love, a dreamscape looped against the horrific backdrop of World War I, changed the life of the graphic designer-turned-actor who’d “jumped into theatre cold.” as he puts it. Since its … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Theatre Projects, Edmonton theatre, Mary's Wedding, Stephen Massicotte, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, World War I history
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Two actors, a passion, and a mission: Jean Genet’s The Maids, three years in the making, opens downtown
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the chiller of a play that opens October 25 in an eerie downtown basement, you’ll watch two sisters act out a dangerous, nerve-wracking, possibly lethal, role-playing game with each other — in a theatre of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jean Genet, Pendennis Building, U of A drama department
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Bear Grease: an Indigenous makeover for the classic musical, at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Call it cosmic inevitability if you will. Or maybe an irresistibly cool idea whose time is overdue. But some shows can’t not be born. Bear Grease, the hit Indigenous makeover of that classic 1972 musical that … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bear Grease, Citadel Highwire Series, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre, LightningCloud Productions
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Let’s do the Time Warp again: on being Dr Frank-N-Furter in Grindstone’s cult classic season opener
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s time warp time. Picture this: a little kid in the single-digit age bracket, with Halloween insomnia, sneaks downstairs way past his bedtime and turns on the TV. He flips through the channels; he stumbles on … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2024, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Orange Hub, Rocky Horror Show
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Exploring the Great Beyond: ‘Mump and Smoot in Exit’ premieres at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It took them a while to get back here with a show. A decade to be precise. But there was something entirely natural about finding Mump and Smoot and their director Karen Hines last week in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bouffon clowning, Edmonton theatre, Mump and Smoot, Theatre Network
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The return of The Invisible: Catalyst’s hit spy musical is back, before it sets forth on tour
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Catalyst hit spy musical that opens Thursday at the Eva O. Howard Theatre returns to us Jonathan Christenson’s compelling all-female World War II espionage story, pried from history and imagined in a high-style, thrillingly theatrical … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Victoria School of the Arts
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