Category Archives: Previews

Welcome to the Rock! Come From Away comes from away, back to the Jube

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Come From Away, the homegrown Canadian musical Broadway hit that travels the world on a jet stream of raves, major awards and sold-out runs, has come from away, again. It lands at Jube for the third … Continue reading →

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Reaching for magic: Lindsey Angell stars as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, launching the Citadel season

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “The world is violent and mercurial–it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love. …We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is … Continue reading →

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‘Saints and Rebels’: Workshop West announces a new season and a bold experiment in ticketing

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre turns 46 with a new season, two Canadian premieres, a Christmas show, and a bold invitation to the audience to “pay what you will” for every ticket to every show. “A pilot … Continue reading →

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Theatre Network at 50: an anniversary season and a story of Canadian theatre

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When a pair of horror clowns named Mump and Smoot take to the Roxy mainstage Oct. 8 for the first time in a decade, those interplanetary existentialists from Ummo will be launching Theatre Network’s 50th anniversary … Continue reading →

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Edmonton has play dates: here’s a dozen intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s time to play. After a year of continuing struggle, with rising production costs and dwindling funding, theatre companies and artists are finding their way back to stages large and small. Our mighty summer Fringe, as … Continue reading →

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Edmonton’s biggest opening night: the Fringe starts tonight

Posted on August 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Tonight’s the night!  Edmonton’s biggest opening night. Do not be dismayed, or paralyzed, by the 216-show 38-venue dimensions of the 43rd annual incarnation of our big summer theatre bash. Gordon’s Big Bald Head, the stunningly expert … Continue reading →

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Find Your Fringe: further thoughts on what to see, from 12thnight

Posted on August 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s the eve of the 43rd annual Edmonton International Fringe Theatre festival. And you have 216 shows in 38 venues to choose from. Don’t be daunted, be pumped. Be curious as you dive into the Fringe multi-verse. … Continue reading →

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Play into musical: risk-takers at the Fringe. Rob and Chris (Bobby + Tina) – A New Musical

Posted on August 12, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Whenever you wonder if the Fringe losing its experimental zest, along comes a project that embraces the original risk-taker’s proposition of the festival. A show that’s all about having a bright idea rather than a finished … Continue reading →

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What to see at Find Your Fringe: some thoughts to get you started

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Fringe is back, starting Thursday, in the town where the continent’s fringe phenom began. Yup, the biggest and oldest Fringe festival on the continent is a bona fide grassroots Edmonton invention, crazy, improbable, irresistible. And … Continue reading →

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Reimagining history in a cautionary tale: Civil Blood: A Treaty Story, a Thou Art Here epic at the Fort

Posted on July 19, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It began with a vision of an Indigenous/settler Romeo and Juliet, star-cross’d lovers reaching across the colonial divide. And gradually a bigger, richer, more complex story — poised at an historically critical juncture in our collective … Continue reading →

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