Category Archives: Previews

Teatro Live! announces a new season

Posted on July 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the centre of Teatro Live!’s upcoming 43rd season, announced this past weekend, are revivals of two seminal Stewart Lemoine comedies of very different hue. And the 2024-2025 lineup at a company devoted to comedy in … Continue reading →

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Fast and furious: the righteous frustration of Ashleigh Hicks’ characters in Brick Shithouse, at Found Fest 2024

Posted on July 2, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The largest production in the Found Festival’s 13-year history of unexpected encounters with art opens this week in a place you might not even know about yet. As in most of Found’s surprises, that place is … Continue reading →

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Finding Found, the festival of unexpected encounters with art and artists

Posted on June 30, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “What’s going on here?” There’s a question that tickles the perpetrators of the Found Festival, devoted to art (and encounters with artists) in unexpected places. For a dozen Julys, no alley or park, no warehouse, or … Continue reading →

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Lost dreams restored in theatre magic: Michel(le) at L’UniThéâtre

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Dramatic, tragic, eventful, and very singular.” That’s how Joey Lespérance describes the real-life story that inspired his first-ever solo play Michel(le). The L’Unithéâtre season finale opens Thursday at La Cité francophone (in French with English surtitles), … Continue reading →

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Our revels now have started: Nadien Chu stars in Freewill Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in an outdoor hockey rink near you

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that launches the 35th annual Freewill Shakespeare Festival this week — destined for four outdoor community league hockey rinks — is full of strange transformations. The Tempest, one of Shakespeare’s late-period “romances,” begins with the … Continue reading →

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Finding a creative spark that had gone missing: theatre director Dennis Garnhum walks the Camino

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

“The noise in my head has been quieted by the gentle sounds of the ocean….” — Toward Beauty by Dennis Garnhum By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the story of a theatre artist who found something he thought he’d lost … Continue reading →

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Musical theatre, opera, comedy, hockey: the weekend on Edmonton stages

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On the stages of this theatre town this weekend, you can seek out an exquisite Stephen Sondheim musical, a classic opera buffa, a homegrown comedy with moving undertones. Plus a nutty (and kinda cool) idea by … Continue reading →

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The thrill of the unpredictable: Improvaganza is back at Rapid Fire Theatre

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The only truly predictable thing about Improvaganza, besides laughter (yours), is that it returns, every June — with an international array of improv talent who are all about spontaneity. I’m not making this up. Making stuff … Continue reading →

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Anthem of Life: a Zulu epic comes to the stage at Theatre Prospero to launch a trilogy

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A swirling, full-blooded Zulu epic comes to the stage next week when Tololwa Mollel’s Anthem of Life premieres in a Theatre Prospero production, part 1 of a planned trilogy. The ideas, the lush images, the stories, … Continue reading →

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The slow unstoppable spread of a rumour: Jezec Sanders’ Where Foxes Lie at Nextfest

Posted on June 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a very Nextfest sort of question: “What is something I have yet to try my hand at?” Jezec Sanders, who evidently has never seen a comfort zone he didn’t want to exit (stage left), has … Continue reading →

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