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Behind the scenes at Mermaid Legs, the theatrical centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new Beth Graham play premiering Feb. 29 as the mainstage centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival, has the best, most evocative, most intriguing, title of the season. Mermaid Legs, commissioned by the theatre and multi-disciplinary … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beth Graham, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival
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Andrea Menard’s Rubaboo, a Métis cabaret: songs, stories, and an emotional jouney to open your heart
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The title of the “cabaret” that opens Thursday on the Citadel’s Maclab stage borrows the Michif word for a multi-ingredient stew. In Rubaboo, Andrea Menard — the acclaimed Métis singer-songwriter/ actor/ playwright/ teacher/ founder of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Andrea Menard, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grand Theatre, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre
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Pith! The return of a signature Teatro comedy and Jana O’Connor’s ‘dream role’
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca Jana O’Connor has been hearing stories in the rehearsal room. Stories which live on in the Teatro Live! archives, of the memorably frantic, complicated journeys to opening nights of Teatro’s most travelled, most often revived, arguably … Continue reading
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Tagged CBC Radio The Irrelevant Show, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!
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The Mayfield announces an upcoming big five-oh anniversary season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Mayfield Theatre turns the big five-oh next season — and achievement in itself in the rigorous world of commercial theatre. And as a milestone birthday bonus, as artistic director Van Wilmott announced Monday, the lineup … Continue reading
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David Gagnon Walker invites us to tell a story together: This Is The Story Of The Child Ruled By Fear at Workshop West
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “What is this theatre thing?” asks the innovative theatre experimentalist David Gagnon Walker. “This strange thing we do, getting 50 or 50 people in a room together to tell a story together … What’s unique about … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Strange Victory Performance, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The Citadel unveils a new season of 10 shows. Here’s the 2024-2025 lineup
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shakespeare gets reimagined in two high-contrast productions in the upcoming $13 million 2024-2025 season unveiled by Citadel Theatre artistic director Daryl Cloran Monday night. Of the four musicals announced in the 10-show lineup at Edmonton’s biggest … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Highwire Series, Citadel season, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, LightningCloud Productions, Mischief Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Spontaneous Theatre Creation, Theatre Calgary
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Why is Donna so angry? Trevor Schmidt talks about Northern Light Theatre’s Donna Orbits The Moon, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something weird is happening to the woman we meet in the solo play that opens Friday at Northern Light Theatre, starring Patricia Darbasie. What’s going on with Donna, loving wife, mother, and bake sale celeb? With … Continue reading
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Meet Paul-Ford Manguelle, the multi-talented newcomer who joins two veterans in The Drawer Boy at Shadow Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We’re here to get your history and give it back to you.” — The Drawer Boy In Michael Healey’s 1999 play The Drawer Boy, a naive young actor from a Toronto theatre company ventures into rural … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Michael Healey, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Did Cinderella’s Ugly Stepsisters get a bum rap? They’re out to prove history wrong in The Spinsters
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s all about The Dress.” Birth of a show. It’s 2017, and a man walks six feet behind two strong, tall (funny) women as the three theatre artists stumble home from the Winnipeg Fringe beer tent … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Monster Theatre, Small Matters Productions
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