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‘My love letter to queer and trans kids’: The Adventure of Young Turtle launches Expanse Festival 2024
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One morning this week, I went on an undersea excursion backstage at the Westbury Theatre, and I met an apprehensive moray eel. Their body was once an air compressor hose, their eyes Gatorade bottle lids, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Fringe theatre, Saskatoon theatre, So.Glad Arts
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Springboards, Workshop West’s signature new play festival, is back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Springboards is back this week. And with it, our annual backstage pass to the world of artistic creation, where new plays get born and develop. Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s new play festival, which returned after a … Continue reading
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A groundbreaking musical about making art: a rare chance to see Sondheim’s Sunday In The Park With George, at MacEwan
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “There’s a part of you always standing by, Mapping out the sky, Finishing a hat….” Something rare and special is happening this week at MacEwan University: a production of Sunday In The Park With George. There … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Georges Seurat, MacEwan University theatre arts, pointillism, Stephen Sondheim, Triffo Theatre
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This is no weekend to stay home: see some theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wheee. It’s the weekend, and your entertainment on Edmonton theatre stages awaits. Check out some possibilities. In a cross-company pooling of talent, Trevor Schmidt’s new comedy Robot Girls premieres at Shadow Theatre. Four teenage girls at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Concordia University of Edmonton, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre
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Making A Monster: Northern Light Theatre announces the upcoming 49th season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Where do monsters come from? Do we all have one lurking in our dark cores? What conditions are ideal for creating or discovering or releasing our inner monster? Ah, and is there a point of no … Continue reading
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SOUND OFF, the unique national Deaf theatre fest, is back for an 8th annual edition
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca SOUND OFF, the influential national festival unique in the country and the continent, is back, and here in its hometown, for an eighth annual edition Tuesday. The brainchild of Chris Dodd, SOUND OFF is dedicated to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, SOUND OFF 2024
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A-line, mini, midi, pleated … what’s on at SkirtsAfire 2024. Meet the new artistic producer Amanda Goldberg
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca SkirtsAfire, the multi-disciplinary 12-year-old festivities that celebrate and support women in the arts, is having a a transitional big-M Moment. Founder and artistic director Annette Loiselle, the veteran actor/director whose bright idea SkirtsAfire was in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsAfire Festival 2024, Sound Off
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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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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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