Category Archives: Previews

Excitement in a theatre town: you have to be there. Theatre possibilities this week

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca More proof, as if you needed any, that Edmonton is a theatre town: A week of exciting possibilities for your nights out. A Quebec thriller. A musical about the struggle to write a musical about the … Continue reading →

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The corrected version: The art of the thriller and what not to tell you about Mob, opening the Workshop West season. Meet star Kristin Johnston

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are many things you can’t, mustn’t, know in advance about Mob. For your own good. So many, in fact, that it’s tricky for Kristin Johnston to talk about the hit Quebec thriller that opens the … Continue reading →

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The art of the thriller and what not to tell you about Mob, opening the Workshop West season. Meet star Kristin Johnston

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are many things you can’t, mustn’t, know in advance about Mob. For your own good. So many, in fact, that it’s tricky for Kristin Johnston to talk about the hit Quebec thriller that opens the … Continue reading →

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The collision of worlds and mythologies: Makram Ayache brings The Hooves Belonged To The Deer home to Edmonton

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Five years ago Edmonton audiences saw an explosive new play about an immigrant kid, Arab and gay, negotiating the conflicting calls of cultures and generations, trying to find his way into a new life. That was … Continue reading →

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Couch dwellers arise! It’s a crazy week in Edmonton theatre

Posted on October 18, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a week in Edmonton theatre that’s crazy with possibilities. Which is to say this is no time to be thinking of staying home, much less renewing your dibs on the couch. Two Edmonton theatres launch their … Continue reading →

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Crescendo!, Shadow Theatre’s first-ever musical, opens the 30th anniversary season

Posted on October 16, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the last three decades Shadow Theatre has produced plays of every size, shape, tone, and sensibility, often contemporary but not always. Shakespeare, Chekhov, Noel Coward have Shadow credits; so do American big-shots like Paula Vogel, … Continue reading →

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She’s back! Karen Hines’s toxic pixie returns in Pochsy IV, to launch the Theatre Network season

Posted on October 14, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca She’s back. We met Pochsy at the Fringe in 1992, a smudgy-eyed chalky-faced kewpie with a lethal mixture of charm and vitriol coursing through her veins — and that sweet Clara Bow smile. In Pochsy’s Lip … Continue reading →

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Fun (really!) with Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing, an inspired Theatre Yes 2-night production

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Well, THAT was fun!. A word that is only rarely (I need hardly remind you) applied to productions of Hamlet. The first night of The Play’s The Thing, Theatre Yes’s two-night production of Shakespeare’s longest, most … Continue reading →

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Multi-faceted theatre artist Ellen Chorley returns to the stage in A Phoenix Too Frequent, the Northern Light season-opener

Posted on October 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The production that launches the Northern Light Theatre season Friday, returns a company known for its edgy contemporary choices to a play — a vintage post-war romantic comedy, in verse — it produced 45 years ago. … Continue reading →

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‘Celebrate amazingness!’ The Play’s The Thing has 20 Edmonton stage companies do Hamlet

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Talk about a hold on the collective consciousness. For 400-plus years the world has been wondering, and arguing, analyzing and thinking about Hamlet, the most celebrated and mysterious of plays by history’s most celebrated and mysterious … Continue reading →

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