Category Archives: Previews

Get your festival on (and other theatre, too) this week

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a three-festival week in this theatre town (in addition to a much anticipated theatre revival and an intriguing opera experiment).The festive season is here, and the moment is at hand for you to venture forth … Continue reading →

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Hints, signs, omens of spring: theatre possibilities this weekend

Posted on May 24, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the terrific new Conni Massing play Dead Letter, premiering at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre we meet a woman who’s desperate for meaning, obsessed by the unaccountable, hyper-alert to any small sign from the universe that … Continue reading →

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Your invitation into a world of dreams: Peter Hinton-Davis directs a chamber version of Das Rheingold at Edmonton Opera

Posted on May 23, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The dream is as epic as the world, and as small as … a ring. Das Rheingold, the opening gambit in Richard Wagner’s monumental four-opera Ring Cycle, is the grand finale of Edmonton Opera’s 60th anniversary … Continue reading →

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Find Your Fringe, the upcoming 43rd annual edition of our big August theatre bash, and a post-Fringe season of shows too

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The continent’s biggest and oldest Fringe festival turns 43 this summer — with shows (216 of them) and artists (1,600-plus from 11 countries). And now the upcoming edition Aug. 15 to 25 has a theme. Find … Continue reading →

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Do the minor mysteries of the cosmos add up? Dead Letter, a new Conni Massing play premieres at Workshop West

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the great theatre archive there’s no shortage of plays that involve mail, misdirected, stolen, forged. There are plays constructed entirely of exchanges of letters. Last year Irish Repertory Theatre in New York did an entire … Continue reading →

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Making The Debut: a new play by DJ Kena León debuts at RISER Edmonton

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Debut, the music-filled play premiering this week under the RISER Edmonton banner, lives up to its name in multiple ways, from multiple angles. For one thing, it marks the arrival in the world of theatre … Continue reading →

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On the road again: the Freewill Shakespeare Festival takes The Tempest to community league hockey rinks this summer

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,/ Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not….” The Tempest, Act III, scene 2 The Freewill Shakespeare Festival has taken its game resident playwright on … Continue reading →

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Jabulani: a new arts festival, and a new play, to celebrate Edmonton’s African, Caribbean, and Black Albertan culture

Posted on May 1, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A new Edmonton arts festival makes its debut this week. And it’s designed to celebrate, and showcase, the rich diversity of Edmonton’s African, Caribbean, and Black Albertan culture. In the inaugural edition of the Ribbon Rouge … Continue reading →

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En garde! The Three Musketeers at the Citadel, a fight director’s dream gig: meet Jonathan Hawley Purvis

Posted on April 24, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Never fear quarrels but seek hazardous adventures….”  — The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas En garde. The actors are armed and dangerous. In the Citadel season finale (opening Thursday on the Shoctor stage), when you see light glint … Continue reading →

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Survival through laughter, a true-life story: Basic Training at Edmonton Fringe Theatre

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The 23 characters who we meet at the Fringe’s Backstage Theatre Friday in Basic Training — conjured by a particularly agile playwright/ performer/ comedian — have taken an unusually circuitous route to get here. They’ve crossed … Continue reading →

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