Category Archives: Previews

Meet Paul-Ford Manguelle, the multi-talented newcomer who joins two veterans in The Drawer Boy at Shadow Theatre

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

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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Did Cinderella’s Ugly Stepsisters get a bum rap? They’re out to prove history wrong in The Spinsters

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

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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In the beating heart of a big Italian famiglia: Farren Timoteo’s Made In Italy comes home to Edmonton

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Farren Timoteo has always loved being Italian. “To me, it’s always been great!” he declares with his usual spirited good cheer. “Film-making, sports cars, architecture, fashion and food, music!” What’s not to love? That thought — … Continue reading →

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What’s up, Edmonton? Act II of the theatre season is about to begin

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lights up, Edmonton. Take your seats, friends; intermission is over. And Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. The tip-off? Next week, Farren Timoteo’s terrific (and much-travelled solo show Made In Italy returns … Continue reading →

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Die Harsh: The Christmas Musical, a new holiday tradition from Grindstone Theatre

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Along with the fa-la-la-la’s, it’s villain redemption season. And nothing says Christmas like the Grinch, Ebenezer, and … Hans Gruber? It takes a certain insurrectionist appetite for comedy that sings and dances on the dark side … Continue reading →

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A one-off Fringe Revue Friday at the Westbury

Posted on December 6, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Fringe goes vaudeville, in its own original way, Friday for a one-night revue. Devised by Fringe artistic director Murray Utas, who has a vaudevillian streak in his theatrical DNA (and coiffure), witness the Late-Night Cabaret … Continue reading →

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With Bells On: and now it’s a musical, premiering at Theatre Network. A preview

Posted on December 5, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A new holiday musical gets it world premiere Thursday on the Theatre Network mainstage). And this is how it started. A decade ago, a New York director/choreographer/producer/artistic director, home for the holidays, took his folks to … Continue reading →

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The Blank Who Stole Christmas: Rapid Fire Theatre’s original Christmas musical is back, with a different villain every show

Posted on November 29, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You’re a mean one, Mr. (Blank)… You’re as cuddly as a cactus/ You’re as charming as an eel….” They’ve always wanted a holiday tradition to call their own, a special Christmas show that, as Matt Schuurman … Continue reading →

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And so it begins, the holiday show season: a new company returns the panto to the Capitol Theatre at Fort Edmonton

Posted on November 27, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca People, lighten up. It’s a theatre town, my friends, and you are sliding inexorably into the season of the holiday show, of every stripe and persuasion. It launches officially this very week, with the return of … Continue reading →

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There’s no cure like travel: Far Away and Long A-Gogo! launches the Teatro Live season

Posted on November 22, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Oh, there’s no cure like travel/ To help you unravel/ The worries of living today…. “ — Anything Goes, Cole Porter Ah, wanderlust. The journey as antidote to what ails you. “When the poor brain is … Continue reading →

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