Category Archives: Previews

Ready for your close-up Mr. Shakespeare? The Freewill Shakespeare Festival in a vintage spiegeltent this summer

Posted on August 3, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This summer, when lovestruck Romeo says “what light from yonder window breaks?” the light will break from stained glass windows and bounce off bevelled mirrors. Starting this week at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, as announced on … Continue reading →

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Travel, adventure, discovery: Teatro Live! announces a new season

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Teatro Live turns 42 next season with a four-comedy line-up that returns to one of the company’s most popular, widely travelled, plays. And the theatrical journey inside and out- of Stewart Lemoine’s 1997 Pith! is germane … Continue reading →

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K-Days re-imagined: local artists in a vintage spiegeltent at the EXPO Centre

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A beautiful 75-year-old “tent” has magically touched down in a parking lot at the Edmonton EXPO Centre. With the arrival of the vintage hand-crafted “Cristal Palace” spiegeltent and the entertainment it will house this summer starting … Continue reading →

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A musical for Edmonton, set in a golden entertainment age: Everybody Goes To Mitzi’s is back at Teatro

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Fourteen years ago, four young Edmonton theatre artists, emerging talents in their mid-20s, got recruited by Teatro La Quindicina, now Teatro Live!, to do something together, something they’d never done before. Jocelyn Ahlf, Andrew MacDonald-Smith, Ryan … Continue reading →

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Fun with Jane: Austentatious at Walterale

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Can a theatre town get enough Austen? Is there an Austen city limit? The people have spoken: the answer is No. Mieko Ouchi directed a cavorting stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at the Citadel this … Continue reading →

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Let’s get Found: the festival of unexpected encounters with art and artists is back

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Surprise! You’re about to be Found. Yes, the festival of of unexpected encounters with art and artists is back, starting Thursday, for a 12th edition in Old Strathcona. And at Found 2023 you could find yourself … Continue reading →

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Two hauntings on Edmonton stages this week

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Get haunted, at an Edmonton theatre (a couple of options). •The sassy burlesque artists of Send in the Girls and House of Hush, have never shied away from uncovering stories from history, then uncorseting them, for … Continue reading →

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All things circus, a musical comedy, and a new play: Edmonton onstage this weekend

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your chance to run away and join the circus is at hand. Thanks to Firefly Theatre and Circus, we have a whole festival for all things circus. The Alberta Circus Arts Festival returns Thursday for a … Continue reading →

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Improvaganza is back, for the first time at the Exchange, Rapid Fire Theatre’s new home sweet home

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You can never quite know what will happen at Improvaganza. And that’s how it’s supposed to be. The improv talent from here, there, and everywhere arriving for the 2023 edition of Rapid Fire Theatre’s annual international … Continue reading →

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Cosmic time-travelling into history: Black Alberta at Nextfest

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It started with history:  the story of Black civil rights in Alberta, and leading players in a real-life narrative of which Albertans are woefully ignorant. And from that writer/historian Bashir Mohamed has opened a door into … Continue reading →

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