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How To Ruin The Holidays, a new feature film from improv stars Kevin Gillese and director Arlen Konopaki
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “At Christmas all roads lead home.” As the stand-up comedian heroine (Amber Nash) of How To Ruin The Holidays discovers, evasionary tactics may stall this inevitable Yuletide GPS, but it will not change the destination. There’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Archer, Dad's Garage, Edmonton film, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Metro Cinema, Rapid Fire Theatre
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How did we get here? the question, the cabaret, the new play, the anniversary production
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Consider for a moment the question that’s been asked — in every tone of voice, every degree of exasperation or relief, bemusement or amazement, wonder or perplexity — by every one of us, especially in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Conwitz Productions, Die-Nasty, Edmnton theatre, Foote in the Door Productions, Grindstone Theatre, Script Salon, Theatre Network, Varscona Theatre
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Excitement in a theatre town: you have to be there. Theatre possibilities this week
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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Tagged Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Dad's Garage, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, In Arms Theatre Collective, Larry Reese, MacEwan University theatre arts, Metro Cinema, Rapid Fire Theatre, Script Salon, Theatre Network, Trinity Gallery, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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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
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catherine-Anne Toupin, Dammitammy Productions, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Quebec theatre, Teatro Live!, Théâtre La Licorne, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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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
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian thrillers, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Teatro Live!, Théâtre La Licorne, Walterdale Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The collision of worlds and mythologies: Makram Ayache brings The Hooves Belonged To The Deer home to Edmonton
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Buddies in Bad Times, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, In Arms Collective, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto theatre
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Couch dwellers arise! It’s a crazy week in Edmonton theatre
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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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, Karen Hines, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, U of A Studio Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Crescendo!, Shadow Theatre’s first-ever musical, opens the 30th anniversary season
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre
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She’s back! Karen Hines’s toxic pixie returns in Pochsy IV, to launch the Theatre Network season
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, High Performance Rodeo, Karen Hines, Mump and Smoot, Theatre Network
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Fun (really!) with Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing, an inspired Theatre Yes 2-night production
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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Tagged Batrabbit Collective, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Guys in Disguise, L'UniThéâtre, Marv 'N Berry, Rapid Fire Theatre, Ready Go, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Yes, Workshop West
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