Category Archives: Previews

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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‘A new bounce in its step’: The Importance of Being Earnest at the Citadel relocates to the ’50s. A preview

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The last time the distinguished director Jackie Maxwell was in town — working at the Citadel for the first time, amazingly, in 2018 — she brought to the stage a darkly funny, disturbing group portrait of … Continue reading →

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‘ClownProv’ headliners: Play The Fool is back to send in the clowns

Posted on September 17, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two of the country’s most energetic, hyperkinetic clown stars are the headliners of this year’s eighth annual Play The Fool Festival, returning Thursday for four days. Toronto’s Isaac Kessler and Ken Hall, who have evidently never … Continue reading →

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Bienvenue: a new artistic director and a new season for L’UniThéâtre

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m pretty stoked!” declares Steve Jodoin, the (perfectly bilingual) new artistic director of L’UniThéâtre, Edmonton’s only professional francophone theatre company. In these post-pandemic times he has the sense that the venerable company has emerged into the … Continue reading →

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Close encounters in the borderlands: Workshop West announces a new season

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a cross-country vision to Workshop West Playwright Theatre’s upcoming 45th season, Borderlands, Encounters on the Outskirts, announced Monday from their Strathcona headquarters, the Gateway Theatre. The trio of 2023-2024 mainstage productions at Workshop West, a … Continue reading →

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Play time! Prospects to intrigue you in the new season on Edmonton stages

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Answer Is Fringe, the 42nd annual edition of our giant summer theatre bash, with its 114,000 or so tickets sold, was a sign. Theatre is getting its groove back, after three hard years that have … Continue reading →

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From historical footnote to new musical: Amor de Cosmos, and the race to opening night at the Fringe

Posted on August 17, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca New musical theatre at the Fringe —  and there’s lots of it — has a certain wild but valiant improbability about it. So many bits and pieces, so little time. And it’s a big country. This … Continue reading →

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Stick-handling success: Kenneth Brown looks back in Life After Life After Hockey, at the Fringe

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca He couldn’t have realized it at the time. But In 1985 at the three-year-old Edmonton Fringe,  Kenneth Brown created something that would turn his life upside down (and put its stamp on Edmonton’s summer theatre extravaganza … Continue reading →

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The zigzag story of a Fringe artist: for Dammitammy Productions the answer to every question has been Fringe

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Seven summers ago, Fringe audiences up for a word-of-mouth gamble (and who isn’t?) found themselves at a show smiling at characters who never took off their bathing caps, start to finish. The Unsyncables turned out to … Continue reading →

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