Category Archives: Previews

A hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy: what to see at The Answer Is Fringe

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Starting Thursday you can take ownership of The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Yes, in an amazing summer telescoping of time, the Fringe is back in Old Strathcona, with the 42nd annual edition … Continue reading →

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‘I had to find my own way in’: Amanda Goldberg directs Twelfth Night at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What country, friends, is this? (I, ii, Twelfth Night) Like Viola, the heroine of the Shakespeare comedy in this year’s Freewill Shakespeare Festival, who steps onto the shore of a strange new world, director Amanda Goldberg … Continue reading →

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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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