Category Archives: Previews

Shadow Theatre announces an all-Canadian 30th anniversary season

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre will launch its upcoming four-production all-Canadian 30th anniversary season with its first-ever mainstage musical. And it’s homegrown. Crescendo!, set in a women’s community choir, is by Sandy Paddick, with original music and musical arrangements … Continue reading

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So, what’s new? Come to Nextfest 2023, and find out

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What’s new? What’s next? What are our up-and-coming artists thinking about anyhow? You’re in a position to find out for yourself since the 28th annual edition of Nextfest, the multi-disciplinary 11-day (and night) festival dreamed up … Continue reading

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Fame and fortune in the digital world: Liam Salmon’s Subscribe or Like taps into millennial ambition

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You’ve got to figure it’s no accident Liam Salmon wants to meet for coffee the old-fashioned way, in person, to talk about their new play Subscribe or Like, premiering live and in person Friday at Workshop … Continue reading

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Listen, Listen: a new Teatro Live ‘Muzak-al comedy’ by Elyne Quan. Meet the playwright in this preview

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For five years or so, a character has taken up residence in a back corner in Elyne Quan’s writer brain. He’s an ideal renter. He lives quietly; he doesn’t play his music loud. Montague Gray, who … Continue reading

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Spinning an urban story on wheels: Thou Art Here opens its season with Cycle

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Andrew Ritchie has spent the last year spinning his wheels. He’s been up on his bike writing the solo play that shares a lane with an audience this weekend for the first time. Cycle, which launches … Continue reading

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Anahita’s Republic: a thriller takes us into the world of Iran and the struggle for women’s rights

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The thriller that gets its Alberta premiere Friday at the Backstage Theatre takes us to a tense world where “freedom” reverberates at a frequency very different from our own. The disparity between its application to men … Continue reading

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Boy Trouble: a new play about growing up the hard way, queer and without role models

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The teenage characters we meet in Boy Trouble are growing up the hard way: queer and on the Prairies. Coming-of-age, the universal struggle for identity, is harder times 100 when you’re figuring out your sexuality for … Continue reading

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Wait, who’d be crazy enough to improvise a musical? Meet the creators of Flop!

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’re onstage at the new Rapid Fire Theatre Exchange, looking at each other and the audience. They were supposed to have written the new musical they’re supposed to be performing for 10 nights (it says so … Continue reading

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Dreaming (and dancing) big: Prison Dancer premieres at the Citadel’s Collider Festival

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a theatre festival that thinks big about the new — creating it to live on large performance spaces across the country and beyond, developing, celebrating and showcasing it. The Citadel’s Collider Festival, a collision of … Continue reading

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‘Legal but complicated’: Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, at Theatre Network

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You cannot shoot vampires during the day,” says Hannah Moscovitch, from a car across the world in Prague at 5 in the afternoon. The star Canadian playwright is driving past beautiful old buildings and cherry trees … Continue reading

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