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Destination Fringe: Edmonton Fringe Theatre is back with a moniker, a live festival, and a curated season of productions
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Edmonton Fringe is back, live, this summer, for a big 41st edition, in a place where that really matters. And its name speaks volumes: Destination Fringe. Yes, fellow travellers, as live theatre emerges from the … Continue reading
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The strange cycles of theatre: Shannon Blanchet returns to Teatro to direct the vintage comedy thriller Evelyn Strange
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Every once in a while the world of live theatre pulls off one of those satisfying but fanciful multi-strand time loops that wouldn’t be out of place in a play. Opera is involved; so is comedy. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, U of A drama department, University of Saskatchewan drama department, Varscona Theatre
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The inheritance of war and the passion for freedom: Alina is a Ukrainian story
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In early 2015, a 19-year-old woman left Kyiv, and everything in her life there — and she went to the front line of the war zone in eastern Ukraine. Alina was not a soldier. She was … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lianna Makuch, Matthew MacKenzie, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Ukrainian diaspora
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An ensemble devoted to expanding the comedy spectrum: Teatro at 40, the birthday season continues
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Teatro La Quindicina at 40. An artist-run company specially tuned to comedy, with co-artistic directors who both made their Teatro debuts as actors: same season (2005-2006), different plays, roles written specially for them by playwright/Teatro muse … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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Lighting the Bonfire: Rapid Fire’s wildest festival is back, and it’s live
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For two years, the members of the Rapid Fire Theatre ensemble have been storing up their wildest, coolest, most ridiculously challenging new ideas in improv. And that, my friends, is a lot of pent-up crazy. RFT’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bonfire Festival, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Rapid Fire Theatre
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Taking down the boss: 9 to 5 the musical at the Citadel, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight. ca Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living…. “It’s joyful, it’s funny, it’s absolutely a revenge story!” says director Rachel Peake of the musical comedy that opens this week at the Citadel, … Continue reading
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Tell Us What Happened: sexual assault and social media, in Michelle Robb’s new play at Workshop West
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new play that premieres Thursday in Heather Inglis’s Workshop West production invites us into a circle of young female friends who find themselves in crisis in the fraught border country between social media and the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, U of A drama department, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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I Don’t Even Miss You: love and legacy in a new multi-disciplinary ‘musical’ from Tiny Bear Jaws
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I can never go back to the person I was in 2020,” says Elena Belyea. And the world can’t go back to its old self either. Which brings her to “the central question: What do you … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Co*Lab, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, RISER Edmonton, Tiny Bear Jaws, Why Not Theatre
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‘A sort of musical at a sort of funeral’: ren & the wake lures alt-folk rocker Lindsey Walker back into musical theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “A sort of musical” set at “a sort of funeral”: that’s the intriguing double-billing of ren & the wake, premiering Thursday at the Backstage Theatre. The workshop production by the off-centre indie experimenters Catch The Keys … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catch The Keys Productions, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton music, Edmonton theatre, Lindsey Walker
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Revisiting your younger self: Bloomsday bends time at Shadow Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca … “that girl there … and would you — would you please just for a minute — would you please see that girl there?” — Robert in Bloomsday, by Steven Dietz “What would you say to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, James Joyce, Shadow Theatre, Steven Dietz, Ulysses, Varscona Theatre
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