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What does it mean to live here? A tiny sneak preview of rehearsals for The Garneau Block, coming up at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What saves us is our sense of community: theatre has always known it. Cities have to learn it. And coming up is a new play about Edmonton, by an Edmontonian, for an Edmonton audience, that’s all … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Belinda Cornish, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton novels, Edmonton theatre, The Garneau Block, Todd Babiak
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10 years with the Janes: Plain Jane Theatre celebrates with a new revue, Get Happy!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Happiness. So how’s that going for you? Is the state of happiness a democratic republic? Is happiness something to be approached gradually, on tiptoe? Something to be pursued vigorously and wrestled to the ground? Or chosen? … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, musical theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
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Locked out by a union? Whaaaat? Allan Morgan’s one-man show I Walked The Line comes to Chinook Series 2020
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I could not believe it! I could not get my head around it!” declares Allan Morgan. The veteran Vancouver-based actor, whose conversation rolls in exclamation points, is known to Edmonton audiences since he was the touring … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Allan Morgan, Backstage Theatre, Chinook Series 2020, Edmonton theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Playing the game: culturecapital, that is, the custom-made trading card game about the performing arts industry in Alberta
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two brainy Vancouver-based performance artists with an appetite for games have custom-made one for us — an original collectible trading card game about the performing arts industry in Alberta. Welcome to culturecapital, by the team of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Chinook Series, culturecapital, Edmonton theatre
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“It’s what happens when you say Yes!” Feel the breeze at the 2020 Chinook Series
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Chinook “is what happens when you say Yes!” laughs Vanessa Sabourin. She’s talking about the cutting-edge curated performance series that skips as lightly across artistic disciplines as the surprising winter breeze with the built-in warming trend. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Akpik Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Black Arts Matter, Chinook Series, culturecapital, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, Stump Kitchen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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What makes life worth living? Every Brilliant Thing makes a list, and star John Ullyatt takes you through it
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca He’s a mainstage leading man with character actor instincts. We’ve seen him clamour fearlessly through the audience, as the tarnished extrovert MC in Cabaret. Or talk to us directly as the stage manager in Burning Bluebeard. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Dave Horak, Duncan MacMillan, Edmonton theatre, John Ullyatt, Jonny Donohoe, suicidal depression
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Shakespeare gets a Cree cosmology re-fit: Pawâkan Macbeth arrives for Chinook
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Feel the breeze. Chinook, the resource-sharing multi-disciplinary series devoted to melting our preconceptions and expanding our experience of live performance and creation, is at hand. It’s a measure of creative vision (and chutzpah) that the 2020 … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Akpik Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Backstage Theatre, Chinook Series, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival
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