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The Free Willies: the ‘sounds and sweet airs’ of travelling troubadours
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Some time before the end of the month, it will happen. You’ll be in a park. Or a community playground. At a farmer’s market. Or chilling on a front deck. And suddenly, a little troupe of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Thou Art Here Theatre
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Fringe FOMO: House of Hush burlesque goes live
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Take it off! No, wait…. In the age of COVID, burlesque, a teasing vaudeville involving the playful progressive doffing of apparel, can remove just about everything — everything, that is, but the mask. Masked showgirls: now, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, burlesque, Edmonton theatre, Garneau Theatre, House of Hush Burlesque, Metro Cinema, Nextfest, Send in the Girls
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And back at the castle: a radio play version of Guys in Disguise’s Dragula
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It sounds like a sublime punchline: a drag show, in all its be-wigged glam-frocked glory, as a radio play? True, there’s a certain captivating perversity about the Guys in Disguise revival of their hit Fringe show … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Guys in Disguise, radio plays, Trevor Schmidt
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Signs of life: live theatre is coming back, with cautious first steps
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca And they’re back! Very cautiously, of course, experimentally, a little tentatively, with ultra-sanitized jazz hands. And not full-blast: nary a large-scale musical in sight, needless to say. But live theatre is starting to be back … … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, BIPOC theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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The might-have-been hits home: it’s Fringe Eve in Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For months I knew it would come. The weirdest week of a weird summer. The week the Fringe doesn’t happen. It’s a might-have-been that leaves us face to face with the strangest, most unrecognizable of vistas … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, FringeLiveStream, FringeTV, The Fringe That Never Was
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Portrait of an Indigenous artist in a Fringe-less summer: Todd Houseman
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A summer without Fringes? Without real live audiences to test new material? “It’s been a deeply reflective time,” says Todd Houseman thoughtfully, of the four months-plus since in-person performances suddenly vanished from the land. “A time … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Todd Houseman
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A Telethon kicks off the strange summer when the Edmonton Fringe went online
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Everything that’s happening is changing the landscape…. Let’s make our own destiny!” — Edmonton Fringe director Murray Utas The Fringe, Edmonton’s beloved August giant of a theatre festival, and a game-changer for this town in every … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Revue, FringeLiveStream, Mind of a Snail, Murray Utas, The Fringe That Never Was
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The Fringe That Never Was comes to you, with Fringe Revue episode 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The fateful moment of the Fringe-less August approaches in the distance (OK, let’s not think about that right now). I know I know. You can’t actually go to the Fringe this year. But The Fringe That … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cuban Movements, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mind of a Snail, Miranda Allen, Murray Utas, The Fringe That Never Was
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Gender? I Hardly Know Them: the queer sketch comedy duo zooms back with a new online show
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca How do you capture a sense of humour in words? On the eve of their new (mostly) live web series httpeepee, launching Tuesday, the queer sketch comedy duo Gender? I Hardly Know Them is brainstorming on … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton sketch comedy, Edmonton theatre, Gender? I Hardly Know Them, Rapid Fire Theatre, Storyhive, Tiny Bear Jaws, Toronto Sketch Festival, Zoom theatre
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Hungry for theatre? Lodestar Theatre delivers … to your own back yard
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. In this unpredictable and isolating moment, which has sent live theatre into lockdown exile on screens, Lodestar Theatre is its own creative resistance movement. The rep company, originally from Liverpool … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Lodestar Theatre Company, Max Rubin, U of A drama department
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