Category Archives: Previews

A new season, and with the departure of Bradley Moss the end of an era at Theatre Network

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Theatre Network, that storied company in the beautiful new theatre on 124th Street, turns 51 this season. And it’s with reduced programming that invites shows by diverse artistic creators onto its two stages — and news … Continue reading →

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Pinocchio: a hit AMTC musical for kids returns, a test of ingenuity and theatre magic

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Fifteen years ago, a highly eccentric, episodic 36-chapter 19th century Italian novel, a fairy tale adventure with a puppet hero who dreamed of being a real live boy, tickled the fancy of a musical theatre writing … Continue reading →

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For the love of the kid: meet Patricia Zentilli, star of The Pink Unicorn at Northern Light Theatre

Posted on September 24, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The woman we meet in The Pink Unicorn is a small-town Texas widow, a very conservative very religious church-goer whose world suddenly hits major turbulence when her teenage daughter announces she’s gender-queer. Not only that, Trish’s … Continue reading →

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‘The Vile and the Vigilant’: Workshop West announces a new season, with three new Canadian plays

Posted on September 22, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Three new Canadian plays premiere this season at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, as artistic producer Heather Inglis announced last week. The lineup that includes the company’s signature annual new play festival Springboards. And a return to … Continue reading →

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Kris Alvarez invites us to meet her parents: Banana Musik launches Common Ground’s Prairie Mainstage Series

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is nothing remotely classifiable about Banana Musik, launching Common Ground Arts’ new Prairie Mainstage Series Friday. There’s storytelling, yes, and a memory play with unusual trimmings. There’s original music. There’s a celebration of the immigrant … Continue reading →

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The season is underway, in dreams, aspirations, memories. A quick 12thnight survey of the week on Edmonton stages

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca •The star of The Shiniest Piece Of Trailer Trash, the solo show launching the Fringe Theatre season tonight, is a dreamer. The aspirational raccoon from the crummy trailer park on the wrong side of the tracks … Continue reading →

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Boy, tiger, sea journey … and the magic of puppets. Life of Pi at the Citadel: meet puppet designer/creator Brendan James Boyd

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It would seem to define the impossible: the page-to-live stage adventure of Life of Pi, Yann Martel’s 2001 Booker Prize-winning novel. A story about an Indian teenager lost at sea for 227 days? Afloat on a … Continue reading →

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It’s Fringe Eve, and Edmonton’s biggest opening night is coming up: five shows I’ve enjoyed before

Posted on August 13, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A year has been weirdly compressed. And somehow, magically, it’s the eve of the Fringe, the 44th annual edition of Edmonton’s mighty summer theatre bash. When the curtains go up Thursday night at 8 p.m., they … Continue reading →

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Two sensational celebrity trials inspire two new plays at the Fringe: The Cult of the Clitoris and Cadaver Synod, a preview

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Both, in their way, were celebrity trials. And both trials, in separately sensational ways, 1,128 years apart, have inspired two new plays premiering at the Fringe. Like theatre, history can be weirdly generous that way. Witness … Continue reading →

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A dark absurdist comedy introduces us to contemporary Ukrainian theatre: Bomb. A Fringe preview

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Can you name a single Ukrainian playwright? Me neither. Fringe Full of Stars is about to change that.    When director Lianna Makuch got her hands on Bomb, a dark, absurdist comedy by the contemporary Ukrainian … Continue reading →

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