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Peter Oldring is funnier than you: star comedian joins Grindstone’s new comedy fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you got incensed the day your ear was caught by an item on CBC Radio One that the province of Nova Scotia had cancelled Grade 4, you’re not alone. (And you already know something about … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, CBC Radio, Dexter Guff Is Smarter Than You, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, improv comedy, Peter Oldring, sketch comedy, The 11 O'Clock Number, This Is That, This Sounds Serious
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The Shadow knows: putting the comedy back into Chekhov, and the new season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If everyone took anti-depressants, Chekhov would have had nothing to write about….” The playwright himself called it “Chekhov in a blender.” But Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, by the raucous American absurdist Christopher Durang … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chekhov, Christopher Durang, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Nassim, an adventure in language and connection: meet playwright Nassim Soleimanpour
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The last time I talked to Nassim Soleimanpour, six years ago, the Iranian playwright was in the middle of Tehran on a cellphone that kept fading out, and I had laryngitis. There’s got to be an … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bush Theatre, Citadel Rice Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nassim Soleimanpour
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Two big birthdays, one big bash: Rubaboo and Dreamspeakers festivals
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The celebration of Indigenous artists and their many-sided contributions to our shared culture takes another step forward with the tandem anniversary editions of the Rubaboo Arts Festival and the Dreamspeakers Film Festival today through May 7. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts, Dreamspeakers Film Festival, Edmonton theatre, Josh Languedoc, Rubaboo Arts Festival
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“The hour’s now come”: deaf and hearing actors together in The Tempest at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “O brave new world, that has such people in’t,” as Miranda, the daughter of a deposed ruler in exile, says in wonder towards the end of one of Shakespeare’s most mysterious and haunting plays. In the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lorne Cardinal, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Tyst Teater
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An anniversary, and a new Darrin Hagen play: we talk to the playwright and his co-star in The Empress & The Prime Minister
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s been half a century, amazingly, since a spontaneous, and violent, demonstration in a dive bar in New York’s Greenwich Village that would prove to be a galvanizing event in the history of the American gay … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, ted northe, Theatre Network
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Nun but the brave: for your theatre habit, a grand assortment on E-town stages this weekes this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What is it with all the nuns on Edmonton stages this week? It’s a bumper crop, second to nun. In The Candidate at the Citadel, you will see two different heavenly examples, (in a sense … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Firefly Theatre and Circus, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Mayfield Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Script Salon
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Alison at three ages, and the actors who play her in groundbreaking Fun Home
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Everything about the clever, heart-wrenching musical that opens Friday at the Varscona stands off the beaten track in the musical theatre-land. And it’s produced by a little company that specializes in off the beaten track musicals, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron, Plain Jane Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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