Category Archives: Previews

Some kind of wonderful: Beautiful: the Carole King Musical comes to the Jube. Meet the star Sarah Bockel

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “She’s … normal,” says Sarah Bockel, musing on the woman she plays in the jukebox musical that arrives on the Jube stage Tuesday under the Broadway Across Canada touring banner. “She’s grounded. Pretty self-effacing. And also … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Some kind of wonderful: Beautiful: the Carole King Musical comes to the Jube. Meet the star Sarah Bockel

Song-and-dance con men, two World War I plays, and more… a theatre weekend in E-town

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A con game (with song and dance) is one of your options for a night out at live theatre this weekend. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a larky musical by the team of David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit, … Continue reading →

Posted in Features, Previews | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Song-and-dance con men, two World War I plays, and more… a theatre weekend in E-town

From Nootka Sound to Vimy Ridge: Redpatch, an Indigenous soldier’s tale comes to the Citadel

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You could do a lot of exhuming in the archives, in novels, diaries, war poetry, and never discover this striking and mysterious fact: more than four thousand Indigenous Canadians signed up to fight in the First … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on From Nootka Sound to Vimy Ridge: Redpatch, an Indigenous soldier’s tale comes to the Citadel

Laughter in the face of death: Neil Grahn’s The Comedy Company launches the Shadow season

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Neil Grahn and comedy. He’s sidled, plunged, back-flipped into it. He’s written it and improvised it, acted it, produced it, directed it, studied it at a distance and up close, for stage for film for TV. … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Laughter in the face of death: Neil Grahn’s The Comedy Company launches the Shadow season

Chills and thrills in a theatre town: stake out a stage near you

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Uncanny, isn’t it?, how often the words “ordinary nice polite guy-next-door” show up in reports of homicidal rampages? Researcher Eugene Crowley, the noted “mind-hunter,” is in town this week to give a public lecture on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Features, Previews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Chills and thrills in a theatre town: stake out a stage near you

In the land of Pretenderos, a plot of epic proportions: Die-Nasty returns with a Lord of Thrones season

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Epic battles, dynastic conflicts and alliances, murderous intrigues, lethal challenges, fierce creatures (in striking character roles), aspirational heroes, ancient grievances, copious references to The Throne, a plot that no one person can fully understand…. Yes, smells … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on In the land of Pretenderos, a plot of epic proportions: Die-Nasty returns with a Lord of Thrones season

The fear of flying, and the return of Dead Centre of Town

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ladies and gentlemen, we will be boarding tonight by zone. The dead centre zone. For 11 years now, Catch the Keys Productions has been leading us on nocturnal Halloween expeditions into the macabre, digging in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on The fear of flying, and the return of Dead Centre of Town

“It calls bullshit on scientific distance.” Blood: A Scientific Romance opens its mysteries under The Maggie Tree.

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something odd is happening to Jayce Mckenzie and Gianna Vacirca. Their cast-mates in Blood: A Scientific Experiment have noticed it. So has their director Brenley Charkow; ditto their producer Kristi Hansen of The Maggie Tree, an … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on “It calls bullshit on scientific distance.” Blood: A Scientific Romance opens its mysteries under The Maggie Tree.

The mysterious twin bonds of life and art: meet playwright Meg Braem

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You try to make sense of things,” says Meg Braem, whose chosen line of work is the transmutation of real life — in all its perplexing, maddening, intriguing potential — into art. “You’re always searching….”  Braem … Continue reading →

Posted in Features, Previews | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The mysterious twin bonds of life and art: meet playwright Meg Braem

And in other theatre news: Tonight! Teatro’s season-end grand finale bash and Collin Doyle’s new play at Script Salon

Posted on October 14, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is how the Teatro La Quindicina mind ticks: the last production of their 2018 season, Skirts On Fire, has just closed, ergo it’s the moment for a grand finale … of grand finales.  Bring Down … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on And in other theatre news: Tonight! Teatro’s season-end grand finale bash and Collin Doyle’s new play at Script Salon