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Happy hour from Bright Young Things: meet the stars of Fallen Angels
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “My mind is a mass of corruption,” Noel Coward told the Evening Standard in 1925. “England’s solid-gold jazz baby,” as his biographer John Lahr described him, was responding to the selection of epithets dusted off by … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Edmonton theatre, Fallen Angels, Noel Coward, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
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The forgotten sister comes into her own: meet Mikaela Davies, star of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I grew up with the kindest, cleverest, and most beautiful elder sisters in the country; and with the loudest, silliest, and prettiest younger sisters in the country,” says Mary, in the romantic comedy that brings a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jane Austen, Lauren Gunderson, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Pemberley, Pride and Prejudice
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Enter smiling, glass in hand: the Varscona Theatre Ensemble season begins with Fallen Angels
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the effervescent 1924 comedy that opens Thursday on the Varscona stage, you will see two married women, bored with contentment and longing for passion, restore the zing of excitement to their lives. They levitate into … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Atlas Theatre, Bright Young Things, Doug Curtis, Edmonton theatre, Fun Home, Noel Coward, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
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If you could live forever… Tuck Everlasting the musical at St. Albert Children’s Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If “the music!” is the answer, what is the question? It seems wise to consult musical theatre experts. Janice Flower and Jackie Pooke, director/artistic director and choreographer respectively, are on the phone explaining their attraction to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Arden Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Janice Flower, St. Albert, St. Albert Children's Theatre, Tuck Everlasting
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What A Young Wife Ought To Know: a 20s love story with a modern reverb opens the Theatre Network season:
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Ladies, you’ve come by it, have you? Can I ask, do you tell your Husbands…that you’ve come by it, or…do you….keep it from them….?” — Sophie in What A Young Wife Ought To Know, Hannah Moscovitch In … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2b theatre, Edmonton theatre, Hannah Moscovitch, Marianne Copithorne, reproductive rights, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network, women's sexual health
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Viscosity: Theatre Yes challenges preconceptions about big oil and the people who work it
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s not exactly a play, although there are actors. It’s not exactly journalism, although the monologues are transcribed (and edited) verbatim from interviews with real-life people. And you might resist calling it an exhibit, although you … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta oil and gas industry, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Heather Inglis, Theatre Yes, verbatim theatre, Viscosity
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Some kind of wonderful: Beautiful: the Carole King Musical comes to the Jube. Meet the star Sarah Bockel
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
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Brill Building, Broadway Across Canada, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Jubilee Auditorium, jukebox musicals
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Song-and-dance con men, two World War I plays, and more… a theatre weekend in E-town
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
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Foote in the Door Productions, Grindstone Theatre, Neil Grahn, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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From Nootka Sound to Vimy Ridge: Redpatch, an Indigenous soldier’s tale comes to the Citadel
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
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Hardline Productions, indigenous theatre, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, World War I
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Laughter in the face of death: Neil Grahn’s The Comedy Company launches the Shadow season
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
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Princess Patricia's Light Infantry Division, Shadow Theatre, The Comedy Company, The Dumbbells, Varscona Theatre
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