Category Archives: Previews

Planting seeds for kids theatre: the 17th annual Sprouts Festival

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For 17 springs now, Concrete Theatre has planted new plays at their annual Sprouts Festival — and watered them for future seasons. The idea from the start was to stimulate growth in the Canadian theatre repertoire … Continue reading →

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Escape Room theatre adventure puzzle: The Snow Queen is Azimuth’s latest collaboration

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In The Snow Queen, a strange and haunting fairy tale by the 19th century Danish master Hans Christian Andersen, a magic troll mirror distorts everything it reflects. It shatters, scattering icy splinters across the world. Anyone … Continue reading →

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Katherine Koller’s Last Chance Leduc: marriage on the brink of the boom

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens tonight at the Backstage Theatre is poised at the moment of a dramatic shift — in thinking, in focus, in perspective. In Alberta in 1947, big oil was discovered near Leduc. One … Continue reading →

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The curious incident of Terry and the Dog: the new Collin Doyle premieres at Edmonton Actors Theatre

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the archive of Edmonton Actors Theatre — an award-winning indie company with a solemn name but wildly playful theatrical appetites — there’s everything but the kitchen sink. There’s a a gleeful, insurrectionist satire, Fatboy. There’s … Continue reading →

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Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story. The folk tale/ rock concert/ Off-Broadway hit arrives at the Citadel

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Refugees, fleeing violence, looking for a safe place to live and love in a hostile world: it’s one of the powerful narrative currents of our time. And here’s the uncanny perpetual timeliness of the original klezmer … Continue reading →

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Defying the laws of gravity: Gravity, the cabaret of art and politics, is back Monday

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What’s happened to the laws of gravity when the world seems upside down? Grave? SNAFU, now officially a verb, has gone TARFUN. Yes, Things Are Really Fucked Up Now. And Monday night at the Westbury Theatre, … Continue reading →

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What lies Beyond The Stage at the Citadel next season?

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One of the most playful and subversive theatrical experimenters in the world is coming to the Citadel’s alternative Beyond The Stage series next season. You’ll find the Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour turning the pages of his … Continue reading →

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Teatro La Quindicina at 36: a new comedy starts the 2018 summer season this month

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Teatro La Quindicina turns 36 this summer with a season at the Varscona that includes two new Stewart Lemoine comedies. And the first them starts soon. The intriguing, unnerving premise of Lemoine’s The Finest of Strangers … Continue reading →

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A new Neil Grahn comedy headlines the upcoming 2018-2019 season at Shadow Theatre

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre launches its upcoming 26th season with a new comedy about … comedy.  The inspiration for The Comedy Company, Edmonton playwright and sketch comedy star Neil Grahn, an artist of bluechip comic pedigree (he’s the … Continue reading →

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Fun with the macabre: two veteran actors together at last in Fly Me To The Moon at Shadow Theatre

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We’re two caregivers, two nobodies,” says Frances to Loretta in the dark-hued Irish comedy that opens tonight on the Varscona stage. In Fly Me To The Moon, by the Belfast playwright Marie Jones, an initiative that … Continue reading →

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