Category Archives: Previews

A homecoming for playwright Trina Davies, at Concordia U, Walterdale and SkirtsAfire

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A couple of decades ago, an Edmonton kid found herself onstage, at a theatre festival where the plays were new, and specially designed for teen actors and their teen audiences. It was at the Citadel Teen … Continue reading →

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The Boo! Revue: the new Varscona Theatre Ensemble says hello Sunday

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Three of Edmonton’s most inventive little indie theatre companies are forming a trio — in a new umbrella ensemble that will produce a subscription season of shows at the Varscona Theatre. Together, Plain Jane Theatre, Bright … Continue reading →

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It’s Jesus’s mom’s turn to speak: The Testament of Mary at Northern Light Theatre

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The star of the famous story gets top billing and a lot of press. And he always has, being the Son of God and starting a world-wide religion and all. But you don’t hear from his … Continue reading →

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Music, stories, cabaret, ‘infotainment’, opera, and plays: a weekend of trick and treat on Edmonton stages

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a musical journey that cuts to the soul of a turbulent history. In Freedom Singer, which arrives at the Citadel Club starting tonight as part of a cross-country tour, the Detroit-born Canadian musician Khari Wendell … Continue reading →

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Quantum physics and the infinite possibilities of love: Constellations opens the Shadow Theatre season

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

Watch Constellations trailer By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you’ve ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes. — Marianne in Constellations In the mind-bending love story that launches … Continue reading →

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Oil money, glamour, seduction, betrayal … the new season of Die-Nasty starts Monday

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s 1983. And world-class cities don’t come any world-classier than the one down the road. Yes, it’s in the gleaming cloud-capp’d towers of Calgary, that fabled Shangri-La of wealth and power and world classiness, oiled by, … Continue reading →

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A horror show from history: Dead Centre of Town is back to haunt the Fort

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s the chilly season when the veil between the present and the past is at its thinnest. And this, my friends, is a haunted place. Catch The Keys Productions is once again leading us on an … Continue reading →

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Embracing the other: Ubuntu’s cross-cultural journey at the Citadel

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens on the Citadel’s Maclab stage Thursday wasn’t born, like other plays, in a story, a character, an image. Ubuntu would end up with all of the above, unspooling in dance, movement, music, … Continue reading →

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The sounds of silence: What It Is brings The Aliens to the Roxy

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Sunday crack of noon on a harsh fall day. Four guys, slightly bleary and hoping coffee will change that, are sitting around talking in a chilly theatre.    The director and cast of The Aliens, verbal … Continue reading →

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What dark secrets lurk under the small town idyll? Rapid Fire Walk With Me improvises a mystery series a la David Lynch

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Through the darkness of future past/ the magician longs to see/ one chants out between two worlds/ fire walk with me….“ In the 1992 David Lynch horror film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me — a prequel to the … Continue reading →

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