Category Archives: Previews

The reigning monarch of the long title is back with a dance theatre season: Toy Guns’s Jake Hastey

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls. 12thnight.ca The titles of are a tip-off. They float through the air, free-associating in a long, whimsical, adventurous accumulations. They’re not shackled by mere practical considerations. They’re ample, to say the least.  The titles of Toys Guns Dance … Continue reading →

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PattyZee@TheRoxy: Theatre Network launches a new cabaret series

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Music and storytelling merge at close range!” Actor/singer Patricia Zentilli, one of the country’s most accomplished cabaret artists, says that’s the closest she can come to a definition of cabaret. And Edmonton audiences will have a … Continue reading →

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Play the Fool sends in the clowns

Posted on September 28, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Those that are fools, let them use their talents….” — Shakespeare, Twelfth Night An outbreak of clowns is at hand in this theatre town. And, as you’ll see at Play The Fool, the “festival of clown … Continue reading →

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Shocker’s Delight! Ron Pederson directs his favourite play at Teatro La Quindicina

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In 1993, a kid named Ron Pederson fell deeply in love. With a play. The object of his affection struck him as funny and wistful, complicated but simple, and sad, a highly unusual kind of comedy. … Continue reading →

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Seasonal returns: High Tea and the Theatre 6-Pack

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Let no one argue that Firefly Theatre & Circus doesn’t take the high road. With the return of their annual High Tea Sunday, Firefly takes vertical integration literally, and tea-time to dizzy new heights. You can … Continue reading →

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From Romeo to Shakespeare: meet Andrew Chown, the actor who plays the mystery man

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca So who is William Shakespeare anyhow? The world has always wondered. And in the romantic comedy that opens the season Thursday on the Citadel mainstage, we meet the mystery man himself — as a young working … Continue reading →

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“We’re all in this together” forsooth: the spirit of inclusion in the Citadel season opener

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Shall I compare thee to a … sum … a sum … a something, something… Damn it.” In the opening scene of the play that launches the new Citadel  season Thursday, we meet an up-and-coming playwright … Continue reading →

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The new theatre season begins: hey, Edmonton has play dates!

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “And the wall keeps out the enemy/ And we build the wall to keep us free….” —Hadestown In Hadestown, the Broadway-bound musical whose out-of-town opening happens at Edmonton’s largest playhouse the Citadel (Nov. 11 to Dec. … Continue reading →

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The 25th anniversary edition of the Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon is sudsing up

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Welcome to Dystopia! The 25th annual edition of Edmonton’s venerable improv comedy tradition, the Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon, is at hand. Starting this very evening, 7 p.m. at the Varscona Theatre, the forces of the improv elite — the … Continue reading →

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That masked man is back: a new Phantom of the Opera sings the music of the night

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never fully explained….” With this opening gambit, and signature organ arpeggio, a 1911 beauty-and-the-beast potboiler by an obscure Parisian hack/bon … Continue reading →

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