Category Archives: Previews

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One of the most delicious true-life stories ever to come out of the Edmonton Fringe, a great natural repository of theatrical absurdities, can be traced, in a direct line of descent, to the One World Theatre … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Greg Dowler-Coltman sent me a Leonard Bernstein quote this week. “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” “How did he know?” jokes Victoria School’s theatre department maestro. He’s … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Nice work if you can get it/ And you can get it if you try….” In Crazy For You, the deluxe ‘30s musical comedy that was actually, amazingly, written in the 1990s, a stagestruck Manhattan rich … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Everybody you know has one, alive or pushing up daisies, possibly on the phone asking why you don’t call or wear yellow more often. I refer of course to moms.  And the sheer cosmic strangeness of … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The people of The Seagull, Anton Chekhov’s first great masterpiece, are chafing with confusion, disappointment, unrequited desire, time, ego. The people of Stupid Fucking Bird, an irreverent modern remix by American playwright Aaron Posner, are like that … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For 16 of its 27 years Concrete Theatre has been inviting people of every ethnic and cultural stripe, every calling, career or colour, to plant a Sprout. All they need, these playwrights or poets or painters, … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca  “All these lovers want is one shining hour/ is that such a terrible lot to ask?/ Look around you, see for yourself! The romantic atmosphere.” — from She Loves Me Happy Valentine’s Day from Plain Jane Theatre! In … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You can change the world when you change your mind.”                                                     … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the romantic evening that comes to Fort Edmonton’s vintage Capitol Theatre this weekend in honour of Valentine’s Day, the mysteriously supple talent of Andrea House wraps itself around a musical icon you might not expect … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two of the country’s most inventive directors, award-winners both, take on classics of their kind with student casts this week, at MacEwan University and the University of Alberta’s Studio Theatre. At MacEwan University, Dave Horak of … Continue reading →