Category Archives: Previews

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Expanse has amply lived up to its name. In the 12 years since Amber Borotsik and Murray Utas first imagined a movement arts festival, something that “started small and local,” as Azimuth Theatre’s Kristi Hansen puts … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It started with a lack, and a need. “I needed it to be a festival that I would be excited to go to!” says the excited curator of Black Arts Matter (BAM!), a new  multidisciplinary celebration … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca OK, you’re at a gathering in Vancouver or Toronto, somewhere in Canada that isn’t Alberta. Inevitably there’s the moment when you get asked where you’re from.  The range of reactions? Pick one: the eye squint? the … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Forecast: Breezy. An adventuresome wind — full of diverse sounds, sights, cultural ideas, challenges — is set to blow through the winter theatre season again this week.  Yes, Chinook is on its way to becoming an … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12night.ca He’s back. Theatres (and audiences) take note.  If you saw Collin Doyle’s wonderful Let The Light Of Day Through, in Theatre Network’s top-drawer 2013 premiere production, you already know something important about the work of this award-winning … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you go out in the woods tonight…. It’s a strange form of civic enchantment. Every year about this time, the good burghers of Edmonton, thousands of them, find themselves irresistibly drawn to follow a trail … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca  “O my god! What’s he going to say next!?” It’s 2012 and Raoul Bhaneja and his actor wife Birgitte Solem are in New York watching an Off-Broadway audience watch a play. Everybody is tense, alert, engrossed: … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You can always tell when Shaun Johnston is in a theatre. Yes, there’s his beloved Chevy pick-up (c. 1990) outside the Varscona, a four-inch layer of snow on the cab. In a world of constant flux … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you worked at a nuclear bomb factory,” Clinton Carew asks  pleasantly, by way of conversation opener, “how would you feel?” This is the kind of question that could lead to “I’m just doing my job; … Continue reading →

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Between the death of one dream and the what-comes-next is the unmapped territory where Fortune Falls, the latest musical creation from Catalyst Theatre, finds its footing.  After all, as Jonathan Christenson muses one morning last week, … Continue reading →