Category Archives: Previews

Get splashed by the new wave of artists: Nextfest is back Thursday

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “OMG, it’s the best part of the year!” — Stuart McDougall of In Arms Collective, creators of Nest Hold that thought. It’s the eve of the innovative arts festival that tosses the leading question “so, what’s … Continue reading →

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Psst, are you going to Brad’s party? Everyone We Know Will Be There

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey everybody, we’re invited to a party at Bradley Freeman’s house. He’s turning 17 and, yay, his parents are away somewhere, on a yacht. So he’s having people over. In Everyone We Know Will Be There: … Continue reading →

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O, to be a kid again: yes you can! The Kids’ Fest is back

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Imagine a world where a real live man unzips a suitcase — from the inside — and climbs out. Where a big-mouth wiseacre Dog breathes life into a gentle story about tree planting, one acorn at a … Continue reading →

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Consulting the fortune teller at Teatro: let’s ask Mark Meer

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was a pungent, not to say eye-watering, debut. Fifteen years ago, an actor/improviser of expandable comic talents got enlisted by Teatro La Quindicina for a new screwball comedy. The play? Vidalia, named for the sweet, … Continue reading →

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Teatro turns 35 with a new season of comedies, variously hued

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Oh, it’s beyond fun….”  — Dominica, in The Talking Turk Now, there’s a mantra for a Teatro season. In The Salon of the Talking Turk, the vintage Stewart Lemoine comedy that launches Teatro La Quindicina’s  2017 … Continue reading →

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Exit, pursued by a crow: Nicole Moeller’s new play asks tough questions

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Jasper has to save the princess.” When Nicole Moeller follows the thread of her new play back back back to its birthplace, that’s the line she heard in her head. Intriguing, yes, and not just because … Continue reading →

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Dungeons and Dragons, and other theatrical matters

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Nerd Alert: Saturday is Dungeons & Dragons night at Rapid Fire Theatre. Actually, every Saturday in May is Dungeons & Dragons night at Rapid Fire Theatre. Mark Meer, a veritable scholar of nerd-ly arcana, game theory … Continue reading →

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Two people, 6 guns, a lot of music: meet the young stars of Bonnie and Clyde

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We know them as historical celebrities, the bank robber stars of a Depression Era crime spree who made a spectacular exit from the world in a bullet-riddled Ford in 1934. But in the “two person six-gun” … Continue reading →

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But is it Art? three guys sitting around discussing a painting at Shadow Theatre

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Scene: Three guys in a room discussing a play about three guys in a room discussing a painting. The play under discussion is Art, the elegantly minimalist 1994 play by Parisian actor/playwright Yasmin Reza that’s the … Continue reading →

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The world of Jane Austen comes to the stage in Tom Wood’s new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With Sense and Sensibility, premiering on the Citadel MainStage Thursday in a Bob Baker production, playwright Tom Wood returns to the small-town Regency life into which he first tumbled, without Jane-ite baggage (even carry-on), in 2008. … Continue reading →

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