Category Archives: Previews

A two-festival week in Edmonton theatre: SOUND OFF and SkirtsAfire

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz NIcholls, 12thnight.ca We know how to get festive in this theatre town. It’s a two-festival week in Edmonton. SOUND OFF, the influential six-day national festival of Deaf theatre with homegrown origins, returns to its birthplace with a ninth … Continue reading →

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Dance Nation at SkirtsAfire 2025: artistic producer Amanda Goldberg talks about her festival debut

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The SkirtsAfire Festival returns this week for a 13th annual edition (with theatrical skirts of every length, style, and fit). And on the mainstage of this resourceful multi-disciplinary celebration of female artists, is a play that … Continue reading →

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An ogre and a donkey hit the road: Shrek The Musical at NUOVA. Meet two of the stars.

Posted on February 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They say that you never really know someone till you travel (or, eek, go camping) with them. A grouchy green ogre and a sassy big-mouth donkey, travelling companions in the Broadway musical that opens Wednesday at … Continue reading →

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Dreamin’ and rockin’. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The ’70s Musical at the Citadel

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hanging with Shakespeare at the Citadel…. Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s lunchtime. And director Daryl Cloran, along with Theseus, Hippolyta, a bunch of rustic artisans, and Titania, Oberon, Puck and that fairyland Midsummer Night’s … Continue reading →

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Teatro Live introduces a younger generation of stars (and Hungarian street snacks) in The Noon Witch. Meet Eli Yaschuk.

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thirty years ago, Teatro La Quindicina audiences caught sight of a highly idiosyncratic witch who preferred sunlight to night time, and lured men to their watery death with caloric fatty snacks so they sink. Playwright Stewart … Continue reading →

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A big week at the Mayfield: The Full Monty, a new artistic director, a new season

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Kick off your Sunday shoes. It’s a big week at the Mayfield. For one thing, the theatre’s 50th anniversary season continues with a Broadway musical hit, blue of collar, warm of heart. The Full Monty, opening … Continue reading →

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Straddling cultures on an adventure in Chinatown: Barbara Mah directs King of the Yees at Walterdale

Posted on February 4, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When director Barbara Mah discovered King of the Yees, she knew she’d found a soul-mate of a play. An alignment of the stars perhaps? The Walterdale community theatre production that opens Wednesday is the result of … Continue reading →

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What makes the theatre magical? An Oak Tree at Theatre Yes, a preview

Posted on January 31, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is nothing predictable, run-of-the-mill (or run-of-deMille for that matter) about the Theatre Yes production that opens a short run Wednesday. Just for starters, An Oak Tree happens in a venue where you’ve probably never seen … Continue reading →

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‘A story lives forever’: Meet Amena Shehab, whose new epic play After The Trojan Women premieres at Common Ground

Posted on January 30, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is a certain inevitability that theatre artist Amena Shehab would find inspiration from Greek tragedy in creating (with Joanna Blundell) her first and “very personal” play. After The Trojan Women premieres Saturday at the Backstage … Continue reading →

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The Citadel announces their upcoming 60th anniversary season

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton’s largest playhouse, which entered the scene 60 years ago, celebrates this anniversary — and an expanding repertoire of local, national, and international connections — in the 2025-2026 season unveiled Monday. At the centre of the … Continue reading →

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