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The rise of RISER: a new works festival from Common Ground
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca RISER has risen. Again, and in a new, expanded form. Edmonton, where theatre is the leading arts industry, was always the right place for the visionary national initiative — launched by Toronto’s Why Not Theatre — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Found Festival, RISER Edmonton, SkirtsaFire Festival, Theatre Yes, Why Not Theatre
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Shadow Theatre announces a four-show upcoming season, launched by a new Canadian musical
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre’s upcoming four-production 32nd season will launch with the premiere of a much-anticipated new Canadian musical. In Morningside Road, by the remarkably versatile Edmonton artists Mhairi Berg (book) and Simon Abbott (music), a girl connects … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2025-2026 season, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Lots to see on Edmonton stages this week, a small survey of the landscape
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, Edmonton. You have choices for your evenings out at the theatre this week: two Canadian comedies, a wicked Brit satire, a multi-disciplinary arts festival, a stage adaptation of a much-loved novel, a prairie love story, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jabulani Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Prairie Strange Productions, Punctuate! Theatre, Ribbon Rouge Foundation, Shadow Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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Crossing the great rural-urban prairie frontier: AJ Hrooshkin’s Alphabet Line, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There can be nothing quite like the vast isolating distances of the prairies for locating a play about disconnection — between rural and urban, farm and city, booking learning and blue-collar life experience. And the playwright … Continue reading
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The high price of a dream home: Trevor Schmidt talks about the dark satire Radiant Vermin, at Northern Light
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Really shocking,” says Trevor Schmidt cheerfully of the wicked satire that opens Friday as the finale of Northern Light Theatre’s ‘Making A Monster’ season. “And really funny.” He compares the appealing, perky young couple we … Continue reading
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A 10-year Marv n’ Berry retrospective at the Varscona
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Where do hit sketch comedy troupes come from anyhow? Ten years ago, the once-upon-a time of the Marv n’ Berry story, five improvisers found themselves hanging out, onstage and off-, at the Bonfire Festival. They were … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bonfire Festival, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton sketch comedy, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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A family, a living room, a dog, and, yes, conflict! Colleen Murphy’s new play Jupiter premieres at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The last time a Colleen Murphy play was onstage in this town, a Theatre Network production five years ago, the gore flew so enthusiastically that the front rows of the audience were equipped with splatter shields … Continue reading
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Bodies in motion: Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival is back with a 20th anniversary edition
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Its birth, 20 years ago, was dance. And gradually, Azimuth Theatre’s nimble, well-named Expanse Festival, returning Friday for an anniversary edition, has expanded the frontiers and expectations of dance to embrace “movement arts” and “body-based performance.” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2025
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Springboards has sprung: the return of Workshop West’s signature new play festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A rush of new Canadian plays is happening this week in this theatre town. And the timing couldn’t be better for a made-in-Canada festival. With the return Tuesday of Springboards, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s signature new … Continue reading
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