Category Archives: Previews

Bear Grease: an Indigenous makeover for the classic musical, at the Citadel

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Call it cosmic inevitability if you will. Or maybe an irresistibly cool idea whose time is overdue. But some shows can’t not be born. Bear Grease, the hit Indigenous makeover of that classic 1972 musical that … Continue reading →

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Let’s do the Time Warp again: on being Dr Frank-N-Furter in Grindstone’s cult classic season opener

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s time warp time. Picture this: a little kid in the single-digit age bracket, with Halloween insomnia, sneaks downstairs way past his bedtime and turns on the TV. He flips through the channels; he stumbles on … Continue reading →

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Exploring the Great Beyond: ‘Mump and Smoot in Exit’ premieres at Theatre Network

Posted on October 3, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It took them a while to get back here with a show. A decade to be precise. But there was something entirely natural about finding Mump and Smoot and their director Karen Hines last week in … Continue reading →

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The return of The Invisible: Catalyst’s hit spy musical is back, before it sets forth on tour

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Catalyst hit spy musical that opens Thursday at the Eva O. Howard Theatre returns to us Jonathan Christenson’s compelling all-female World War II espionage story, pried from history and imagined in a high-style, thrillingly theatrical … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Rock! Come From Away comes from away, back to the Jube

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Come From Away, the homegrown Canadian musical Broadway hit that travels the world on a jet stream of raves, major awards and sold-out runs, has come from away, again. It lands at Jube for the third … Continue reading →

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Reaching for magic: Lindsey Angell stars as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, launching the Citadel season

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “The world is violent and mercurial–it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love. …We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is … Continue reading →

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‘Saints and Rebels’: Workshop West announces a new season and a bold experiment in ticketing

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre turns 46 with a new season, two Canadian premieres, a Christmas show, and a bold invitation to the audience to “pay what you will” for every ticket to every show. “A pilot … Continue reading →

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Theatre Network at 50: an anniversary season and a story of Canadian theatre

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When a pair of horror clowns named Mump and Smoot take to the Roxy mainstage Oct. 8 for the first time in a decade, those interplanetary existentialists from Ummo will be launching Theatre Network’s 50th anniversary … Continue reading →

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Edmonton has play dates: here’s a dozen intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s time to play. After a year of continuing struggle, with rising production costs and dwindling funding, theatre companies and artists are finding their way back to stages large and small. Our mighty summer Fringe, as … Continue reading →

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Edmonton’s biggest opening night: the Fringe starts tonight

Posted on August 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Tonight’s the night!  Edmonton’s biggest opening night. Do not be dismayed, or paralyzed, by the 216-show 38-venue dimensions of the 43rd annual incarnation of our big summer theatre bash. Gordon’s Big Bald Head, the stunningly expert … Continue reading →

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