Category Archives: Reviews

Funny, amiable, and hey, there’s small-town curling: Hurry Hard at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on June 28, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Curling may have snazzy international tentacles, and Olympics cred and all that. But there’s something quintessentially small town, domesticated, and Canuck, about curling. The camaraderie, the jokey squabbling, the tenacious feuding, the intense competitive spirit (not … Continue reading →

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Taking the leap into the timeless (with tartan): Brigadoon at NUOVA Vocal Arts, a review

Posted on June 25, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If it takes a village to stage any Golden Age Broadway musical, consider the case of Kim Mattice Wanat’s production of Lerner and Loewe’s 1947 Brigadoon, the finale of this year’s NUOVA Vocal Arts Festival. The … Continue reading →

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Once more unto the park! Much Ado About Nothing celebrates the homecoming of the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, a review

Posted on June 21, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A sweet, long-awaited reunion is happening in Hawrelak Park. And you should be there to feel the vibrations. It’s been a hard, uphill road back, but the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, a ‘merry wanderer’ (as a sprite … Continue reading →

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A Michelin star performance by Andrew MacDonald-Smith in Fully Committed, at Teatro Live!, a review

Posted on June 7, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A phone starts ringing before our unemployed actor hero even arrives at his day job for a shift in the underworld — at the reservation desk hidden in the nether regions of the hottest, hippest Manhattan … Continue reading →

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The guilty pleasures of Mamma Mia! Broadway Across Canada at the Jube, a review

Posted on May 14, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Mamma Mia! is one of those shows that’s made to be called a guilty pleasure. There’s no use having a guilty pleasure that’s decaf instead of double full-fat cinnamon dolce latte with a shot and sprinkles. And … Continue reading →

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What? This wine is made in England? Autumn at Shadow Theatre, a review

Posted on May 11, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The co-stars of Autumn, the season finale at Shadow Theatre, have their work cut out for them. Resourceful theatre veterans Cathy Derkach and Karen Johnson Diamond have charisma, comic chops, and fortitude. All will be put … Continue reading →

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How high is the price tag attached to working in the arts? Everyone Is Doing Fine at Workshop West, a review

Posted on May 10, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Everyone Is Doing Fine, the season finale at Workshop West, Calgary-based playwright James Odin Wade steps boldly up to a conundrum that leaves the arts and its practitioners stuck between a rock and a hard … Continue reading →

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Words, glorious words: Cyrano de Bergerac, a captivating new adaptation at the Citadel. A review.

Posted on May 9, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A wave, a tide, a torrent, a veritable deluge of poetry of every kind comes at you, in glorious profusion, from the Citadel mainstage in a wonderful new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac by Jessy Ardern. … Continue reading →

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And the rest is silence: a study of loneliness in Request Programme at Northern Light, a review

Posted on May 3, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You won’t see a more devastating study of chronic loneliness than the solo play that’s the finale of Northern Light Theatre’s 50th anniversary season. The woman we meet in Request Programme doesn’t explain herself. For one … Continue reading →

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Kicking off your Sunday shoes: Footloose at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on April 19, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Strange how it happens…. You’re all set to kick off your Sunday shoes for some rockin’ showbiz nostalgia, a young rebel with a quaint 40-year-old cause, and a truly contagious theme song. And then, suddenly, you’re … Continue reading →

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