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On the dark side of the fine art of storytelling: The Pillowman at Theatre Yes, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a hooded figure, head bowed, waiting for us in a grim basement downtown. It’s a mysterious place we’ve never been before, and, ominously, it’s lined with plastic. Uh-oh. With Martin McDonagh’s 2003 The Pillowman, Theatre … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Martin McDonagh, Pendennis Building, Theatre Yes
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On the outside looking in: Candy & The Beast, a new Trevor Schmidt thriller at Northern Light Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a dark and threatening world, a miasma of secret dangers and fear, in which we find ourselves in Candy & The Beast, a new and multi-faceted mystery thriller by (and directed by) Trevor Schmidt premiering … Continue reading
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The gift of belief: unmissable Wonderful Joe, The Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something wonderful, and wonder-filled, happened last night at Theatre Network. We found ourselves on Eileen Street, in a miniature urban neighbourhood on the wrong side of the tracks. Where the homeless are home, and the misfits … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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Humanizing a hero in a mysterious encounter: The Mountaintop at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A road-weary man with a cough and holes in his socks arrives back in an undistinguished Memphis motel on a stormy night in April 1968, dying for a cigarette and checking for hidden microphones before he … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Martin Luther King, Shadow Theatre
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The long weekend in a theatre town
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What happens on a long weekend in a theatre town? For starters, a new indie puppet musical and a musical theatre classic, an insightful and captivating comedy about teenage girls, a musical revue, a new play … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2024, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, So.Glad Arts, Springboards New Play Festival, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Back-combing the ’60s: Hairspray at the Jube, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something has happened to the light-hold flexible Hairspray we’ve always known. It’s gone Ultra-Clutch. In a world of chronic downsizing — of prospects, budgets, the polar ice cap … — there’s something reassuring, in theory, about … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada touring, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Hairspray, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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An evening in the park with Sondheim and up-and-comers at MacEwan, and more
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Last night in a packed theatre I got a chance to see the only musical in the repertoire where the rhyme of “rapturous” and “capture us” floats through the air. Both apply to the experience of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Indigenous storytelling, MacEwan University theatre arts
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Building a robot and making friends: fresh and funny Robot Girls premieres at Shadow Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s fresh. It’s funny. Its sharp-eyed insights into the fraught high-stress lives of junior high teenage girls are blended into fast-acting chemistry in Trevor Schmidt’s winsome, hilarious, often touching, new comedy Robot Girls. It’s a tricky … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Trevor Schmidt, Varscona Theatre
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A glorious score that’s already in your brain: The Sound of Music at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Sound of Music, now delighting audiences at the Citadel, is at the top of a tiny list of resistance-is-futile musicals whose mere titles dig into the tune retention part of the brain and won’t let … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Sound of Music
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Life lived precariously, on land and sea: some thoughts on Mermaid Legs at this year’s SkirtsAfire Fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the very last moment on the weekend I finally got the chance to see Mermaid Legs, the theatrical centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival. And there was magic to it. Not only was Sunday the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beth Graham, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Skirts AFire Festival
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