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And then Liza Minnelli showed up: The Blank Who Stole Christmas at Rapid Fire, a little review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Of all the improbabilities attached to the festive season — home invasion by a fat guy via chimney, that stratospheric high note in O Holy Night, etc. — here’s a real corker. Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton’s … Continue reading
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Opening the door to human connection: thoughts on this year’s A Christmas Carol at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The grand tradition of the Citadel’s A Christmas Carol (without which the “hap-happiest season of all” in these parts can’t really get off the ground), is up and running. And with it, in this the fifth … Continue reading
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Mirror mirror on the wall … the holiday panto is back. Snow White at the Capitol Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Hello friends!” an extrovert fairy calls out to us, every time she arrives onstage. And every time we holler back, in unison as coached, “Best Fairy Ever!” Now there’s all-ages audience rapport for you. Yup, the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Christmas pantos, Edmonton Christmas Market, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Fred Penner
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‘Concert and vacation’: Teatro season-opener Far Away and Long A-Gogo! A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Far Away And Long A-Gogo, the “concert and vacation” that launches the new Teatro Live season starts, quite hilariously, in the kind of impasse that showbiz is designed to trounce. It’s a medley, slowed to lugubrious … Continue reading
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You know you’re Canadian if … Canada Rocks: The Reboot, at the Mayfield. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know you’re Canadian if … You’re prepared to crank up the barbecue in December. You make your kids’ Halloween costumes roomy enough to fit over a snowsuit. You know that double-double doesn’t just mean toil … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian hockey, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, musical revues
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A thrilling and beautiful musical testimonial to what art and artists are all about: Hadestown at the Jube, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The musical/ folk opera that returns to Edmonton in the thrilling touring Broadway production onstage at the Jube this week will take you to Hell and back. And all along that eerie, high-stakes route through darkness, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anaïs Mitchell, Broadway Across Canada, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Orpheus and Eurydice
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The freaky tangle of connections in the digital world: Mob, the thriller that opens the Workshop West season. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening moments of Mob nail you to your seat, and there’s no getting relaxed after that in the Quebec thriller that is Workshop West’s genuinely disturbing season opener. A woman (Kristin Johnston), mysteriously traumatized, drives … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catherine-Anne Toupin, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Quebec theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Audrey II is coming for you: Little Shop of Horrors at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a musical that makes a case for smart people taking a dumb movie in hand and re-potting it — a strategy that’s backfired elsewhere with depressing regularity this century — it’s got … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Arts Club Theatre Company, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Little Shop of Horrors
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Finding harmony: stories from inside the choir. Crescendo! at Shadow Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What exactly is it about singing, and especially singing with other people, that lures people into choirs to make music together? That’s the question at the heart of Sandy Paddick’s Crescendo!. And not only is it … Continue reading
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