Category Archives: Reviews

A thrilling and beautiful musical testimonial to what art and artists are all about: Hadestown at the Jube, a review

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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The freaky tangle of connections in the digital world: Mob, the thriller that opens the Workshop West season. A review

Posted on November 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Audrey II is coming for you: Little Shop of Horrors at the Citadel, a review

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Finding harmony: stories from inside the choir. Crescendo! at Shadow Theatre, a review

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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The dark glitter of a dream cruise on the River Styx: Pochsy IV. A new Karen Hines satire at Theatre Network. A review

Posted on October 20, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s an unnerving glitter and queasy hilarity to the satire that launches the season at Theatre Network. “I dreamed you, I manifested you,” proposes the figure who appears before us — a tarnished angel? a wicked … Continue reading →

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Fun (really!) with Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing, an inspired Theatre Yes 2-night production

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Well, THAT was fun!. A word that is only rarely (I need hardly remind you) applied to productions of Hamlet. The first night of The Play’s The Thing, Theatre Yes’s two-night production of Shakespeare’s longest, most … Continue reading →

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A matter of death (and life): a quirky rom-com en route to the Underworld: A Phoenix Too Frequent at Northern Light, a review

Posted on October 7, 2023 by Liz Nicholls
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The delectable fun of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Citadel, a review

Posted on September 29, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a glum age where the things to be serious about are piling up by the second, there is something inspirational about launching a season with a comedy whose airy architecture is built, rock solid, on … Continue reading →

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A beautiful day in the neighbourhood: Laurel Canyon and the ‘California Sound’ in Rock The Canyon at the Mayfield

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When the poet Joni Mitchell referred in song to “pouring music down the canyon,” the image attaches its mythical reverb to a real locale in a real city — and a real, remarkably expansive five-year period … Continue reading →

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O for a muse of ice! Kenneth Brown explores the bond between art, life, and puck in Life After Life After Hockey, a Fringe review

Posted on August 25, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

Life After Life After Hockey (Stage 13, La Cité francophone) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “O for a muse of fire!” as Rink Rat Brown did not say under a prairie winter night sky in Life After Hockey. No, as Rink … Continue reading →

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