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‘I’m starting with the man in the mirror’: MJ moonwalks the Jube stage, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca MJ, the touring Broadway bio-musical that has arrived on the Jube stage, is a curiosity in every way. Like its star, and subject, Michael Jackson, arguably the 20th century’s greatest and most influential entertainer, a singer/dancer … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Michael Jackson, MJ, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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Opening the doors into the past: Ecos, a multi-generational dance/theatre piece from Common Ground. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening scene of Ecos, a woman arrives onstage to build, piece by piece, an altar of tiny objects — bottles, a wine glass, flowers, a little cake, picture frames, salt, a dead plant.… A funeral … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Diaspora Diaries Collective, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Mile Zero Dance
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How tough do you have to be? Surviving trauma: Tough Guy gets a visceral premiere production, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Tough Guy, an exhilarating new play by Hayley Moorhouse, a queer up-and-coming filmmaker tries to justify turning their camera on their friends, survivors of a shooting in queer nightclub mere days before, and reeling from … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Persistent Myth Productions
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An activist crime caper? Nicole Moeller’s Wildcat at Workshop West, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Timeliness? Irony? The world provides, and sometimes theatre just nails it. There’s something downright uncanny about the arrival onstage of Wildcat in a week that will live in infamy in Alberta labour history. Workers’ rights, injustice, resistance … Continue reading
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‘A life to live, a death confronted’: Billy Bishop Goes To War, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Frequent flyers might think of the Toronto Island airport before the man. But the much-loved two-hander musical that Edmonton Repertory Theatre has chosen for its inaugural season returns to us another frequent flyer, a medal-bedecked World … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Biederman Theatre, Billy Bishop, Canadian World War I history, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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Re-imagining your inheritance: Morningside Road, a beautiful new Canadian Celtic musical, at Shadow
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One of the haunting songs in Morningside Road, the “new Canadian Celtic musical” that blows open the Shadow Theatre season, wonders about the remarkable way the past is never black-and-white in memory. How does it get … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Hilarity and horror: ghost stories from the dark vault of our history, improvised. Ha-Ha-Haunting returns to Rapid Fire
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Embrace your ghosts, Edmonton. This is the season when the frontier between the living and the dead is at its flimsiest, and spirits are raving (and lining up for artisan beer at the bar. And Rapid … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Exchange Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre
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The reluctant activist who loves her kid: The Pink Unicorn opens the 50th birthday season at Northern Light, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the solo play that returns to Northern Light Theatre after a decade to launch the company’s 50th anniversary season, we meet a woman whose alignment with her world — and the next one too — … Continue reading
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Quality time with the older generation: the unforced charm of Banana Musik, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The homey smell of cooking hangs over the unusually hospitable show, developed at the Found Festival, that’s currently running at the Backstage Theatre. There’s dinner and there’s theatre in Banana Musik, launching Common Ground Arts Society’s … Continue reading
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