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‘It’s all coming back to me now’: The 90s at the Mayfield, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s all coming back, it’s all coming back to me now.” True, Celine Dion wasn’t singing about a decade at the top of The 90s, the show now singing and dancing (and changing costumes and hair) … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 90s music, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, musical revues
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A test of comic timing and ingenuity: The 39 Steps launches Farren Timoteo’s artistic directorship at Teatro Live!, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It seems exactly right, inspired really, that Farren Timoteo should launch his Teatro Live! artistic directorship of the comedy theatre company with a show that turns a 1935 Hitchcock spy thriller into a manically high-speed, hilariously … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Hitchcock movies, John Buchan, spy thrillers, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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‘The perfectly imperfect holiday’: Vinyl Cafe The Musical premieres at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Vinyl Cafe The Musical, the new Canadian holiday musical premiering at the Citadel in a Daryl Cloran production, is a cool idea bravely built on a double challenge. On one hand it’s an homage to a … Continue reading
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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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