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And now for something completely different: Edmonton artists in a vintage spiegeltent at K-Days
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Magic, as magician Billy Kidd tells us, lives in surprises, in the “not knowing what’s going to happen next.” Now, here’s something unexpected (in a good way). Of all the things you might conceivably be doing … Continue reading
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Tagged Cristal Palace spiegeltent, Edmonton theatre, Explore Edmonton, EXPO Centre, Firefly Theatre and Circus, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Grindstone Theatre, K-Days
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You can be fabulous right here: Everybody Goes To Mitzi’s at Teatro, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca To see the Teatro Live! revival of Everybody Goes To Mitzi’s at the Varscona is to be reminded of something special about this place. In Edmonton you make your own fun. OK, maybe you have to … Continue reading
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The Genie and the spirit of showbiz: Disney’s Aladdin at the Jube, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Come for the hummus, stay for the floor show,” advises the outsized sprite in Arabian Nights, the opening number of Disney’s Aladdin. He pretty much nails the touring Broadway family musical that’s arrived at the Jube … Continue reading
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Improv comes to the Mayfield for the first time, and it’s the best there is: Gordon’s Big Bald Head in Clusterflick
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something historic, and riotously funny, is happening at the Mayfield. For the first time ever at this adventurous dinner theatre, a blockbuster movie is premiering on the Mayfield stage. In itself this pretty much nails high-grade … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Gordon's Big Bald Head, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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Wrapping the self in fantasy: Strange/Familiar, a new ‘autofictional’ play at the Gateway
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a telling moment in Strange/Familiar, a new play by Liam Monaghan, we see the protagonist open a suitcase. Liam, who shares a name with the playwright in this “autofictional play,” seems to have packed light: … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Theatre Outré, U of A drama department
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Sunday in the park with Greeks: Euripides’ Helen from Trunk Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Sometimes you just have to marvel at the adventurous chutzpah of Edmonton indie theatre. You just don’t expect to find yourself in a park on a sunny Sunday afternoon sitting in a lawn chair watching a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Coronation Park, Edmonton theatre, Euripides, Greek theatre, Irish theatre, Queen Elizabeth Planetarium, Trunk Theatre
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A social media thriller, in a digital world that works on escalation: Subscribe or Like at Workshop West, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Sometimes I wonder what’s real,” says Rachel, one half of the millennial couple in Subscribe Or Like. That invasive ambiguity digs an ever-deeper channel right through a relationship in this very tense, fascinating new play by … Continue reading
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‘Music without ego’: background music vs silence, a fierce battle in Listen Listen, a new Teatro comedy. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is a quixotic premise that underscores Listen Listen, the new Elyne Quan comedy premiering in the Teatro Live season in a Belinda Cornish production. And it will make you smile. In a mall in 1986, … Continue reading
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The fascinating contradictions of Anahita’s Republic, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Anahita’s Republic is a thriller set in a mysterious world of concealed faces and shadows, secret agents, secret police, hidden agendas. That world is contemporary Iran. The playwriting duo of Hengameh E. Rice, one half Iranian … Continue reading
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