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A knock-out production of The Royale at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s got a powerful, bruising story to tell, lifted from early 20th century history, where boxing, celebrity and racial hatred in America deliver a maximum sucker punch. But it’s the theatrical right hook on which that … Continue reading
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Tagged boxing history, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jack John, Jack Johnson
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Now we know what we’ve been missing: fun. Ronnie Burkett’s Daisy Theatre is back at Theatre Network with Little Willy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was one of those nights out in the theatre that make you know what you’ve been missing. Fun. Surprise. A feeling you’d have to call wonder — when you wake up the next morning and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Ronnie Burkett, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, The Daisy Theatre, the F!*#@$G Festival, Theatre Network
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The feel-anxious comedy of First Date, at the Mayfield. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Are you ever gonna find The One?” wonders the rousing opening number of First Date, the funny, sweetly unassuming little romantic comedy musical that opened Friday at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre. A chorus tots up rather … Continue reading
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Collecting souls: where’s the job satisfaction? After Faust, the opening show in RISER Edmonton’s 2023 series. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It sounds like an OK gig. And you can argue that aspirational clients, like Dr. Faustus, get what they deserve when they sign away their souls for unlimited knowledge, power, worldly pleasure, and the 24/7 services … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Invisible Practice, RISER Edmonton
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Unsung: Tales From The Front Line, living portraits of the health care people who risked everything to keep us safe. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What just happened here? That leading question is the raison d’être of the “performance installation” currently running at Workshop West. In the ongoing COVID pandemic, frontline healthcare workers have risked everything to do their jobs keeping … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta health care, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Deaf, and an expert in the absurdities of the world: Chris Dodd’s Deafy at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Deafy, currently running in the Citadel’s Rice Theatre, we meet a man with a fine-tuned sense of the absurdities of the world. In his wry way he’s an expert in negotiating obstacles both large and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Follow the Signs Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival
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Enough, the aerial view of a mysterious dread, at Northern Light. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I am the image of escape,” says one of the two globe-trotting flight attendant characters in Enough, getting its Canadian premiere in the Northern Light Theatre season. There they are, trim and calm and smiling, 30,000 … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Stef Smith, Traverse Theatre
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Fresh Hell: in Conni Massing’s new play an unusual case of female bonding. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You’ll never guess who Dorothy Parker ran into the other day. On a stage. In Edmonton. Of all the historical figures that you might reasonably expect the New York wit, poet, satirist to conjure at … Continue reading
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A coming-of-age thriller: Freaky Green Eyes at Fringe Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening image of Freaky Green Eyes is a girl poised on a diving board, about to take the plunge. In Emma Houghton’s solo show, an artful stage adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s 2003 powerfully dark … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Joyce Carol Oates, Punctuate! Theatre
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Far From The Home I Love: a Fiddler on the Roof for our time. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening moments of the grand touring production of Fiddler on the Roof that’s arrived at the Jube, a solitary man in a modern red parka walks onto the stage under a weathered train station … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Fiddler on the Roof, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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