Category Archives: Reviews

A vintage ’60s comedy done up deluxe(ly) at Teatro: The Odd Couple, a review

Posted on July 18, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The sound of an audience laughing out loud is something to be cherished — especially if it’s live, and you’re there among the people. One of the classics of old-school American comedy returns, in style, to the stage … Continue reading →

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In the pink: fizzy and fun Legally Blonde at the Citadel, a review

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Omigod you guys…. This doom-laden summer, the peppy pink Broadway musical singing and dancing across candy-coloured frames on the Citadel mainstage is your invitation to, like, get happier. Legally Blonde, which started out as a novel … Continue reading →

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Fun at camp: Freewill goes for the bold strokes in As You Like It. A review

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The first hint that Freewill Shakespeare’s As You Like It will go for the bold strokes is that Orlando (the magnetic Braydon Dowler-Coltman), in ball cap and sunglasses, roars up to the stage, to an overture … Continue reading →

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Rediscovering the self you’ve lost (with sun and sea): Shirley Valentine at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the Mayfield, you have a chance to see a vintage show get a new lease on life — just like its heroine.  Shirley Valentine, a 1986 solo play by the Liverpool playwright Willy Russell, is … Continue reading →

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The sound of Silence: a new opera at NUOVA Vocal Arts, a review

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Silence. Now there’s a puckish name for an opera. With Silence, NUOVA Vocal Arts has taken in hand an expansive, richly imagined 1999 play by the English playwright/screenwriter Moira Buffini. This new addition to the opera … Continue reading →

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Into the woods, a screwball talent search: On The Banks of the Nut at Teatro. A review

Posted on May 31, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In On The Banks Of the Nut, the vintage Stewart Lemoine screwball comedy getting an expertly acted revival at Teatro Live! (its first in 15 years) you’ll repeatedly hear six words bound to up the ante … Continue reading →

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‘You felt like home right from the get-go’. KaldrSaga, Cardiac’s ‘new queer, old Norse cabaret’. A review

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a very unusual storyteller’s cabaret happening in a handsome brick- and wood-lined room in the river valley. Norse mythology: where friends meet. And if the gods are overseeing the whole operation from their own spot … Continue reading →

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Making merry with murder: A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder at Grindstone, a review

Posted on May 25, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Murder most foul? Yes, we laughed and laughed. How can you not be tickled by an evening of inspired wickedness in the theatre where you find yourself charmed by a serial killer, and overcome with mirth … Continue reading →

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Backyard curtain time: Theatre Yes brings it home with The Doorstep Plays

Posted on May 20, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The ancient contract between The People and The Theatre gets an intriguing clause, and the personal touch, in the latest venture by the ever-adventurous Theatre Yes.  With The Doorstep Plays, they bring the theatre to you … Continue reading →

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Horseplay, an irresistible new play about a bond beyond the traces, at Workshop West. A review

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a bright buoyant sparkle to Horseplay, the funny, dreamy, heart-breaker of a season-ender at Workshop West. It’s a new play, about things like friendship and ambition, success and sacrifice, by a young theatre artist whose … Continue reading →

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