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Expanse Fest is back to celebrate the body in motion

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The 10-day movement arts festival that returns Thursday for an 19th annual edition starts with the body in motion. All bodies in motion. And then it expands. That’s Expanse, the nimble, elasticized (and well-named) festival of … Continue reading →

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Springboards, Workshop West’s new play festival, springs back

Posted on March 20, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca After its return last year for the first time in more than a decade, Springboards springs back this week. And with this edition of Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s signature new play festival, works-in-progress by some 19 … Continue reading →

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The dizzying optic of All The Little Animals I Have Eaten, a new Karen Hines satire at Shadow. A review

Posted on March 18, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You won’t have seen anything quite like All The Small Animals I Have Eaten, the play that’s now running in the Shadow Theatre season. And because it’s by Karen Hines, a brilliant original of a satirist, … Continue reading →

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The screwball elixir: high spirits and rom-com gold. Pride and Prejudice at the Citadel, a review

Posted on March 17, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Dust off the Regency, and what will you find? Fun fun fun, my friends.  It is a measure of the comic high spirits of the version of Pride and Prejudice currently cavorting its way up, down, … Continue reading →

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‘I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy’. Joni Mitchell: Songs of a Prairie Girl at Theatre Network, a review

Posted on March 12, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m not a weeper, I’m a snarler,” Joni Mitchell in old age tells us in the “theatrical collage” in her honour at Theatre Network. “I put the weeping in the songs…. I sing my sorrow, and … Continue reading →

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‘Musicians gone wild’: the Mayfield’s upcoming five-show season

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The air of creative nostalgia floats over the upcoming 2023-2024 season at the Mayfield Theatre announced by artistic director Van Wilmott Tuesday. The five-show line-up capitalizes on the strength, stylistic versatility, and expertise of the theatre’s … Continue reading →

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Joni Mitchell: Songs of a Prairie Girl, a ‘theatrical collage’ of a legendary artist, at Theatre Network

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We’re captive on the carousel of time/ We can’t return, we can only look/ Behind,  from where we came….” The Circle Game, Joni Mitchell, 1966 The show that opens Thursday on the Theatre Network mainstage is … Continue reading →

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From the mean streets of New Jersey, a jukebox musical with two dozen hits and a real story. Jersey Boys at the Citadel, a review

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The history of the jukebox musical is riddled with synthetic duds (like robbing a cash machine, and finding Monopoly money). The stand-outs that rise above are few and far between. Jersey Boys is one. Judging by … Continue reading →

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Getting the jump on time: Love Is For Poor People and The Exquisite Hour, a Lemoine double-bill at Teatro Live!

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “So, tonight we’re going to be remembering my glorious future….” declares the glamorous and worldly star ‘Her’ we meet in Love Is For Poor People. In the new Stewart Lemoine that premieres Friday as half of … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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