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What’s next? Nextfest at 30: three decades of celebrating emerging artists

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Where did the time go? Yes, Edmonton’s innovative, free-wheeling cross-pollinating multi-disciplinary festival of emerging artists, is hitting the big 3-OH, all grown up and still asking “What’s next?” It’s the eve of the 2025 anniversary edition, … Continue reading →

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Taking Wagner on a wild ride into the theatre: Andy Moro talks about designing Die Walküre at Edmonton Opera

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When we last saw them, a year ago in Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold on the Citadel’s Maclab stage, the gods were poised uneasily on the doom-laden threshold of their new home, Valhalla. The Rhine maidens were … 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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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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Getting the band back together. Cardiac Theatre is back! KaldrSaga: a new queer, old Norse cabaret, a preview

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Coming together to tell stories (and hear them). It’s what people do; it’s what people have always done; it’s what people will keep doing. Call that urge a tradition. Or a compulsion. At heart, Cardiac Theatre’s  … 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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The self in a bind: the RISER New Works Festival opens with Calla Wright’s Binding

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca New this year the RISER New Works Festival began its weekend of performances and workshops last night with a work-in-progress production of a challenging and playful one-human many-puppet show. Destined for Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival in … Continue reading →

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A horse named Horse, a jockey named Jacques: Kole Durnford’s Horseplay premieres at Workshop West

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the new Canadian play that premieres this week, on the gallop at Workshop West, we meet two best friends, as close as brothers, closer maybe. At heart these two love nothing better than hanging out … Continue reading →

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Hot theatre choices on Edmonton stages for your long weekend, a 12thnight survey

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You don’t lack for choices in Edmonton theatre as the long weekend approaches (Queen Victoria wouldn’t have it any other way). Consider some of your options: the premiere of a new Canadian play with a whimsical … Continue reading →

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