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Going, Going, Gone! a sparkly new Teatro screwball from Jana O’Connor, reviewed

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I can explain….” Just guessing, but those three words have sent more screwballs hurtling into comedy space than any other phrase in the lexicon, including “I’ll get the door.” Every time you hear them in Going, … Continue reading →

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A festive spirit prevails in E-Town tonight: 2 festivals and a screwball comedy set to open

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!” And then let up later, for heaven’s sake! It’s opening night this very evening for not one but two of Edmonton’s summer arts festivals. AND Teatro La Quindicina’s new screwball … Continue reading →

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Why stop now? A (newly expanded) theatre quiz for summer! More questions for you!

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Repair to your deck, clutch a mojito or an iced latte, and muse on the theatre season: What was the very first play that the Free Will Players produced in Hawrelak Park 29 summers ago? (a) … Continue reading →

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Losing yourself at Found, the festival of art in unexpected places

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Unexpected things happen when you take theatre out of theatres.  And we have a festival for that. The Found Festival returns Thursday to Old Strathcona for a sixth annual weekend of strange and surprising encounters, up … Continue reading →

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Once more unto the park dear friends: the 29th Freewill Shakespeare Festival draws nigh

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

  By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The love of summer Shakespeare runs deep in this town. One morning last week, the guest director at this year’s 29th annual Freewill Shakespeare Festival arrived for rehearsal at the Heritage Amphitheatre in Hawrelak Park. … Continue reading →

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For the love of the screwball: Going, Going, Gone! by comedy star Jana O’Connor at Teatro La Quindicina

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls@12thnight.ca The hero of Going, Going, Gone! Jana O’Connor’s new 30s-style screwball comedy, is an antiques dealer: “shy, uptight, uncommitted, afraid to make a wrong move in life” as the amused playwright describes him. Everything, in short, that … Continue reading →

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Prying opera out of its standard choices: Opera Nuova’s 2017 festival

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The performance venue is unusual. The stagecraft is unusual. And there’s this: I think we can safely call the Opera Nuova production of Eugene Onegin (opening Thursday at the west end Oasis Centre) a moving experience. … Continue reading →

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June is bustin’ out all over (two Carousels spin onto the stage this month)

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was never an easy musical — to cast, to act, to sing, to dance, to stage. And its dauntingly dark source, a 1909 play by the Hungarian Ferenc Molnár (Liliom), wasn’t exactly a natural for … Continue reading →

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Márquez meets Buster Keaton in Speechless, at Improvaganza

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Even by the globe-trotting, frontier-busting standards of the  international improv comedy world, Speechless is an unlikely creation. Two acrobatic circus-trained improvisers from Bogotá, Colombia and a female DJ from Winnipeg? Come on, the odds-against factor doesn’t … Continue reading →

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The fine art of the spontaneous: Improvaganza invites the world

Posted on June 10, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

    By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca True fact about the big wide world of improv comedy: it’s smaller than you think. It’s the eve of an international comedy festival that will demonstrate this, in ways you didn’t see coming. Rapid … Continue reading →

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