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Workshop West announces its upcoming 39th season

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the centre of Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s upcoming 39th season, announced Thursday, is the world premiere of a new play by Edmonton’s Beth Graham. In Pretty Goblins, by the multi-talented actor/playwright (The Gravitational Pull of … Continue reading →

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Having Patience: Opera Nuova festival opens with G&S

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Twenty lovesick maidens we….” Let romantic melancholy descend, my friends…. Patience may be a virtue, but it’s also a rarely performed 1881 musical satire/ operetta by the redoubtable team of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Their … Continue reading →

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I went to that bash at Brad’s: Everyone We Know Will Be There

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So, I was at this house party last night…. Brad was turning 17, and (thank god) his parents were out of town. People got high. Kids got trashed, in every sense of the word. Kids had … Continue reading →

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A Sterling year onstage: nominations for Edmonton’s theatre awards

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A musical comedy in which a town and its citizens are transformed by putting on a show — a notion that Edmonton can enthusiastically get behind — proved the top choice of jurors as the 30th … Continue reading →

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Get splashed by the new wave of artists: Nextfest is back Thursday

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “OMG, it’s the best part of the year!” — Stuart McDougall of In Arms Collective, creators of Nest Hold that thought. It’s the eve of the innovative arts festival that tosses the leading question “so, what’s … Continue reading →

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Psst, are you going to Brad’s party? Everyone We Know Will Be There

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey everybody, we’re invited to a party at Bradley Freeman’s house. He’s turning 17 and, yay, his parents are away somewhere, on a yacht. So he’s having people over. In Everyone We Know Will Be There: … Continue reading →

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O, to be a kid again: yes you can! The Kids’ Fest is back

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Imagine a world where a real live man unzips a suitcase — from the inside — and climbs out. Where a big-mouth wiseacre Dog breathes life into a gentle story about tree planting, one acorn at a … Continue reading →

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“What lies ahead?” asking the oracle in ’20s New York: a review of The Salon of the Talking Turk

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Will I be ever again be as happy as I was on the happiest day of my life so far? It’s a question that haunts all of us, on tiptoes at the hidden intersection between what’s … Continue reading →

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You’ll be binging at A MIdsummer Night’s Fringe

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca ‘Tis very midsummer madness!” Oops, wrong Shakespeare play. Right spirit. Our upcoming 36th annual Edmonton Fringe Festival, the oldest on the continent and still the biggest, has its signature theme. As announced Thursday, come August 17 … Continue reading →

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Consulting the fortune teller at Teatro: let’s ask Mark Meer

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was a pungent, not to say eye-watering, debut. Fifteen years ago, an actor/improviser of expandable comic talents got enlisted by Teatro La Quindicina for a new screwball comedy. The play? Vidalia, named for the sweet, … Continue reading →

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