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‘The perfectly imperfect holiday’: Vinyl Cafe The Musical premieres at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Vinyl Cafe The Musical, the new Canadian holiday musical premiering at the Citadel in a Daryl Cloran production, is a cool idea bravely built on a double challenge. On one hand it’s an homage to a … Continue reading
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‘I’m starting with the man in the mirror’: MJ moonwalks the Jube stage, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca MJ, the touring Broadway bio-musical that has arrived on the Jube stage, is a curiosity in every way. Like its star, and subject, Michael Jackson, arguably the 20th century’s greatest and most influential entertainer, a singer/dancer … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Michael Jackson, MJ, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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Ray: a little tribute to a great theatre lover
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With the passing of Ray Christenson this month, at 93, Edmonton theatre and its community of artists have lost someone essential to what they do, how they create — and, especially, why. The live theatre isn’t … Continue reading
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A new (and all-Canadian) season at L’UniThéâtre launches with Le Palier
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the play that launches the new, all-Canadian season tonight at L’UniThéâtre, Alberta’s only professional francophone theatre company, an unlikely friendship blossoms, fast, in an unlikely place. As director Steve Jodoin explains, Le Palier opens with … Continue reading
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Vinyl Cafe: The Musical. Stuart McLean’s beloved characters come to life in the Citadel’s new holiday musical, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the new Canadian holiday musical that premieres next week at the Citadel, characters we know well do something they’ve never done before. They step out of the radio and off the page — and, for … Continue reading
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Opening the doors into the past: Ecos, a multi-generational dance/theatre piece from Common Ground. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening scene of Ecos, a woman arrives onstage to build, piece by piece, an altar of tiny objects — bottles, a wine glass, flowers, a little cake, picture frames, salt, a dead plant.… A funeral … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Diaspora Diaries Collective, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Mile Zero Dance
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How tough do you have to be? Surviving trauma: Tough Guy gets a visceral premiere production, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Tough Guy, an exhilarating new play by Hayley Moorhouse, a queer up-and-coming filmmaker tries to justify turning their camera on their friends, survivors of a shooting in queer nightclub mere days before, and reeling from … Continue reading
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An activist crime caper? Nicole Moeller’s Wildcat at Workshop West, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Timeliness? Irony? The world provides, and sometimes theatre just nails it. There’s something downright uncanny about the arrival onstage of Wildcat in a week that will live in infamy in Alberta labour history. Workers’ rights, injustice, resistance … Continue reading
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‘A life to live, a death confronted’: Billy Bishop Goes To War, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Frequent flyers might think of the Toronto Island airport before the man. But the much-loved two-hander musical that Edmonton Repertory Theatre has chosen for its inaugural season returns to us another frequent flyer, a medal-bedecked World … Continue reading
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