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The rats are back in a new show! Rat Academy 2: Gnaw and Order at Nextfest, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a way to have yourself an existential crisis (or at least an emotional breakdown): be a rat, in Alberta. When we last met the stars of Rat Academy, a pair of rats on the lam … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Batrabbit Collective, clown shows, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2025, Nextfest Arts Company, Theatre Network
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An intriguing week in Edmonton theatre: go see a show
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s an intriguing week in Edmonton theatre. An influential festival that’s all about getting splashed by the next wave. Not one but two productions, from two vastly different companies, that tap into the rich and weird … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ArtsHub Ortona, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2025, Rising Sun Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network
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What’s next? Nextfest at 30: three decades of celebrating emerging artists
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2025, Nextfest Arts Co., Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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Taking Wagner on a wild ride into the theatre: Andy Moro talks about designing Die Walküre at Edmonton Opera
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Die Walküre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Richard Wagner, Ring Cycle
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Into the woods, a screwball talent search: On The Banks of the Nut at Teatro. A review
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, screwball comedy, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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Making merry with murder: A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder at Grindstone, a review
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Orange Hall
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Getting the band back together. Cardiac Theatre is back! KaldrSaga: a new queer, old Norse cabaret, a preview
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Queer Calendar Project, ArtsHub Ortona, Cardiac Theatre, Common Ground Arts, Edmonton theatre
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Backyard curtain time: Theatre Yes brings it home with The Doorstep Plays
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, site-specific theatre, Theatre Yes
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Horseplay, an irresistible new play about a bond beyond the traces, at Workshop West. A review
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The self in a bind: the RISER New Works Festival opens with Calla Wright’s Binding
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, RISER Edmonton
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