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The return of The Invisible: Catalyst’s hit spy musical is back, before it sets forth on tour

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Catalyst hit spy musical that opens Thursday at the Eva O. Howard Theatre returns to us Jonathan Christenson’s compelling all-female World War II espionage story, pried from history and imagined in a high-style, thrillingly theatrical … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Rock! Come From Away comes from away, back to the Jube

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Come From Away, the homegrown Canadian musical Broadway hit that travels the world on a jet stream of raves, major awards and sold-out runs, has come from away, again. It lands at Jube for the third … Continue reading →

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Reaching for magic: Lindsey Angell stars as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, launching the Citadel season

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “The world is violent and mercurial–it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love. …We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is … Continue reading →

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‘Saints and Rebels’: Workshop West announces a new season and a bold experiment in ticketing

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre turns 46 with a new season, two Canadian premieres, a Christmas show, and a bold invitation to the audience to “pay what you will” for every ticket to every show. “A pilot … Continue reading →

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Theatre Network at 50: an anniversary season and a story of Canadian theatre

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When a pair of horror clowns named Mump and Smoot take to the Roxy mainstage Oct. 8 for the first time in a decade, those interplanetary existentialists from Ummo will be launching Theatre Network’s 50th anniversary … Continue reading →

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Nashville Music City: the 50th anniversary season opener at the Mayfield does its storytelling in music. A review

Posted on September 8, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Nashville: Music City, which launches the 50th anniversary season at the Mayfield, begins and ends with Will the Circle Be Unbroken. It’s a thought that counts in any half-century birthday celebration in the world of theatre. … Continue reading →

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The curtain comes down on Find Your Fringe: more tickets sold, bigger artist payout.

Posted on August 25, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca After 11 days and nights of sunshine and stars (and also wind, smoke, rain both horizontal and vertical), the 43rd annual edition of our monster summer theatre bash is about to exit the stage tonight. “Our … Continue reading →

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The Fringe heads into its final weekend on a roll

Posted on August 23, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Find Your Fringe finds itself going into its final weekend on a roll. With good news to share. As of Friday morning the 216-show 43rd annual edition Edmonton’s 11 day-and-night summer theatre binge has sold 13,000 … Continue reading →

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Wait, there’s more Fringe to find: holdover shows in three Fringe venues

Posted on August 23, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Yes, Find Your Fringe, the 43rd annual edition of Edmonton’s big summer theatre bash, has its grand finale Sunday night. But if you haven’t quite succeeding in translating Find into Found!, a dozen of the most … Continue reading →

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How hard can it be? The real-world theatre of the absurd in 638 Ways To Kill Castro. A Fringe review

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

638 Ways To Kill Castro (Stage 3, Nancy Power Theatre at the Roxy) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As a source of absurdity in the world, there might actually be a rich, limitless, renewable repository in … reality. And this smart … Continue reading →

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