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The thrill of the unpredictable: Improvaganza is back at Rapid Fire Theatre

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The only truly predictable thing about Improvaganza, besides laughter (yours), is that it returns, every June — with an international array of improv talent who are all about spontaneity. I’m not making this up. Making stuff … Continue reading →

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Anthem of Life: a Zulu epic comes to the stage at Theatre Prospero to launch a trilogy

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A swirling, full-blooded Zulu epic comes to the stage next week when Tololwa Mollel’s Anthem of Life premieres in a Theatre Prospero production, part 1 of a planned trilogy. The ideas, the lush images, the stories, … Continue reading →

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The year in Edmonton theatre: the 2023-24 Sterling Award nominations

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A “surreal theatre dance fantasia” that premiered as the centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival proved decisively the top choice of jurors as the 35th annual Sterling Awards nominations were announced Thursday at the Westbury Theatre. … Continue reading →

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The slow unstoppable spread of a rumour: Jezec Sanders’ Where Foxes Lie at Nextfest

Posted on June 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a very Nextfest sort of question: “What is something I have yet to try my hand at?” Jezec Sanders, who evidently has never seen a comfort zone he didn’t want to exit (stage left), has … Continue reading →

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‘An ode to my community’: Ms. Pat’s Kitchen at Nextfest. Meet actor/playwright Jameela McNeil

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you saw Jameela McNeil’s blistering performance as the sister of an ambitious Black boxer in The Royale last season at the Citadel, you already known something about the intensity and focus of this young theatre … Continue reading →

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A play and a playwright with blue-chip hockey credentials: Your Heart Gushes Lavender at Nextfest 2024

Posted on June 2, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In theatre we don’t get a lot of chances to meet people from the world that actor/ playwright Tori Kibblewhite conjures for us in Your Heart Is Gushing Lavender, premiering on the mainstage at Nextfest 2024. … Continue reading →

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A comedy of adjusted vision: The Oculist’s Holiday at Teatro Live, a review

Posted on June 1, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The title will make you smile. In its way The Oculist’s Holiday, the 2009 Stewart Lemoine comedy with the whimsically archaic handle, is all about optics — vision, perspective, focus, correction. And in the play, set … Continue reading →

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‘Not quite like anything else he’s written’: Belinda Cornish directs a Teatro revival of Lemoine’s The Oculist’s Holiday

Posted on May 31, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Stewart Lemoine play that opens Friday at the Varscona in the Teatro Live! season is certainly a comedy, says Belinda Cornish, who’s directing the first revival of The Oculist’s Holiday since its 2009 Fringe debut. … Continue reading →

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‘New artists, new art’: Nextfest returns to the Roxy for a 29th annual edition

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What are they up to, the next generation of artists, the up-and-comers? Your chance to find out is close at hand. Nextfest, Edmonton’s multi-disciplinary festival of emerging arts, returns today to take over Theatre Network’s Roxy … Continue reading →

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Hints, signs, omens of spring: theatre possibilities this weekend

Posted on May 24, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the terrific new Conni Massing play Dead Letter, premiering at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre we meet a woman who’s desperate for meaning, obsessed by the unaccountable, hyper-alert to any small sign from the universe that … Continue reading →

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