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Finding harmony: stories from inside the choir. Crescendo! at Shadow Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What exactly is it about singing, and especially singing with other people, that lures people into choirs to make music together? That’s the question at the heart of Sandy Paddick’s Crescendo!. And not only is it … Continue reading
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The dark glitter of a dream cruise on the River Styx: Pochsy IV. A new Karen Hines satire at Theatre Network. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s an unnerving glitter and queasy hilarity to the satire that launches the season at Theatre Network. “I dreamed you, I manifested you,” proposes the figure who appears before us — a tarnished angel? a wicked … Continue reading
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Crescendo!, Shadow Theatre’s first-ever musical, opens the 30th anniversary season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the last three decades Shadow Theatre has produced plays of every size, shape, tone, and sensibility, often contemporary but not always. Shakespeare, Chekhov, Noel Coward have Shadow credits; so do American big-shots like Paula Vogel, … Continue reading
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She’s back! Karen Hines’s toxic pixie returns in Pochsy IV, to launch the Theatre Network season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca She’s back. We met Pochsy at the Fringe in 1992, a smudgy-eyed chalky-faced kewpie with a lethal mixture of charm and vitriol coursing through her veins — and that sweet Clara Bow smile. In Pochsy’s Lip … Continue reading
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A matter of death (and life): a quirky rom-com en route to the Underworld: A Phoenix Too Frequent at Northern Light, a review
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Christopher Fry, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre season, Northern Light Theatre, verse drama
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Multi-faceted theatre artist Ellen Chorley returns to the stage in A Phoenix Too Frequent, the Northern Light season-opener
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The production that launches the Northern Light Theatre season Friday, returns a company known for its edgy contemporary choices to a play — a vintage post-war romantic comedy, in verse — it produced 45 years ago. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Christopher Fry, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest Arts Co., Northern Light Theatre, Promise Productions, Send in the Girls Burlesque, verse drama
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The delectable fun of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a glum age where the things to be serious about are piling up by the second, there is something inspirational about launching a season with a comedy whose airy architecture is built, rock solid, on … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Oscar Wilde, Shaw Festival, The Importance of Being Earnest
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‘Celebrate amazingness!’ The Play’s The Thing has 20 Edmonton stage companies do Hamlet
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Talk about a hold on the collective consciousness. For 400-plus years the world has been wondering, and arguing, analyzing and thinking about Hamlet, the most celebrated and mysterious of plays by history’s most celebrated and mysterious … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Girl Brain, Good Women Dance Collective, Guys in Disguise, House of Hush Burlesque, Marv 'N Berry, Mile Zero Dance, Northern Light Theatre, Ready Go Theatre, Teatro Live! Batrabbit Collective, Theatre Prospero, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here Theatre
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A beautiful day in the neighbourhood: Laurel Canyon and the ‘California Sound’ in Rock The Canyon at the Mayfield
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When the poet Joni Mitchell referred in song to “pouring music down the canyon,” the image attaches its mythical reverb to a real locale in a real city — and a real, remarkably expansive five-year period … Continue reading
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‘A new bounce in its step’: The Importance of Being Earnest at the Citadel relocates to the ’50s. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The last time the distinguished director Jackie Maxwell was in town — working at the Citadel for the first time, amazingly, in 2018 — she brought to the stage a darkly funny, disturbing group portrait of … Continue reading
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