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A comedy thriller inside a comedy thriller: Deathtrap at Teatro Live! A review

Posted on November 19, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a play that judges success when the audience gasps together, then laughs at its own collective surprise, it’s the one that opens the season at Teatro Live! (the newly renamed Teatro La … Continue reading →

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A life transformed by hip-hop: Evandalism opens the Fringe Theatre season

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Henry Andrade (aka MC RedCloud) has a story. It’s personal, it’s dramatic, it’s hopeful, it crucially involves hip-hop. And, starting Friday on the Westbury stage, he’s sharing it from the stage in a one-man storytelling performance/show … Continue reading →

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Two sparring playwrights in a vintage thriller: Deathtrap opens the Teatro Live! season

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The twisty comedy thriller that opens the Teatro season on the Varscona stage Friday is a classic, Ira Levin’s vintage 1978 Broadway hit Deathtrap.  But the production that launches the Teatro La Quindicina of old into … Continue reading →

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Is that a giant ice cube I see before me? Titanical the Musical at Spotlight Cabaret, a review

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “How are we doing … emotionally?” the Unsinkable Molly Brown (Aimée Beaudoin) asks us at the outset, from the stage of the Spotlight Cabaret.  Well, pretty darn chipper, actually. The joint is packed on a Sunday … Continue reading →

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From Plain Jane, Sweeney Todd in close-up: feel the rage. A review

Posted on November 12, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You don’t want to think too hard about the dark smudges on the tiled wall. Or that loud industrial metallic grinding noise. Or the Please Remove Your Rubbers sign.  We’re in the spartan break room of … Continue reading →

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Almost A Full Moon at the Citadel: Canada has a new holiday musical, full of snow, stories, and soup. A review

Posted on November 11, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Almost A Full Moon, the oddly joyous and insightful new holiday musical premiering at the Citadel, generations jostle together on the stage.   Wispy stray people, strangers, somehow find each other, get connected, and become … Continue reading →

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Newly rock-ified and fast on its feet: Jesus Christ Superstar arrives at the Jube. A review.

Posted on November 9, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a rush down the aisles, a veritable runners’ stampede onto the stage at the start of the Broadway Across Canada touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar that exploded into the Jube Tuesday. And it reimagines … Continue reading →

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Up close and chilling: a small-scale Sweeney Todd for our time, from the Plain Janes

Posted on November 7, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd/ He served a dark and vengeful god….” Starting Friday in a small and intriguing downtown space (CO*LAB), up close enough to smell blood, Plain Jane Theatre brings us a small-cast chamber … Continue reading →

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On the right track, baby: Vegas Live at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on November 6, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Vegas. The time-honoured holiday fixer-upper for when you want to take a load off, shed your inhibitions and quite a few layers of your clothes, stay up way late, drink giddy drinks, get married, beam come-hither … Continue reading →

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Face the dusk: off the couch everyone, and into the theatre this weekend

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Our outdoor colour scheme has gone monochromatic; something weird has happened to the evening lighting. There is an obvious fix: face the gathering darkness, arise from the couch and go to the theatre. There’s been a … Continue reading →

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