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2021: the year Edmonton theatre returned to live (part one)

Posted on December 17, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In theatre, 2021 is a year that isn’t ending as it began. It was more than half over when The Pivot pivoted. Live performance gradually, cautiously ventured out of its online exile, where it had creatively … Continue reading →

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Merry, merry … further suggestions for your holiday entertainment this week

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the week you can get Santa to say Merry Christmas to you in a language of your choice — for $4.38 (including fees). It’s also the week you can go backstage in the notoriously … Continue reading →

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Sharing the story: a new version of Lake of the Strangers opens the Fringe Theatre season on stage and screen

Posted on December 7, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the play you’ll see Saturday night — either live on Fringe Theatre’s Westbury stage or live-streamed on Fringe TV from there — you’ll meet two little Indigenous brothers, 10 and seven. They’re out on a … Continue reading →

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A windfall for actresses: Brad Fraser’s 5@50 at Walterdale

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens Wednesday live on the Walterdale stage does something rare in theatre. In a world where aging is a vanishing act for women artists, Brad Fraser’s 5@50 provides a windfall: five big, juicy … Continue reading →

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A shared responsibility for human happiness: A Christmas Carol is back at the Citadel, live. A review.

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Snow’s a given. Sunset before happy hour, also a given. But in Edmonton it’s never really “beginning to look a lot like Christmas” till A Christmas Carol opens at the Citadel. That’s just the way it … Continue reading →

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A bona fide hit with Jason in the title? Say, what? The second, third, and fourth wave of Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca C’mon, who could have predicted that the hottest ticket in the first half of the Edmonton theatre season would be a show with “Jason Kenney” in the title? Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer is a bona … Continue reading →

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Some day soon we all will be together… A Christmas Carol is back live at the Citadel

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Daryl Cloran has discovered an infallible new applause line, simple but profound. He’s used it in pre-show remarks to audiences at the Citadel’s productions of The Fiancée, Bears, and The Garneau Block this fall. Same effect … Continue reading →

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Holding the torch in a man’s world: The Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921 at Northern Light Theatre. A review

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca History is the springboard for The Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921, the cunningly knotted little play that opens the Northern Light Theatre season in Trevor Schmidt’s crackling production. The title reveals the small-town crime, recorded by … Continue reading →

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Rave on: Buddy Holly is back at the Mayfield. A review

Posted on November 20, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You have about as much sex appeal as a telegraph pole,” an old-timey Texas country radio DJ tells a nerdy, bespectacled young man with rock n’ roll on his mind at the outset of Buddy: The … Continue reading →

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Linda Wood Edwards reimagines a mysterious chapter in our history: The Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921 at Northern Light

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In December 26, 1921, just outside the small Alberta town of Big Valley, a brothel started by an enterprising woman burned to the ground.Narrow escapes ensued, as duly reported by The Big Valley News that week. … Continue reading →

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