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Hockey night in Edmonton: Playing With Fire re-opens the Mayfield. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With the production that reopened the Mayfield Dinner theatre for real-live audiences this week (for a six-week run), hockey doesn’t just pirouette around theatre. No, there’s a bone-rattling full bodycheck into the boards. And there are … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Calgary Flames, Edmonton theatre, hockey plays, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Theo Fleury
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Dance inspired by stage design: Mile Zero Dance’s season-opener is an experimental cabaret
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a sassy what-if? streak in the Mile Zero Dance DNA. And you’ll see it in action Saturday night in a new way when the new MZD digital season, De-Program, comes to life on Zoom. What … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Banff Centre, Edmonton dance, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University, Mile Zero Dance, ShaktiFlow, theatre design, Trent Crosby
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Impossible? EDMONten, a showcase of full-length 10-minute plays
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If we didn’t know it before, we do now, after six months of theatre trying hard and being ingenious on screen, size isn’t everything. (And as for duration, haven’t you asked yourself what’s happened to your … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, EDMONten, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, The Short & Suite Collective
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Playing With Fire: the Mayfield straps on the blades, live, with the Theo Fleury story
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The show that skates (really!) onto the Mayfield Dinner Theatre stage next week — live — is the story of a small-town prairie boy from a neglectful and chaotic family, who makes a big life-changing discovery. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, hockey plays, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Ron Jenkins, Shaun Smyth, Theo Fleury
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And back to the live! a horizon-expanding experiment at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On Friday March 13 I went to the theatre — the Varscona, to see Shadow Theatre’s production of Heisenberg, starring Amber Borotsik and Glenn Nelson. I haven’t stepped into a theatre since. Until Saturday night. Which … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Horizon Lab
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Heart + Soul: EPCOR’s good news for the performing arts
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Every theatre company (and performing arts organization) in this live theatre town has sustained a devastating blow in the sudden, and continuing, shutdown of the industry six months ago. In a bleak landscape for live performance, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton performing arts, Edmonton theatre, EPCOR, Heart + Soul Fund
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The Free Willies: the ‘sounds and sweet airs’ of travelling troubadours
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Some time before the end of the month, it will happen. You’ll be in a park. Or a community playground. At a farmer’s market. Or chilling on a front deck. And suddenly, a little troupe of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Thou Art Here Theatre
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Fringe FOMO: House of Hush burlesque goes live
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Take it off! No, wait…. In the age of COVID, burlesque, a teasing vaudeville involving the playful progressive doffing of apparel, can remove just about everything — everything, that is, but the mask. Masked showgirls: now, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, burlesque, Edmonton theatre, Garneau Theatre, House of Hush Burlesque, Metro Cinema, Nextfest, Send in the Girls
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And back at the castle: a radio play version of Guys in Disguise’s Dragula
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It sounds like a sublime punchline: a drag show, in all its be-wigged glam-frocked glory, as a radio play? True, there’s a certain captivating perversity about the Guys in Disguise revival of their hit Fringe show … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Guys in Disguise, radio plays, Trevor Schmidt
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Signs of life: live theatre is coming back, with cautious first steps
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca And they’re back! Very cautiously, of course, experimentally, a little tentatively, with ultra-sanitized jazz hands. And not full-blast: nary a large-scale musical in sight, needless to say. But live theatre is starting to be back … … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, BIPOC theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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