Tag Archives: Alberta Playwrights Network

Celebrating playmakers: Springboards, Workshop West’s signature new play festival, is back

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Springboards springs back this week. And with it our chance to catch new Canadian plays-in-progress, a whole bunch of them at every stage of their evolution, as they meet an audience — us! — for the … Continue reading

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A big birthday weekend of theatre in Edmonton. A little 12thnight survey

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca •Opening tonight: Northern Light’s 50th anniversary season, with a new Trevor Schmidt production of The Pink Unicorn — a solo play by the American writer Elise Forier Edie whose timeliness has only escalated in the decade … Continue reading

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And here it is: the 2019 Alberta Playwriting Competition shortlist

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The venerable Alberta Playwriting Competition, 53 years old, has announced this year’s shortlist of plays, three from Edmonton three from Calgary. The list is culled, by a three-person jury, from a wealth of submissions, some 43 … Continue reading

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