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2025, and live theatre as the prize human connector: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2025: What a crazy, scary year it’s been. The world seems impossibly fractious, incoherent, unrecognizable. Can anyone really say they feel at home there? But the full-throttle invasion of screens of every size by A.I. has … Continue reading
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Tagged best of theatre 2025, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatrete, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Workshop West Theatre
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An intriguing week in Edmonton theatre: go see a show
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s an intriguing week in Edmonton theatre. An influential festival that’s all about getting splashed by the next wave. Not one but two productions, from two vastly different companies, that tap into the rich and weird … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ArtsHub Ortona, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2025, Rising Sun Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network
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‘You felt like home right from the get-go’. KaldrSaga, Cardiac’s ‘new queer, old Norse cabaret’. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a very unusual storyteller’s cabaret happening in a handsome brick- and wood-lined room in the river valley. Norse mythology: where friends meet. And if the gods are overseeing the whole operation from their own spot … Continue reading
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Tagged ArtsHub Ortona, Cardiac Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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Getting the band back together. Cardiac Theatre is back! KaldrSaga: a new queer, old Norse cabaret, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Coming together to tell stories (and hear them). It’s what people do; it’s what people have always done; it’s what people will keep doing. Call that urge a tradition. Or a compulsion. At heart, Cardiac Theatre’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Queer Calendar Project, ArtsHub Ortona, Cardiac Theatre, Common Ground Arts, Edmonton theatre
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Excitement in a theatre town: you have to be there. Theatre possibilities this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca More proof, as if you needed any, that Edmonton is a theatre town: A week of exciting possibilities for your nights out. A Quebec thriller. A musical about the struggle to write a musical about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Dad's Garage, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, In Arms Theatre Collective, Larry Reese, MacEwan University theatre arts, Metro Cinema, Rapid Fire Theatre, Script Salon, Theatre Network, Trinity Gallery, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The year in podcast dramas: The Alberta Queer Calendar Project
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lately I feel like I’m constantly on the edge of a vortex. Swimming. Trying to keep my head above water.” — Local Diva, Liam Salmon In January when his “one-person drag queen drama” premiered in podcast … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta queer writing, Cardiac Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest, The Alberta Queer Calendar Project, What It Is Productions
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KaldrSaga: the secret lives of gods and heroes in Cardiac’s genial storytelling pub show. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Tell me a story” (preferably “funny but dark”). And make it snappy. Hey, what are friends for? In KaldrSaga: A Queer Tavern Drama For A Midwinter’s Night, Harley Morison’s free-wheeling new pub show for Cardiac Theatre, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12tnight.ca, Cardiac Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Harley Morison, Norse mythology, The Almanac
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Hoist a pint, tell a tale: Cardiac Theatre’s KaldrSaga at The Almanac
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the dead of winter in dark northern cities, humans put on their boots and gravitate to pubs. There they congregate, hoist beer, and tell tales. That time-honoured oral tradition is honoured in the play/ storytelling … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cardiac Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Norse mythology, storyteller theatre, The Almanac
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And so it begins, the new theatre season. Edmonton has play dates, and here’s a teaser!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you’re stuck in your story and want to get out … sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty….” Matilda. In Matilda, the joyously subversive musical spun from Roald Dahl’s novel, our activist eight-year-old … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Brian Webb Dance Company, Broadway Across Canada, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Hardline Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Shadow Theatre, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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