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The strangest of seasons: a truncated year on Edmonton stages in Sterling Award nominations
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two high-contrast shows, one a subterranean prairie slow-burn tragedy and the other a riotous blood-spattered revenge comedy of the Shakespearean persuasion, proved the top choices of jurors as the 33rd annual Sterling Award nominations were announced … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blarney Productions, Catalyst Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, Northern Light Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Sterling Award nominations, Theatre Network, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Vena Amoris, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
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Stunning, strongly sung, compellingly theatrical: The Invisible at Catalyst. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In The Invisible – Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare, an Allied team of World War II super-warriors are recruited and trained, each with a specialty in the stealth warrior skill set. And then they’re unleashed behind enemy … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bretta Gerecke, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jonathan Christenson, Special Operations Executives, Vera Atkins, World War II espionage
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Catalyst’s new musical takes us into the girls’ club of elite secret agents. Meet the creators of The Invisible
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Espionage: Upstagers and exhibitionists need not apply. In the long-awaited new Catalyst musical that finally gets its Edmonton debut Friday on the Maclab stage, we infiltrate a shadowy, high-risk world of wartime spies where the job … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight, 12thnight.ca, Bretta Gerecke, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jonathan Christenson, SOE, Special Operations Executive, World War II espionage
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Welcome back! Act II of the Edmonton theatre season is about to begin
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know what you’re thinking — post-festivity regret, punishing resolutions, the sense of finale. But cast off these thoughts: the theatre season isn’t ending. It’s only intermission. And intermission is over. Welcome back; Act II is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta Aboriginal Arts, Broadway Across Canada, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Impossible Mongoose, Malachite Theatre, Mayfield Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Stonemarrow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Todd Babiak, Wild Side Productions
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It’s show time in Edmonton theatre: what to not miss this season on E-town stages
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “That was what had been missing from his life all these years. His career, his city, this bonehead province. Mythic Power.” — The Garneau Block. In Todd Babiak’s wry and funny novel The Garneau Block, reborn … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019-2020 theatre season, Azimuth Theatre, Blarney Productions, Bright Young Things, Broadway Across Canada, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Impossible Mongoose, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Todd Babiak, Varscona Theatre Ensemble, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
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Élise contre l’extinction totale: a new L’UniThéâtre show for and about kids – and the planet – hits the road
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Anxiety about climate change and the fate of the earth isn’t the exclusive domain of adults. And “save the planet” isn’t vaguely theoretical, or metaphorical, or political: 16,306 species of animals are currently at risk of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, kids theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Paula Humby, the Donnellys, Vigilante
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A season on Edmonton stages: a look back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening scene of Jabberwocky, the latest from the Old Trout Puppet Workshop (at Theatre Network this past season), a drum roll announces the parting of a red velvet theatre curtain. Which opens to reveal … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Atlas Theatre, Bright Young Things, Canadian Stage, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre season, Fort Edmonton Park, Kill Your Television Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Lewis Carroll, Northern Light Theatre, Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Plain Jane Theatre, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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“Drink harder, dance longer,” fall in love: the hot-blooded rock musical Onegin, a 12thnight review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening number of Onegin, a spirited ensemble assembles onstage and offers up the quintessential theatre invocation. “Our dear father up in heaven,” they sing, vodka in hand and eyes cast towards a theatrical firmament … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alexander Pushkin, Amiel Gladstone, Arts Club Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Maclab Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Onegin, rock musicals, Tchaikovsky, Veda Hille
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Onegin: the country’s hottest new rock musical arrives at Catalyst. Meet the team who created it
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca An original Canadian indie rock musical arrives on Catalyst’s home stage Thursday. And it trails the kind of buzz and rapturous reviews to fight duels for — not mention a big, juicy, romantic Russian story. Onegin, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amiel Gladstone, Arts Club Theatre, Canadian musicals, Catalyst Presents, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Onegin, Veda Hille
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Catalyst Presents: Onegin, the Vancouver hit rock musical coming our way!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A unusual love story, in which one of our most inventive theatre companies falls, hard, for an inventive show — and makes advances: Catalyst Theatre has fallen in love with Onegin, a much-awarded original … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Arts Club Theatre, Catalyst Presents, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Maclab Theatre, Onegin, Pushkin, rock musicals, Tchaikovsky
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