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The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part two

Posted on July 25, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a tumultuous season, Edmonton theatre got shaken and stirred: big changes, big news,  big anniversaries celebrated, experiments, a homecoming…. Start with that. After years in exile, the Freewill Shakespeare Festival came home to Heritage Amphitheatre … Continue reading →

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The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part one

Posted on July 24, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Life of Pi, which launched the Citadel’s 60th anniversary season, the Indian teenager who finally washes ashore after an ocean-crossing with a Royal Bengal tiger, gets grilled by skeptics about his amazing story of survival. … Continue reading →

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And the 2025-2026 Sterling Awards go to …

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two high-contrast fairy tales — one a small-scale, whimsical musical love story with Fringe origins and the other a large-scale, fizzy 20-year-old Broadway musical —  proved the top choice of jurors at the 37th annual Sterling … Continue reading →

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Spell it, don’t sell it. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Citadel, a review

Posted on July 11, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the age of auto-correct, when the distinction between ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ has vanished into the mists of time — consider the kids in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, whose claims on glory depend … Continue reading →

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A June week on E-town stages: two festivals, a multi-character solo show, a drag queen extravaganza, a Pride party …

Posted on June 3, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A June week in Edmonton theatre: for starters, two festivals, a virtuoso solo show in which one extremely agile actor plays 40 (!) characters, an evening with local drag royalty, a big Pride block party. •The … Continue reading →

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Thinking big: the Citadel’s Collider Festival is back with new plays for Size Large stages

Posted on June 2, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Think big or go … wait. There’s a mantra not often heard in Canadian theatre, where “size matters,” another multi-purpose catchphrase, almost always really means “think smaller.” Thinking big is the agenda of Collider, the festival … Continue reading →

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Meet Concrete Theatre’s new artistic director Brett Dahl

Posted on May 25, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Concrete Theatre, the award-winning 39-year-old Edmonton company devoted to making theatre for young audiences, has found a new artistic director. The multi-faceted theatre artist Brett Dahl inherits the Concrete artistic directorship from Jenna Rodgers (who’s moving … Continue reading →

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A new Canadian rom-com is the season finale at L’UniThéâtre (and other theatre too this weekend)

Posted on May 22, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The grand finale of L’UniThéâtre’s all-Canadian season is a premiere: a new rom-com by an Edmonton theatre artist, set in a small Franco-Albertan village. Sophie Gareau-Brennan’s bouanderie/boulangerie — doesn’t laundry/bakery sound so much better in French? … Continue reading →

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Words, glorious words: Cyrano de Bergerac, a captivating new adaptation at the Citadel. A review.

Posted on May 9, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A wave, a tide, a torrent, a veritable deluge of poetry of every kind comes at you, in glorious profusion, from the Citadel mainstage in a wonderful new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac by Jessy Ardern. … Continue reading →

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A weekend to be in the theatre! So many choices, so little time. A 12thnight survey

Posted on May 8, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Put down your rakes, and your clickers, people. There’s a veritable explosion of theatre happening on Edmonton stages this weekend. A surfeit of possibilities: so many choices, so little time. At Shadow, it’s a comedy of … Continue reading →

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