Tag Archives: Citadel Theatre
From Romeo to Shakespeare: meet Andrew Chown, the actor who plays the mystery man
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca So who is William Shakespeare anyhow? The world has always wondered. And in the romantic comedy that opens the season Thursday on the Citadel mainstage, we meet the mystery man himself — as a young working … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Love
“We’re all in this together” forsooth: the spirit of inclusion in the Citadel season opener
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Shall I compare thee to a … sum … a sum … a something, something… Damn it.” In the opening scene of the play that launches the new Citadel season Thursday, we meet an up-and-coming playwright … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Christopher Marlowe, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Love
The new theatre season begins: hey, Edmonton has play dates!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “And the wall keeps out the enemy/ And we build the wall to keep us free….” —Hadestown In Hadestown, the Broadway-bound musical whose out-of-town opening happens at Edmonton’s largest playhouse the Citadel (Nov. 11 to Dec. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anaïs Mitchell, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Northern Light Theatre, Rachel Chavkin, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, theatre season, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
Celebrating the Edmonton theatre season: Irma Voth, Crazy For You, Stupid Fucking Bird lead the 30th annual Sterling Awards
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Art and life got down, mixed it up, and partied together at the 30th anniversary Sterling Awards gala Monday night, celebrating the best of the Edmonton theatre season. Three productions that, in dramatically different ways, spoke … Continue reading
The Citadel’s Beyond the Stage, where theatre, dance, and music collide: the 2017-2018 lineup announced
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the centre of the Citadel’s upcoming Beyond The Stage series, a quartet of innovative mash-ups of theatre, music and dance, is a startling, multi-award-winning production that goes directly to the heart of trauma, shock, grief. … Continue reading
A Sterling year onstage: nominations for Edmonton’s theatre awards
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A musical comedy in which a town and its citizens are transformed by putting on a show — a notion that Edmonton can enthusiastically get behind — proved the top choice of jurors as the 30th … Continue reading
Hey, emerging audience! it’s a weekend to go out to the theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s always anticipation in theatre, as there should be, about “emerging” playwrights, directors, actors. There are whole festivals devoted to them, like the upcoming 2017 edition of Nextfest. Leave aside for another day the tricky question … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, ELOPE, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network
Keep making sense: Sense and Sensibility at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the Citadel of an evening, you can overhear talk of annual incomes, real estate and mortgages, annuities and entailments, wills and estates, pre-nups. And, of course, renos. And no, gentle reader, it isn’t in the … Continue reading
The world of Jane Austen comes to the stage in Tom Wood’s new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With Sense and Sensibility, premiering on the Citadel MainStage Thursday in a Bob Baker production, playwright Tom Wood returns to the small-town Regency life into which he first tumbled, without Jane-ite baggage (even carry-on), in 2008. … Continue reading
Fun with the famiglia: Farren Timoteo talks about Made in Italy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When Farren Timoteo was seven years old, he arrived home from school one day to be greeted by his dad with the following (delivered in a portentous tone): “I think you’re old enough now.” Luigi was … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Farren Timoteo, Italian culture, Jasper, one-man shows, Western Canada Theatre
