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“A little bit naughty”: Matilda rewrites her story in the hit musical opening at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We are revolting children/ living in revolting times. We sing revolting songs/ using revolting rhymes. Kicking, punching, and stomping are de rigueur in the rehearsal rooms of the Citadel these days. “We talk about fighting, not about … Continue reading
Happy Valentine’s champagne and a show: where to take your date to celebrate
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Of all the high holidays, the one that shares a name with a variety of massacres and martyrdoms is coming up. It’s also the ultimate date night. So in order to celebrate romance, there are a … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Chinook Series, Citadel Club, Citadel Theatre, Damien Atkins, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Farren Timoteo, Fort Edmonton Park, Girl Brain, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Send in the Girls Burlesque, Studio Theatre, Theatre Network
The Citadel’s upcoming 54th season: local stars in an international galaxy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new logo is just the tip-off. Monday afternoon at Edmonton’s largest playhouse artistic director Daryl Cloran unveiled an ambitious upcoming Citadel season — its 54th and his third as the architect of the company lineup. … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged A Christmas Carol, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Mischief Theatre, Pulitzer Prize, Todd Babiak
Sweat, a blue-collar tragedy of work and race, at the Citadel: A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you’ve ever wondered why disenfranchised workers seem to vote, time and again, against their own economic self-interest — and it’s a moment in history to be awestruck by that — the play currently onstage at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize, Sweat, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre
The collapse of the blue-collar dream: Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winner, comes to the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “They don’t understand that human decency is at the core of everything. They squeeze us like a sponge, drain every last drop of blood out and then throw us away.” — Stan the bartender in Sweat, … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize, Sweat, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre
Abandon your grinch, all ye who enter here: holiday shows on E-town stages this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Give yourself a holiday treat this week. This week on E-town stages, you can feel the holiday spirit in a live radio play (It’s A Wonderful Life), a Christmas panto (Little Red Riding Hood), or a … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Blunt Entertainment, Capitol Theatre, Christmas pantos, Christmas shows, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Grindstone Theatre, It's A Wonderful Life, live radio plays, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network, Theatre of the New Heart, Whizgiggling Productions
Keeping Christmas in our hearts: A Christmas Carol to lift your spirits at the Citadel. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?” For 19 years, Edmonton theatre audiences have had their own special answer, hand-delivered from the stage live and in person. It’s come to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Bob Baker, Charles Dickens, Citadel Theatre, Ebenezer Scrooge, Edmonton theatre, Leslie Frankish, Tom Wood
Keeping Christmas in our hearts: A Christmas Carol to lift our spirits at the Citadel. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?” For 19 years, Edmonton theatre audiences have had their own special answer, hand-delivered from the stage live and in person. It’s come to … Continue reading
“The season when abundance rejoices”: a splendid Christmas Carol retires at the Citadel after 19 seasons
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Christmas, sir, is a cheat!” snaps Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge with a grimace of distaste that may strike a chord in your own soul — especially if you’ve done time in a mall, barraged by retail jollity … Continue reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like …
Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s mistletoe, a tree, and an against-the-odds nerd romance in the delightful holiday show currently running at the Citadel. Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, has taken the initiative on seasonal entertainments, by transplanting us in the evergreen … Continue reading
