-
Search
Patreon
Categories
Tag Archives: Citadel Theatre
Was it Professor Plum, in the library, with the …? The lead-pipe cinch fun of Clue at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Let the game begin.” What fun. A high-style midsummer comedy whodunnit with all the trimmings, and a larky air of high camp about it. That’s Clue, currently dropping clues, suspicions, weapons, suspects, and dead bodies through … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Clue, Edmonton theatre, murder mysteries, Whodunnits
Comments Off on Was it Professor Plum, in the library, with the …? The lead-pipe cinch fun of Clue at the Citadel, a review
Four decades of playing without a script: the Rapid Fire Theatre story is now a book
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The thing you’ve just got to love about Rapid Fire Theatre is that everything that makes you anxious (if not out and out crazy) in life is delightful to them. It’s their high-octane fuel, their motivation, … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Patti Stiles, Rapid Fire Theatre, Theatre Network, Varscona Theatre
Comments Off on Four decades of playing without a script: the Rapid Fire Theatre story is now a book
Spirits rise: revisiting the Edmonton theatre season, part two
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Fever Land, according to that heartbreaking/ riotous comedy by which Teatro La Quindicina returned to live performance last fall, is the kingdom where your spirits rise, vivacity accelerates, and the gray clammy feeling of routine is … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Tiny Bear Jaws, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
Comments Off on Spirits rise: revisiting the Edmonton theatre season, part two
Celebrating the Edmonton theatre season that returned to live, part one
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It began in some trepidation, cautiously, experimentally, with complicated logistics, under constant threat of delays and cancellations. But this was the season that live theatre actually returned to live and in-person. Yes, the pivot pivoted. We … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Play The Fool Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Rapid Fire Theatre, RISER Edmonton, Roxy Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
Comments Off on Celebrating the Edmonton theatre season that returned to live, part one
Where there’s fire there’s … Smoke: assault, consent and gender in a play with two casts
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Smoke, getting its Edmonton premiere Thursday at Co*Lab, a woman opens her apartment door to discover that the past has showed up. Aiden’s -ex is there to confront her about allegations she’s made to a … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Co*Lab, Downstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Tiny Bear Jaws
Comments Off on Where there’s fire there’s … Smoke: assault, consent and gender in a play with two casts
The inheritance of war and the passion for freedom: Alina is a Ukrainian story
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In early 2015, a 19-year-old woman left Kyiv, and everything in her life there — and she went to the front line of the war zone in eastern Ukraine. Alina was not a soldier. She was … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lianna Makuch, Matthew MacKenzie, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Ukrainian diaspora
Comments Off on The inheritance of war and the passion for freedom: Alina is a Ukrainian story
Revenge, cartoon-style: 9 to 5 the musical at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Joy to the girls. The vintage revenge fantasy now charging around the office on the Citadel’s Maclab stage — propelled by Dolly Parton songs and a perennial point about exploitation of women in the work place … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, 9 to 5, Citadel Theatre, Dolly Parton, Edmonton theatre
Comments Off on Revenge, cartoon-style: 9 to 5 the musical at the Citadel, a review
Taking down the boss: 9 to 5 the musical at the Citadel, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight. ca Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living…. “It’s joyful, it’s funny, it’s absolutely a revenge story!” says director Rachel Peake of the musical comedy that opens this week at the Citadel, … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, 9 to 5, Citadel Theatre, Dolly Parton, Edmonton theatre
Comments Off on Taking down the boss: 9 to 5 the musical at the Citadel, a preview
Tell Us What Happened: sexual assault and social media, in Michelle Robb’s new play at Workshop West
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new play that premieres Thursday in Heather Inglis’s Workshop West production invites us into a circle of young female friends who find themselves in crisis in the fraught border country between social media and the … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, U of A drama department, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
Comments Off on Tell Us What Happened: sexual assault and social media, in Michelle Robb’s new play at Workshop West
Reading the signs: The Herd premieres at the Citadel. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The stage is dominated by a stunning screen — glowing, translucent, undulating like the prairies, with a graceful open-work lattice (Indigenous Tiffany?). In The Herd the boundary between the present and the past, this world and other … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre, National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre, Persephone Theatre, Tarragon Theatre
Comments Off on Reading the signs: The Herd premieres at the Citadel. A review.
12thNight.ca 