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The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Remembering the 2024-2025 theatre season — in its performances, its design inspirations, its risky experiments, its moments of magic (and/or crazy live-ness) — and its saddest, most irreplaceable losses. Start with those. The passing of wonderful … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, fenceless theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Mayfield Theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Remembering the season in Edmonton theatre, highlights part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Goblin:Macbeth, the brilliant Spontaneous Theatre production that came to the Citadel’s Highwire Series this season, one of the goblin stars wonders aloud what the strange human ritual called theatre is actually for, anyhow. And he … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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New plays for size large stages: the Citadel’s Collider Festival is back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Think big. That’s the not-secret agenda of the festival that returns to the Citadel Friday. The Collider Fest, named for the collision of artists and forms, is all about developing new plays for size large and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Collider Festival, Edmonton theatre, new Canadian plays
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An intriguing week in Edmonton theatre: go see a show
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s an intriguing week in Edmonton theatre. An influential festival that’s all about getting splashed by the next wave. Not one but two productions, from two vastly different companies, that tap into the rich and weird … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ArtsHub Ortona, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2025, Rising Sun Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network
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Taking Wagner on a wild ride into the theatre: Andy Moro talks about designing Die Walküre at Edmonton Opera
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When we last saw them, a year ago in Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold on the Citadel’s Maclab stage, the gods were poised uneasily on the doom-laden threshold of their new home, Valhalla. The Rhine maidens were … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Die Walküre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Richard Wagner, Ring Cycle
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Hot theatre choices on Edmonton stages for your long weekend, a 12thnight survey
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You don’t lack for choices in Edmonton theatre as the long weekend approaches (Queen Victoria wouldn’t have it any other way). Consider some of your options: the premiere of a new Canadian play with a whimsical … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Initium Theatre, Mayfield Theatre, Psychopomp Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A theatrical index to a beloved novel: Little Women at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The March siblings, growing up in genteel poverty in Civil War America, might well be literature’s most famous sister act since Jane Austen’s Bennets. And ever since they stepped out from the pages of Louisa May … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Stratford Festival
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Lots to see on Edmonton stages this week, a small survey of the landscape
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, Edmonton. You have choices for your evenings out at the theatre this week: two Canadian comedies, a wicked Brit satire, a multi-disciplinary arts festival, a stage adaptation of a much-loved novel, a prairie love story, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jabulani Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Prairie Strange Productions, Punctuate! Theatre, Ribbon Rouge Foundation, Shadow Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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High-level thievery in an elaborate plot: Heist at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s complicated high-level thievery going on at the Citadel. Just for fun, a genre has been lifted, improbably, right from under the nose of the cinema, its natural owner. Heist is a theft on behalf of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grand Theatre, heist movies, Vertigo Theatre
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