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Falling slowly for Once: a low-key musical fairy-tale opens the Citadel season. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I pay you with music,” says the fairy godmother to the despondent troubadour in Once. And lo and behold, making music is the ultimate fairy elixir: it can transform you from half-dead to fully alive, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, musical theatre, Once
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Once … upon a time: meet Ann Hodges, director of the cult film-turned-musical that launches the Citadel season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Once … upon a time there was a winsomely offbeat 2007 indie Irish film, about the unlikely friendship between a Dublin street musician and a Czech immigrant. It was made for a dime (well, $150,000), shot … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Enda Walsh, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, musical theatre, Once
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And so it begins, the new theatre season. Edmonton has play dates, and here’s a teaser!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you’re stuck in your story and want to get out … sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty….” Matilda. In Matilda, the joyously subversive musical spun from Roald Dahl’s novel, our activist eight-year-old … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Brian Webb Dance Company, Broadway Across Canada, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Hardline Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Shadow Theatre, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Things I learned at the Sterling Awards gala: a coda
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thoughts from the Sterling gala (directed by Kate Ryan and written by Shannon Blanchet and Belinda Cornish). •For openers: Co-hosts Rachel Bowron and Hunter Cardinal were sparklers. They opened the show with Beauty, a witty and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Playwriting Competition, Capitol Theatre, Citadel Theatre, clown and mask, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Sterling Award gala, Sterling Awards
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A season on Edmonton stages: a look back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening scene of Jabberwocky, the latest from the Old Trout Puppet Workshop (at Theatre Network this past season), a drum roll announces the parting of a red velvet theatre curtain. Which opens to reveal … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Atlas Theatre, Bright Young Things, Canadian Stage, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre season, Fort Edmonton Park, Kill Your Television Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Lewis Carroll, Northern Light Theatre, Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Plain Jane Theatre, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Just in time: on Edmonton stages this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca •Last chance this weekend for the Theatre Network production of Hannah Moscovitch’s fascinating Infinity — a smart, accessible and strangely affecting play about time — the shortage of it, the meaning of it, the misuse of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, damn magpies, dance theatre, Edmonton theatre, ELOPE, Good Women Dance, Hannah Moscovitch, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Theatre Network
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The Silver Arrow: all-inclusive theatre at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “There’s a story that’s waiting for you,” sing the ensemble in one of Hawksley Workman’s most lyrical songs in The Silver Arrow: The Untold Story Of Robin Hood. “The adventure will find you when you’re ready … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Edmonton theatre, family theatre, Firefly Theatre, Mieko Ouchi, Robin Hood, stage combat
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