Tag Archives: Citadel Theatre

Illusion and delusion: A Streetcar Named Desire at the Citadel. A review

Posted on September 27, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One of American theatre’s greatest plays about illusion and delusion — and the power and limitations of both — is the season-opener at the Citadel. And in Daryl Cloran’s beautifully acted production of A Streetcar Named … Continue reading →

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Reaching for magic: Lindsey Angell stars as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, launching the Citadel season

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “The world is violent and mercurial–it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love. …We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is … Continue reading →

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Edmonton has play dates: here’s a dozen intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s time to play. After a year of continuing struggle, with rising production costs and dwindling funding, theatre companies and artists are finding their way back to stages large and small. Our mighty summer Fringe, as … Continue reading →

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So … what could possibly go wrong? The Play That Goes Wrong at the Citadel, a review

Posted on July 13, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Live theatre is a risky business. And there’s a show onstage in town designed expressly, with single-minded high-precision calculation, to mine the comic gold in that. The Play That Goes Wrong, currently making people laugh en … Continue reading →

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Classic comedy: a summertime weekend in Edmonton theatre

Posted on July 13, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, Edmonton, look what’s waiting for you onstage this weekend. Something about summer inspires our theatre artists to tangle with the classics, reimagine them, put them in new shapes: A classic playwright (you guessed, Shakespeare), in … Continue reading →

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Celebrating the season in Edmonton theatre: Mermaid Legs leads the way at the 36th annual Sterling Awards

Posted on June 25, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The spirit of off-centre ‘small theatre’ originality blew through the 36th annual Sterling Awards gala Monday night as the theatre community gathered to toast the 2023-24 season on Edmonton stages. And two challenging productions that live … Continue reading →

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Finding a creative spark that had gone missing: theatre director Dennis Garnhum walks the Camino

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

“The noise in my head has been quieted by the gentle sounds of the ocean….” — Toward Beauty by Dennis Garnhum By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the story of a theatre artist who found something he thought he’d lost … Continue reading →

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The year in Edmonton theatre: the 2023-24 Sterling Award nominations

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A “surreal theatre dance fantasia” that premiered as the centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival proved decisively the top choice of jurors as the 35th annual Sterling Awards nominations were announced Thursday at the Westbury Theatre. … Continue reading →

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‘An ode to my community’: Ms. Pat’s Kitchen at Nextfest. Meet actor/playwright Jameela McNeil

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you saw Jameela McNeil’s blistering performance as the sister of an ambitious Black boxer in The Royale last season at the Citadel, you already known something about the intensity and focus of this young theatre … Continue reading →

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Get your festival on (and other theatre, too) this week

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a three-festival week in this theatre town (in addition to a much anticipated theatre revival and an intriguing opera experiment).The festive season is here, and the moment is at hand for you to venture forth … Continue reading →

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