Tag Archives: Citadel Theatre

Humanizing a hero in a mysterious encounter: The Mountaintop at the Citadel, a review

Posted on April 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A road-weary man with a cough and holes in his socks arrives back in an undistinguished Memphis motel on a stormy night in April 1968, dying for a cigarette and checking for hidden microphones before he … Continue reading →

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‘Let the whole world melt away!’ Nuova Vocal Arts goes to The Prom

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I just wanna dance with you/ Let the whole world melt away/ And dance with you/ Who cares what other people say?”  — The Prom In The Prom, the double-sided Broadway musical comedy/ satire that opens … Continue reading →

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The long weekend in a theatre town

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What happens on a long weekend in a theatre town? For starters, a new indie puppet musical and a musical theatre classic, an insightful and captivating comedy about teenage girls, a musical revue, a new play … Continue reading →

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This is no weekend to stay home: see some theatre

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wheee. It’s the weekend, and your entertainment on Edmonton theatre stages awaits. Check out some possibilities. In a cross-company pooling of talent, Trevor Schmidt’s new comedy Robot Girls premieres at Shadow Theatre. Four teenage girls at … Continue reading →

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A glorious score that’s already in your brain: The Sound of Music at the Citadel, a review

Posted on March 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Sound of Music, now delighting audiences at the Citadel, is at the top of a tiny list of resistance-is-futile musicals whose mere titles dig into the tune retention part of the brain and won’t let … Continue reading →

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Andrea Menard’s Rubaboo, a Métis cabaret: songs, stories, and an emotional jouney to open your heart

Posted on February 10, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The title of the “cabaret” that opens Thursday on the Citadel’s Maclab stage borrows the Michif word for a multi-ingredient stew.  In Rubaboo, Andrea Menard — the acclaimed Métis singer-songwriter/ actor/ playwright/ teacher/ founder of the … Continue reading →

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Salute the range of E-town theatre this week, a 12thnight survey

Posted on February 9, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We salute the startling range of Edmonton theatre. It’s a week when … … Métis singer-songwriter/actor/playwright Andrea Menard takes to the Citadel MainStage with Rubaboo (the Michif word for a rich stew), an original song and … Continue reading →

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The Citadel unveils a new season of 10 shows. Here’s the 2024-2025 lineup

Posted on January 29, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shakespeare gets reimagined in two high-contrast productions in the upcoming $13 million 2024-2025 season unveiled by Citadel Theatre artistic director Daryl Cloran Monday night. Of the four musicals announced in the 10-show lineup at Edmonton’s biggest … Continue reading →

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Meet Paul-Ford Manguelle, the multi-talented newcomer who joins two veterans in The Drawer Boy at Shadow Theatre

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We’re here to get your history and give it back to you.” — The Drawer Boy In Michael Healey’s 1999 play The Drawer Boy, a naive young actor from a Toronto theatre company ventures into rural … Continue reading →

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Heart and hilarity: Made In Italy at the Citadel, a review

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There has to be a big table. That’s what Salvatore, the eminently hospitable patriarch of the Mantini clan, tells us at the outset of Made In Italy. And that’s what its creator and star Farren Timoteo … Continue reading →

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