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The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part two

Posted on July 25, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a tumultuous season, Edmonton theatre got shaken and stirred: big changes, big news,  big anniversaries celebrated, experiments, a homecoming…. Start with that. After years in exile, the Freewill Shakespeare Festival came home to Heritage Amphitheatre … Continue reading →

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The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part one

Posted on July 24, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Life of Pi, which launched the Citadel’s 60th anniversary season, the Indian teenager who finally washes ashore after an ocean-crossing with a Royal Bengal tiger, gets grilled by skeptics about his amazing story of survival. … Continue reading →

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And the 2025-2026 Sterling Awards go to …

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two high-contrast fairy tales — one a small-scale, whimsical musical love story with Fringe origins and the other a large-scale, fizzy 20-year-old Broadway musical —  proved the top choice of jurors at the 37th annual Sterling … Continue reading →

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Finding Found Fest, a weekend excursion into the Edmonton wetlands

Posted on July 14, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I put on my water wings just in case, and found myself this weekend at Found, a plucky and ingenious summer festival of art in unexpected places. In its 15 summers in Edmonton they’ve proven themselves … Continue reading →

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Getting the band back together. Cardiac Theatre is back! KaldrSaga: a new queer, old Norse cabaret, a preview

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Coming together to tell stories (and hear them). It’s what people do; it’s what people have always done; it’s what people will keep doing. Call that urge a tradition. Or a compulsion. At heart, Cardiac Theatre’s  … Continue reading →

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