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Finding a new way at Found, the festival of unexpected encounters
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If ever there was a moment in history when artists and audiences have had to find each other in new, experimental, reimagined ways, this has got to be it, my stir-crazy friends. And, hey, Edmonton has … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Dwennimmen, Edmonton arts, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Le Fixe Theatre, Story City
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Let the wild rumpus start: Fringe tickets go on sale at noon today
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca And what a wild rumpus it will be…. There’s really no stopping Where The Wild Things Fringe. Tickets go on sale today at noon for the monster 38th annual edition of our summer theatre extravaganza (Aug. … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2019, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe 2019, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Edmonton theatre, fringe festivals
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And on my summer holidays … I went to the Winnipeg Fringe
This is just a little note to tell you that I’m about to start posting 12thnight.ca reviews of shows I saw on my excursion last month to the country’s second-largest Fringe festival, in Winnipeg. They’re 16 of the shows you … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2017
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe, Fringe reviews, Winnipeg Fringe
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Edmonton Fringe 2017: a selection of hit return engagements
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca True, the unpredictability factor is built into the 220-show edition of the Edmonton Fringe that opens Thursday. But hits do have a way of showing up again. Will they be back in buffed-up, revised, re-muscled, enhanced … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2017
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blindside, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Erik de Waal, Falling Awake, Jem Rolls, Leo Szilard, Nobody's Business Theatre, Ragmop, Red-Headed Stepchild, Stéphanie Morin-Robert, Teatro La Quindicina, The Exquisite Hour
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Edmonton Fringe 2017: what to see at our big summer theatre bash
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So… what looks good? Yes, my friends, the Fringe, Edmonton’s favourite summer festival, is back Thursday, in the town where the continent’s fringe phenom began. A Midsummer Night’s Fringe, the 11 day-and- night 36th annual edition … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2017
Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Midsummer Night's Fringe, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Festival
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Losing yourself at Found, the festival of art in unexpected places
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Unexpected things happen when you take theatre out of theatres. And we have a festival for that. The Found Festival returns Thursday to Old Strathcona for a sixth annual weekend of strange and surprising encounters, up … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Old Strathcona, performance art, site-specific theatre, slam poetry
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The fine art of the spontaneous: Improvaganza invites the world
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca True fact about the big wide world of improv comedy: it’s smaller than you think. It’s the eve of an international comedy festival that will demonstrate this, in ways you didn’t see coming. Rapid … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broke Gravy, CBC Radio's The Irrelevant Show, Citadel Club, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, IGLU Theatre, improv comedy, K&M, One Lions, Rapid Fire Theatre, Speechless, Zeidler Hall
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“A very Nextfest sort of play”: Meet two creators
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “What would be the craziest thing that could happen next?” That’s the question — a very Nextfest sort of question — that playwright Ashleigh Hicks asked herself, moment by moment, as she was writing Garnish, premiering … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged Ashleigh Hicks, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, In Arms Collective, Nextfest 2017, Stuart McDougall, Theatre Network
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Get splashed by the new wave of artists: Nextfest is back Thursday
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “OMG, it’s the best part of the year!” — Stuart McDougall of In Arms Collective, creators of Nest Hold that thought. It’s the eve of the innovative arts festival that tosses the leading question “so, what’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Ellen Chorley, L'UniThéâtre, Nextfest, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network
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