Tag Archives: Edmonton Fringe

Theatre Network’s best-of-Fringe ‘February Festival Weekend’: the lineup

Posted on February 18, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Theatre Network is throwing a bash, a five-show February Festival Weekend, at the Roxy. Thursday through Sunday they present a quintet of productions — four of them from last summer’s Fringe — on the Nancy Power … Continue reading →

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Falling in love with a show: Countries Shaped Like Stars, in a new production at Fringe Theatre. A preview

Posted on February 17, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Nearly 15 years ago, in the chaotic excitement of reviewing Fringe shows, I found myself in a nondescript church basement in Strathcona: musty church basement smell, sullen lighting, inauspicious wooden church chairs. What happened after that … Continue reading →

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What’s Calgary got that we don’t have? Under the spell of the Dream Machine, at the High Performance Rodeo

Posted on January 19, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A question for this theatre town of ours: what has Calgary got that we don’t have? A: One Yellow Rabbit, an influential multi-disciplinary troupe of brainy incautious artistic renegades of the experimental stripe, with their own … Continue reading →

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A sensational trial with a contemporary reverb: The Cult of the Clitoris, a Fringe review

Posted on August 17, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

The Cult of the Clitoris (Stage 21, The Sanctuary Stage at Holy Trinity Anglican Church) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In The Cult of the Clitoris, from Empress of Blandings Productions, playwright Celia Taylor steps up to the drama, the absurdities, … Continue reading →

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Fringe Full of Stars: further thoughts from 12thnight on how to get intrigued, and what to see

Posted on August 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Starting Thursday you have the fun of launching yourself into the galaxy of Fringe Full of Stars, the 44th annual edition of the oldest and biggest of the continent’s Fringes (and the prototype for the rest). … Continue reading →

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Fringe Full Of Stars, the 44th annual edition of our big summer theatre bash. Tickets go on sale today

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your star has risen, fellow Fringe travellers. It’s August, and Fringe Full Of Stars is yours for the exploring. Tickets and passes go on sale today at 10 a.m. (in person) and noon (online) for the … Continue reading →

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The rats are back in a new show! Rat Academy 2: Gnaw and Order at Nextfest, a preview

Posted on June 8, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a way to have yourself an existential crisis (or at least an emotional breakdown): be a rat, in Alberta. When we last met the stars of Rat Academy, a pair of rats on the lam … Continue reading →

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Pith! The return of a signature Teatro comedy and Jana O’Connor’s ‘dream role’

Posted on February 8, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca Jana O’Connor has been hearing stories in the rehearsal room. Stories which live on in the Teatro Live! archives, of the memorably frantic, complicated journeys to opening nights of Teatro’s most travelled, most often revived, arguably … Continue reading →

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A one-off Fringe Revue Friday at the Westbury

Posted on December 6, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Fringe goes vaudeville, in its own original way, Friday for a one-night revue. Devised by Fringe artistic director Murray Utas, who has a vaudevillian streak in his theatrical DNA (and coiffure), witness the Late-Night Cabaret … Continue reading →

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Improv comes to the Mayfield for the first time, and it’s the best there is: Gordon’s Big Bald Head in Clusterflick

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something historic, and riotously funny, is happening at the Mayfield. For the first time ever at this adventurous dinner theatre, a blockbuster movie is premiering on the Mayfield stage. In itself this pretty much nails high-grade … Continue reading →

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