Tag Archives: Edmonton Fringe Theatre

Did Cinderella’s Ugly Stepsisters get a bum rap? They’re out to prove history wrong in The Spinsters

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s all about The Dress.” Birth of a show. It’s 2017, and a man walks six feet behind two strong, tall (funny) women as the three theatre artists stumble home from the Winnipeg Fringe beer tent … Continue reading →

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What’s up, Edmonton? Act II of the theatre season is about to begin

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lights up, Edmonton. Take your seats, friends; intermission is over. And Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. The tip-off? Next week, Farren Timoteo’s terrific (and much-travelled solo show Made In Italy returns … Continue reading →

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2023: The year in Edmonton theatre, part 2

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2023 (part 2). Here’s a small assortment (in no particular order) of highlights — moments, performances, bright ideas, experiences — of the year of live theatre on Edmonton stages. Home sweet home. 2023 was the year.… … Continue reading →

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Get your festive on, release your inner elf: a selection of holiday shows on E-town stages this week

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Like holiday traditions, shows at this time of year come in every size and weight, and volume of fa-la-la-la-la. And if you’ve been resolutely festive-resistant so far, this is a week on E-town stages where you … 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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Excitement in a theatre town: you have to be there. Theatre possibilities this week

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca More proof, as if you needed any, that Edmonton is a theatre town: A week of exciting possibilities for your nights out. A Quebec thriller. A musical about the struggle to write a musical about the … Continue reading →

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The collision of worlds and mythologies: Makram Ayache brings The Hooves Belonged To The Deer home to Edmonton

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Five years ago Edmonton audiences saw an explosive new play about an immigrant kid, Arab and gay, negotiating the conflicting calls of cultures and generations, trying to find his way into a new life. That was … Continue reading →

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Crescendo!, Shadow Theatre’s first-ever musical, opens the 30th anniversary season

Posted on October 16, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the last three decades Shadow Theatre has produced plays of every size, shape, tone, and sensibility, often contemporary but not always. Shakespeare, Chekhov, Noel Coward have Shadow credits; so do American big-shots like Paula Vogel, … Continue reading →

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Fun (really!) with Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing, an inspired Theatre Yes 2-night production

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Well, THAT was fun!. A word that is only rarely (I need hardly remind you) applied to productions of Hamlet. The first night of The Play’s The Thing, Theatre Yes’s two-night production of Shakespeare’s longest, most … Continue reading →

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Play time! Prospects to intrigue you in the new season on Edmonton stages

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Answer Is Fringe, the 42nd annual edition of our giant summer theatre bash, with its 114,000 or so tickets sold, was a sign. Theatre is getting its groove back, after three hard years that have … Continue reading →

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