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Boy Trouble: a new play about growing up the hard way, queer and without role models
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The teenage characters we meet in Boy Trouble are growing up the hard way: queer and on the Prairies. Coming-of-age, the universal struggle for identity, is harder times 100 when you’re figuring out your sexuality for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Edmonton Fringe Spotlight Series, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest
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Coming of age in a warming world: meet Dayna Lea Hoffmann, the star of A Hundred Words For Snow
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It doesn’t feel that long ago since I was 15,” says Dayna Lea Hoffmann. “I look back and it was nearly 10 years ago….” “This is me kissing my youth goodbye,” she says at the advanced … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre
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Can you spell p-a-n-d-e-m-o-n-i-u-m? Grindstone Theatre is doing The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At Grindstone Theatre they launch festivals, one after the other, indoors or out — devoted to sketch or stand-up, improv or disco, even mural painting. They celebrate Pride and Fringe in a big way, and all … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway musicals, Campus St.-Jean, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre
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SOUND OFF, the groundbreaking Deaf theatre fest, dances back for a seventh annual edition
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Across the country, and the continent, there isn’t anything quite like the groundbreaker of a festival, born in this fair theatre town, that’s back for a seventh annual edition Tuesday. SOUND OFF, Canada’s unique and influential … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Dance Novella, deaf theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, La Cité francophone, Mile Zero Dance, Rapid Fire Theatre, roots2reach, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, The Invisible Practice, Theatresports, VibraFusion Lab, Zuppa Theatre Co.
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How the West was won: Gender? I Hardly Know Them at Expanse Fest, a little review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As their own song goes (you’ll have to imagine the ukulele accompaniment and the cheery tone), “Alberta’s tough for prairie queers.” But somehow, amazingly, they haven’t let this place, harsh, marginalizing, and right-sliding as it can … Continue reading
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Tagged Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2023, Gender? I Hardly Know Them, Tiny Bear Jaws
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Expanse Fest is back to celebrate the body in motion
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The 10-day movement arts festival that returns Thursday for an 19th annual edition starts with the body in motion. All bodies in motion. And then it expands. That’s Expanse, the nimble, elasticized (and well-named) festival of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton dance, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2023, The OKO, Tiny Bear Jaws
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On a journey through the universe: The Space Between Stars headlines SkirtsAfire 2023
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You — you alone will have stars as no one else has them.” — The Little Prince, Saint-Exupéry And the space between them is yours to claim, too, as theatre artist Christine Lesiak has discovered in … Continue reading
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Tagged clown theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Play The Fool Festival, SkirtsAfire Festival 2023, Small Matters Theatre
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A new season, a new mission, all new work: Thou Art Here in 2023
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A dozen years ago, a couple of emerging Edmonton theatre artists in love with Shakespeare started a theatre collective that, light on its feet, would take them along with their favourite playwright to the people — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, alternative Shakespeare, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Good Women Dance, immersive theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
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Judy Unwin: curious, feisty, fun, and tirelessly passionate about theatre. A big loss for Edmonton theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Hi. It’s me, Judy. Listen, I’m at the theatre; I’ll meet you there….” She was outspoken, opinionated, generous, and funny — an artist herself who stood up fiercely and in all kinds of ways for live … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Varscona Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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A coming-of-age thriller: Freaky Green Eyes at Fringe Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening image of Freaky Green Eyes is a girl poised on a diving board, about to take the plunge. In Emma Houghton’s solo show, an artful stage adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s 2003 powerfully dark … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Joyce Carol Oates, Punctuate! Theatre
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