Tag Archives: Edmonton Fringe Theatre

A Fringe Full Of Stars: the upcoming 44th annual Edmonton Fringe Festival has a theme, and shows

Posted on June 13, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Where theatre meets astronomy (by starlight): the upcoming 44th annual Edmonton Fringe has its theme. A Fringe Full of Stars, this year’s edition of Edmonton’s mighty summer theatre festival, running Aug. 14 to 24, was christened … Continue reading →

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A horse named Horse, a jockey named Jacques: Kole Durnford’s Horseplay premieres at Workshop West

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the new Canadian play that premieres this week, on the gallop at Workshop West, we meet two best friends, as close as brothers, closer maybe. At heart these two love nothing better than hanging out … Continue reading →

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The rise of RISER: a new works festival from Common Ground

Posted on May 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca RISER has risen. Again, and in a new, expanded form. Edmonton, where theatre is the leading arts industry, was always the right place for the visionary national initiative — launched by Toronto’s Why Not Theatre — … Continue reading →

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Lots to see on Edmonton stages this week, a small survey of the landscape

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, Edmonton. You have choices for your evenings out at the theatre this week: two Canadian comedies, a wicked Brit satire, a multi-disciplinary arts festival, a stage adaptation of a much-loved novel, a prairie love story, … Continue reading →

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“Is anyone out there?” En route to love, the long way round: Alphabet Line at Fringe Theatre. A review

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “My name is Duncan J Hayes. I live in Yonker on the Alphabet Line. Is anyone out there?” The recurring refrain in Alphabet Line is a call out into the wild blue yonder of the Saskatchewan … Continue reading →

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Crossing the great rural-urban prairie frontier: AJ Hrooshkin’s Alphabet Line, a preview

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There can be nothing quite like the vast isolating distances of the prairies for locating a play about disconnection — between rural and urban, farm and city, booking learning and blue-collar life experience. And the playwright … Continue reading →

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Bodies in motion: Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival is back with a 20th anniversary edition

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Its birth, 20 years ago, was dance. And gradually, Azimuth Theatre’s nimble, well-named Expanse Festival, returning Friday for an anniversary edition, has expanded the frontiers and expectations of dance to embrace “movement arts” and “body-based performance.” … Continue reading →

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Hey, wanna see a show? Look at your choices on Edmonton stages this week!

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a week to expand your horizons at the theatre….  Don’t even think about staying home. Your choices are many: Broadway musicals of every size and personality, improv, a clown show that takes … Continue reading →

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War as the human constant through time: After The Trojan Women, a review

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The centrepiece of the stage is a gory altarpiece that looks a red tree upended, or maybe a giant artery wrenched out by its roots. Alison Yanota’s striking design for After The Trojan Women cuts to … Continue reading →

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Meet a man with a grievance, and the actor who plays him: Cody Porter in Angry Alan at Northern Light

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “For the first time in a really long time I feel like someone is speaking to me in a language which I completely understand … something which makes me feel good about myself.” Roger in Angry … Continue reading →

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