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Gordon’s Big Bald Head infiltrates movie history in Good Head, at the Grindstone
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They are smart. And they are funny. But there is nothing cautious, or predictable, or even sane about the entertainment proposition that the deluxe improv troupe Gordon’s Big Bald Head offers the world. They own a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Gordon's Big Bald Head, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, improv comedy, Mark Meer, Ron Pederson
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A Telethon kicks off the strange summer when the Edmonton Fringe went online
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Everything that’s happening is changing the landscape…. Let’s make our own destiny!” — Edmonton Fringe director Murray Utas The Fringe, Edmonton’s beloved August giant of a theatre festival, and a game-changer for this town in every … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Revue, FringeLiveStream, Mind of a Snail, Murray Utas, The Fringe That Never Was
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Hungry for theatre? Lodestar Theatre delivers … to your own back yard
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. In this unpredictable and isolating moment, which has sent live theatre into lockdown exile on screens, Lodestar Theatre is its own creative resistance movement. The rep company, originally from Liverpool … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Lodestar Theatre Company, Max Rubin, U of A drama department
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Celebrating an Edmonton theatre season like no other: the Sterling Awards (online), led by The Color Purple and Titus Bouffonius
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton theatre took its annual awards gala onto the digital stage Monday night for the first time ever, to celebrate a theatre season like no other. And a musical that chronicles the empowering four-decade journey of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2020 Sterling Awards, Alberta Workers' Health Centre, Blarney Productions, Bustle & Beast Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Theatre Network, You Are Here Theatre
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Home Again: a journey to the desert in podcast form at Nextfest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was when the cast was rehearsing the kissing scene in Home Again that playwright/director Calla Wright knew, irrevocably, that Nextfest 2020 had created its own kooky creative wonderland. For one thing Home Again, which runs … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Citadel Young Acting Company, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2020, Nextfest Arts Company
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“We’re back to who we are!” Murray Utas launches Fringe Revue
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you were in any doubt before that, the moment in mid-April the mighty Edmonton Fringe pulled the plug on its 39th annual edition in August, was a capital-M Moment of confirmation that the world had … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Westbury Theatre
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“Where are you?” Tracks, an online experiment, takes us home with the cast.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A preamble to Tracks, the online theatre that’s happening this week on your own screen…. Ever since going out to theatre, my way of life for forever, abruptly ended a thousand years ago (or 10 weeks, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Beth Dart, digital theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Mac Brock, Zoom theatre
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Sandy Moser: mask-maker to the stars
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Live theatre gave Sandy Moser the big-M Moment that turned everything around for her. And she’s returning the favour, though she’d never put it that way in a million years. “What would I be doing otherwise?” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Calgary theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
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New faces in theatre: six bright newcomers. The series continues with triple-threat Bella King
They’re young. They shine brightly. And their talents are already lighting up the Edmonton theatre scene. 12thnight talked to six starry and sought-after up-and-comers, artists whose work, on- and backstage, will have a big impact on theatre here when the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, MacEwan University theatre arts, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Straight Edge Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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