Tag Archives: Edmonton improv

The magic of … stuff and a lovable show about that: Big Stuff at the Citadel, a review

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s magic in … stuff. In the way it accumulates, for one thing. In the way it shrugs off mere utility like lint off a lapel. In the emotional alchemy that transforms junk — old pens, … Continue reading →

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Hilarity and horror: ghost stories from the dark vault of our history, improvised. Ha-Ha-Haunting returns to Rapid Fire

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Embrace your ghosts, Edmonton. This is the season when the frontier between the living and the dead is at its flimsiest, and spirits are raving (and lining up for artisan beer at the bar. And Rapid … Continue reading →

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New plays, revivals, festivals, cabarets, improv, genre switcheroos: we survey an intriguing week in Edmonton theatre

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A big opening by a premier Canadian playwright, an improbable steal by big-budget theatre, a powerful verbatim-theatre production, a musical by a new-ish company — and another two-festival week on Edmonton stages, one devoted to the body … 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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The improbable magic of live: Flop! the improvised musical, a little review

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Calling an improvised musical Flop! is like calling a plastic surgery practice Oops! or an aerial circus Thud!. It’s irresistible; you can’t not look. But then, it’s clearly impossible: making up an entire musical, with an … Continue reading →

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Wait, who’d be crazy enough to improvise a musical? Meet the creators of Flop!

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’re onstage at the new Rapid Fire Theatre Exchange, looking at each other and the audience. They were supposed to have written the new musical they’re supposed to be performing for 10 nights (it says so … Continue reading →

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Love takes us backstage at a kids’ TV show: Die-Nasty lathers up for a new season of Monday night episodes

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Suds alert: We’re backstage at DNTV, a television studio where tensions are on red alert and the real drama happens in this age of streaming.  TV executives, actors both human and puppet, camera people, script writers … Continue reading →

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Four decades of playing without a script: the Rapid Fire Theatre story is now a book

Posted on July 22, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The thing you’ve just got to love about Rapid Fire Theatre is that everything that makes you anxious (if not out and out crazy) in life is delightful to them. It’s their high-octane fuel, their motivation, … Continue reading →

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A home of their own, in the entertainment ‘hood: Rapid Fire Theatre at 41

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’ve dreamed it for years. Now, at age 41, Rapid Fire Theatre finally has a home of their own. And it’s in the ‘hood that’s their  traditional home base, Old Strathcona.  Edmonton’s premier improv company is … Continue reading →

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Rapid Fire Theatre: back live, and back on their home turf in Old Strathcona

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Rapid Fire Theatre has a new home for the new year. The agile Edmonton improv company, 41 seasons old (but young at heart), de-camped this week from downtown and moved back to their traditional stomping ground, … Continue reading →

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