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Merry, merry … further suggestions for your holiday entertainment this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the week you can get Santa to say Merry Christmas to you in a language of your choice — for $4.38 (including fees). It’s also the week you can go backstage in the notoriously … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Ballet Edmonton, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Festival Players, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shumka, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Prospero, Varscona Theatre, Whizgiggling Productions
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Look up! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s an opera singer on the roof: drive-in opera and other experiments from Edmonton Opera
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The thrill of live: it’s undeniable, yes, both for artists and their audiences who thrive on connection, the charge of closeness, of being part of a gathering. If we hadn’t fully realized it before, by default … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Jubilee Auditorium, Tim Yakimec
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When the curtain doesn’t open: strange nights without theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a strange feeling. I’ve spent most of my adult life encouraging people to go to live theatre. Exhorting people to share the excitement, the fun, the surprise, the laughter and the tears, the shared gasp, … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bottom Line Productions, Broadway, Die-Nasty, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Northern Light Theatre, Steppenwolf Theater, The Social Distancing Festival, Time Out New York, Varscona Theatre
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Nun but the brave: for your theatre habit, a grand assortment on E-town stages this weekes this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What is it with all the nuns on Edmonton stages this week? It’s a bumper crop, second to nun. In The Candidate at the Citadel, you will see two different heavenly examples, (in a sense … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Firefly Theatre and Circus, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Mayfield Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Script Salon
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Looking back: Edmonton theatre in 2017
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shakespeare In Love, the playful, sumptuously romantic opening gambit of Daryl Cloran’s first season as the Citadel’s new artistic director, took us into the world of 17th century London theatre. Crazy deadlines, fraught rehearsals, fragile egos, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broken Toys Theatre, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Hadestown, Hope and Hell Theatre, Impossible Mongoose, L'UniThéâtre, MacEwan University, MadFandango, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Theatre Network, Triffo Theatre, What It Is Theatre, Workshop West
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All for love: thoughts on Les Feluettes, Edmonton Opera’s season opener
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Love and death, jealousy and revenge, crime and punishment, repression and liberation, visions of fiery hell and fantastical apparitions who float down into the New World from the Old … there is nothing tentative, nothing cautious … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Jubilee Auditorium, Les Feluettes, Lilies, Michel Marc Bouchard, Opéra de Montréal, Quebec theatre, Victoria Opera
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Prying opera out of its standard choices: Opera Nuova’s 2017 festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The performance venue is unusual. The stagecraft is unusual. And there’s this: I think we can safely call the Opera Nuova production of Eugene Onegin (opening Thursday at the west end Oasis Centre) a moving experience. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Carousel, Cunning Little Vixen, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Eugene Onegin, Opera Nuova, Rodgers and Hammerstein
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