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2025, and live theatre as the prize human connector: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2025: What a crazy, scary year it’s been. The world seems impossibly fractious, incoherent, unrecognizable. Can anyone really say they feel at home there? But the full-throttle invasion of screens of every size by A.I. has … Continue reading
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Tagged best of theatre 2025, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatrete, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Workshop West Theatre
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A week of bounty in Edmonton theatre, a 12thnight survey
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a week of bounty in Edmonton theatre (your biggest problem is choice). Much-awaited new plays are premiering and so is a full-bodied multi-generational dance/theatre extravaganza. A gem of a new musical continues its run. Continuing … Continue reading
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Tagged Biederman Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mile Zero Dance, Persistent Myth Productions, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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‘A life to live, a death confronted’: Billy Bishop Goes To War, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Frequent flyers might think of the Toronto Island airport before the man. But the much-loved two-hander musical that Edmonton Repertory Theatre has chosen for its inaugural season returns to us another frequent flyer, a medal-bedecked World … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Biederman Theatre, Billy Bishop, Canadian World War I history, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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A very Canadian kind of hero. Billy Bishop Goes To War: a theatre classic is back, with elbows up
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a question that threads its way through our whole history, and feels especially up front, feet planted, elbows up, at the moment: What’s different about us Canadians anyhow? Billy Bishop Goes To War, the bona … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Mirror mirror on the wall … the holiday panto is back. Snow White at the Capitol Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Hello friends!” an extrovert fairy calls out to us, every time she arrives onstage. And every time we holler back, in unison as coached, “Best Fairy Ever!” Now there’s all-ages audience rapport for you. Yup, the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Christmas pantos, Edmonton Christmas Market, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Fred Penner
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And so it begins, the holiday show season: a new company returns the panto to the Capitol Theatre at Fort Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca People, lighten up. It’s a theatre town, my friends, and you are sliding inexorably into the season of the holiday show, of every stripe and persuasion. It launches officially this very week, with the return of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Edmonton Christmas Market, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, pantomimes
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