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John Ullyatt takes up the suitcase and the iconic mantle in Death of a Salesman, at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Sixty seasons ago, a worn-out travelling salesman feeling his mileage and dispossessed from the “smile and a shoe shine” world he’s always known arrived on the stage of a former Sally Ann citadel in downtown Edmonton. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Arthur Miller, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Willy Loman
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Why do we keep making war anyhow? The addiction to rage: An Iliad at Shadow Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Every time I sing this song, I hope it’s the last time,” says the man before us, a travelling storyteller with a gift of the gab, who’s arrived on crutches (not a prop, Michael Peng has … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, anti-war plays, Edmonton theatre, Homer, Shadow Theatre, The Iliad, Varscona Theatre
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Doomed to tell and re-tell the story of the Trojan War: Michael Peng stars as the Poet in An Iliad, at Shadow Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A traveller arrives onstage Thursday at the Varscona Theatre, suitcase in hand, with a story to tell. He’s been telling it for, oh, about three thousand years. “And every time he tells it he hopes he … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, anti-war plays, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, The Iliad, Varscona Theatre
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What’s Calgary got that we don’t have? Under the spell of the Dream Machine, at the High Performance Rodeo
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A question for this theatre town of ours: what has Calgary got that we don’t have? A: One Yellow Rabbit, an influential multi-disciplinary troupe of brainy incautious artistic renegades of the experimental stripe, with their own … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Calgary theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, High Performance Rodeo, One Yellow Rabbit
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Those Belle Époque bohemians are the party people: Moulin Rouge The Musical, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Those Belle Époque bohemians sure know how to party. Your retinas will be dazzled the moment you enter the theatre. And that, mes amis, isn’t going to stop, or even pause, for the next two-and-a-half hours … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Moulin Rouge The Musical
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Intermission’s over! Act II of the theatre season, and 10 shows too intriguing to miss
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Intermission’s over, and Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. Your nights out at the theatre are in progress. Rehearsals are happening in theatres across town. At Shadow (opening Jan. 22) Michael Peng … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway Across Canada, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, L'UniThéâtre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro Live!, U of A Studio Theatre, Uniform Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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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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‘Twas the nights before Christmas and all through the house(s)… a big opening night in Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca ’Twas the nights before Christmas, and all through the house…. Shows. Yes, it’s a big opening night tonight, gift-wrapped, on Edmonton stages: •Kris Kringle is the guest of honour through Tuesday at the vintage Capitol Theatre … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Christmas shows, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, Grindstone Theatre, House of Hush Burlesque, LightningCloud Productions, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shumka, Theatre Network
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A grand-scale folk ballet fantasy for the season: meet the stars of ‘Canada’s Ukrainian Nutcracker by Shumka’
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are shows built into our holiday DNA. The frozen-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge stars in one of them, a classic ghost story cum tale of last-minute redemption (A Christmas Carol, now running at the Citadel). The other … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton dance, Edmonton theatre, Shumka, The Nutcracker, Ukrainian dance
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