Tag Archives: Edmonton theatre

It’s a new season at Common Ground Arts! And it opens with Tiny Bear Jaws’ I Don’t Even Miss You

Posted on September 30, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “One of the strengths of Common Ground Arts is that we’re big enough to have institutional support, staff, a team, a board…. And small and scrappy enough that we’re malleable, to support the needs of whatever … Continue reading →

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All your questions answered: Edmonton theatre this weekend

Posted on September 25, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the week you can have your most persistent, long-standing questions answered from the stage. Here’s an introductory short-term small-scale answer to a question it may not have occurred to you to ask: where has … Continue reading →

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A friendship story, Ukrainian and Métis: Kohkom’s Babushka by playwright BFFs Lianna Makuch and Joleen Ballendine.

Posted on September 21, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When the co-creators of Kohkom’s Babushka, one Ukrainian and the other Métis, were 12 years old, they became best friends forever. Instantly inseparable. And that lasting friendship between Lianna Makuch and Joleen Ballendine is at the … Continue reading →

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The Ties That Bind: a new season at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre

Posted on September 14, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For their upcoming 48th season, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, devoted to the development and showcasing of the Canadian repertoire and its writers, will feature a trio of mainstage productions from veteran theatre artists with long and … Continue reading →

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‘Ya gotta spin to win’: Rumpelstiltskin, Alberta Musical Theatre. A review

Posted on September 13, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Ya gotta spin to win,” sings the be-sequinned hustler TV host (Jayden Leung) in the opening number of Rumpelstiltskin. And, hey, it turns out that if you’ve already got a good thing going, you gotta spin … Continue reading →

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A new musical for the mouthy red-haired orphan from Green Gables: Bridget Ryan’s OH, ANNE! at Theatre Network

Posted on September 12, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The original musical comedy that launches the new ‘Roxy Remixed’ season at Theatre Network this week has a heroine for our Moment: optimistic, fanciful, plucky, un-squelchable. Anne with an ‘e’, the mouthy red-haired orphan from P.E.I, … Continue reading →

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Charm (and 32 hits from the ’60s and ’70s): The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On, at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on September 5, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The frothy musical currently running at the Mayfield is one of those fizzy, light-headed entertainments that remind you what fun it can be to have an evening at the theatre ruled by charm. Charm and hit songs … Continue reading →

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It’s play time in Edmonton theatres: the new season

Posted on September 4, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey Edmonton, it’s time to come out and play! The new theatre season is starting. And it enters buoyed by cheering news from our grand-slam summer theatre festival: the 45th annual Fringe sold a heart-lifting 142,000 … Continue reading →

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SWAN? returns home, to the festival where it hatched, to celebrate its hundredth performance

Posted on August 27, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca SWAN? has flown the world.  Lauren Brady’s dark bouffon/ballet clown comedy has alighted at the world’s biggest fringe festivals, in Edinburgh and Adelaide, twice, and won awards from the High Commission of Canada and the Beaverbrook … Continue reading →

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It’s a record-breaker! The curtain comes down on Fringe Unforgettable, the 45th annual edition of our big crazy summer theatre festival

Posted on August 23, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca After 11 days and nights Fringe Unforgettable, the 45th annual edition of our big insomniac summer theatre binge, will exit the stage (all 38 of its stages, to be precise) Sunday night. And it will take … Continue reading →

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