Tag Archives: Edmonton theatre

Backyard curtain time: Theatre Yes brings it home with The Doorstep Plays

Posted on May 20, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The ancient contract between The People and The Theatre gets an intriguing clause, and the personal touch, in the latest venture by the ever-adventurous Theatre Yes.  With The Doorstep Plays, they bring the theatre to you … Continue reading →

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Horseplay, an irresistible new play about a bond beyond the traces, at Workshop West. A review

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a bright buoyant sparkle to Horseplay, the funny, dreamy, heart-breaker of a season-ender at Workshop West. It’s a new play, about things like friendship and ambition, success and sacrifice, by a young theatre artist whose … Continue reading →

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The self in a bind: the RISER New Works Festival opens with Calla Wright’s Binding

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca New this year the RISER New Works Festival began its weekend of performances and workshops last night with a work-in-progress production of a challenging and playful one-human many-puppet show. Destined for Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival in … Continue reading →

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A horse named Horse, a jockey named Jacques: Kole Durnford’s Horseplay premieres at Workshop West

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the new Canadian play that premieres this week, on the gallop at Workshop West, we meet two best friends, as close as brothers, closer maybe. At heart these two love nothing better than hanging out … Continue reading →

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Hot theatre choices on Edmonton stages for your long weekend, a 12thnight survey

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You don’t lack for choices in Edmonton theatre as the long weekend approaches (Queen Victoria wouldn’t have it any other way). Consider some of your options: the premiere of a new Canadian play with a whimsical … Continue reading →

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The Doorstep Plays: showtime for emerging playwrights in your own backyard

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Make yourself at home, people; you’re already at the theatre. All you have to do is step outside your door, and it’s showtime in your own personal venue. Theatre Yes, specialists in theatre that happens in … Continue reading →

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Once more unto the park in 2026? Freewill Shakespeare Festival launches a ‘save the fest’ campaign

Posted on May 12, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For 35 summers the Freewill Shakespeare Festival has been banishing the winters of our discontent (not to mention, bringing on joy and mirth, and generally inspiring a holiday humour). Summer Shakespeare à la Freewill is a … Continue reading →

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The rise of RISER: a new works festival from Common Ground

Posted on May 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca RISER has risen. Again, and in a new, expanded form. Edmonton, where theatre is the leading arts industry, was always the right place for the visionary national initiative — launched by Toronto’s Why Not Theatre — … Continue reading →

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A theatrical index to a beloved novel: Little Women at the Citadel, a review

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The March siblings, growing up in genteel poverty in Civil War America, might well be literature’s most famous sister act since Jane Austen’s Bennets. And ever since they stepped out from the pages of Louisa May … Continue reading →

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Shadow Theatre announces a four-show upcoming season, launched by a new Canadian musical

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre’s upcoming four-production 32nd season will launch with the premiere of a much-anticipated new Canadian musical. In Morningside Road, by the remarkably versatile Edmonton artists Mhairi Berg (book) and Simon Abbott (music), a girl connects … Continue reading →

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