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‘It’s all coming back to me now’: The 90s at the Mayfield, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s all coming back, it’s all coming back to me now.” True, Celine Dion wasn’t singing about a decade at the top of The 90s, the show now singing and dancing (and changing costumes and hair) … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 90s music, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, musical revues
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Buddies in tap dance: meet the co-stars of Northern Light’s new holiday comedy, How Patty and Joanne Won High Gold …
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s something irresistible (and appealingly non-utilitarian) about tap dancing. Patty and Joanne, the two hopeful hoofers who sign up for an adult beginners tap class in Trevor Schmidt’s new holiday comedy, feel it. And so do … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton holiday shows, Edmonton theatre, Lunchbox Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
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There’ll be much mistletoe-ing and hearts will be glowing … the festive season begins on Edmonton stages
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Some day soon we all will be together….” This week, actually, the festive season onstage can now officially begin. •Ebenezer Scrooge (John Ullyatt), a misanthrope with a frozen heart will stride briskly onto the Citadel’s Maclab … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Girl Brain, Grindstone Theatre, LightningCloud Productions, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Paper Crown Theatre, Puddle of Mud, Rapid Fire Theatre, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre, Vohon Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
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Vohon Ukrainian Dance Ensemble brings folklore to life in epic dance theatre. Svitlo: Discover the Light Within, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ukrainian folklore, the mythology of a rich and ancient culture, comes to life, on a grand scale, in the show that arrives on the Jube stage Nov. 28. Svitlo: Discover The Light Within is the work … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton dance, Edmonton theatre, Gerdan Theatre, Ukrainian dance, Vohan Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
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A test of comic timing and ingenuity: The 39 Steps launches Farren Timoteo’s artistic directorship at Teatro Live!, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It seems exactly right, inspired really, that Farren Timoteo should launch his Teatro Live! artistic directorship of the comedy theatre company with a show that turns a 1935 Hitchcock spy thriller into a manically high-speed, hilariously … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Hitchcock movies, John Buchan, spy thrillers, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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‘The perfectly imperfect holiday’: Vinyl Cafe The Musical premieres at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Vinyl Cafe The Musical, the new Canadian holiday musical premiering at the Citadel in a Daryl Cloran production, is a cool idea bravely built on a double challenge. On one hand it’s an homage to a … Continue reading
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‘I’m starting with the man in the mirror’: MJ moonwalks the Jube stage, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca MJ, the touring Broadway bio-musical that has arrived on the Jube stage, is a curiosity in every way. Like its star, and subject, Michael Jackson, arguably the 20th century’s greatest and most influential entertainer, a singer/dancer … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Michael Jackson, MJ, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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Ray: a little tribute to a great theatre lover
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With the passing of Ray Christenson this month, at 93, Edmonton theatre and its community of artists have lost someone essential to what they do, how they create — and, especially, why. The live theatre isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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A new (and all-Canadian) season at L’UniThéâtre launches with Le Palier
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the play that launches the new, all-Canadian season tonight at L’UniThéâtre, Alberta’s only professional francophone theatre company, an unlikely friendship blossoms, fast, in an unlikely place. As director Steve Jodoin explains, Le Palier opens with … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton francophone theatre, Edmonton theatre, Kleine Compagnie, L'UniThéâtre, La Cité francophone, Satellite Theatre, Théâtre La Seizième
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Vinyl Cafe: The Musical. Stuart McLean’s beloved characters come to life in the Citadel’s new holiday musical, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the new Canadian holiday musical that premieres next week at the Citadel, characters we know well do something they’ve never done before. They step out of the radio and off the page — and, for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, CBC Radio, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Stuart McLean, The Vinyl Cafe
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