Tag Archives: Edmonton theatre

Opening the doors into the past: Ecos, a multi-generational dance/theatre piece from Common Ground. A review

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening scene of Ecos, a woman arrives onstage to build, piece by piece, an altar of tiny objects — bottles, a wine glass, flowers, a little cake, picture frames, salt, a dead plant.… A funeral … Continue reading →

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How tough do you have to be? Surviving trauma: Tough Guy gets a visceral premiere production, a review

Posted on November 1, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Tough Guy, an exhilarating new play by Hayley Moorhouse, a queer up-and-coming filmmaker tries to justify turning their camera on their friends, survivors of a shooting in queer nightclub mere days before, and reeling from … Continue reading →

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An activist crime caper? Nicole Moeller’s Wildcat at Workshop West, a review

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Timeliness? Irony? The world provides, and sometimes theatre just nails it. There’s something downright uncanny about the arrival onstage of Wildcat in a week that will live in infamy in Alberta labour history. Workers’ rights, injustice, resistance … Continue reading →

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A week of bounty in Edmonton theatre, a 12thnight survey

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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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Tragedy and queer joy: Hayley Moorhouse’s Tough Guy, a preview

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Do you remember where you were when you heard …? There are moments in life when you know your answer will be instantly available in your memory, forever. Hayley Moorhouse, whose new play Tough Guy premieres Thursday … Continue reading →

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‘A life to live, a death confronted’: Billy Bishop Goes To War, a review

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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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The magic of … stuff and a lovable show about that: Big Stuff at the Citadel, a review

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s magic in … stuff. In the way it accumulates, for one thing. In the way it shrugs off mere utility like lint off a lapel. In the emotional alchemy that transforms junk — old pens, … Continue reading →

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‘A major breach of technical security at the theatre’ cancels opening weekend of Workshop West’s Wildcat

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you’re excited to see the much-anticipated premiere of the new Nicole Moeller crime caper Wildcat at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, which was to have opened tonight, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. The production’s … Continue reading →

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A very Canadian kind of hero. Billy Bishop Goes To War: a theatre classic is back, with elbows up

Posted on October 22, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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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Set now, in Edmonton, in the political landscape of Alberta: Wildcat, Nicole Moeller’s new crime caper at Workshop West

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca FUN. In a world of anxiety and dread, it’s an elusive concept, but a seductive one, says playwright Nicole Moeller unspooling time back to her inspiration for Wildcat. Her new crime caper premieres Friday with a … Continue reading →

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