Tag Archives: Edmonton theatre

Ready for your close-up Mr. Shakespeare? The Freewill Shakespeare Festival in a vintage spiegeltent this summer

Posted on August 3, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This summer, when lovestruck Romeo says “what light from yonder window breaks?” the light will break from stained glass windows and bounce off bevelled mirrors. Starting this week at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, as announced on … Continue reading →

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What I did on my summer holiday (in NYC)

Posted on July 24, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca NEW YORK — Funny how every conversational fragment that free-floats floats your way when you’re in summer holiday mode, walking and people-listening in Central Park in the morning, sounds like it comes out of a show. New … Continue reading →

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And now for something completely different: Edmonton artists in a vintage spiegeltent at K-Days

Posted on July 23, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Magic, as magician Billy Kidd tells us, lives in surprises, in the “not knowing what’s going to happen next.” Now, here’s something unexpected (in a good way). Of all the things you might conceivably be doing … Continue reading →

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Travel, adventure, discovery: Teatro Live! announces a new season

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Teatro Live turns 42 next season with a four-comedy line-up that returns to one of the company’s most popular, widely travelled, plays. And the theatrical journey inside and out- of Stewart Lemoine’s 1997 Pith! is germane … Continue reading →

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A musical for Edmonton, set in a golden entertainment age: Everybody Goes To Mitzi’s is back at Teatro

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Fourteen years ago, four young Edmonton theatre artists, emerging talents in their mid-20s, got recruited by Teatro La Quindicina, now Teatro Live!, to do something together, something they’d never done before. Jocelyn Ahlf, Andrew MacDonald-Smith, Ryan … Continue reading →

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The Genie and the spirit of showbiz: Disney’s Aladdin at the Jube, a review

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Come for the hummus, stay for the floor show,” advises the outsized sprite in Arabian Nights, the opening number of Disney’s Aladdin. He pretty much nails the touring Broadway family musical that’s arrived at the Jube … Continue reading →

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Fun with Jane: Austentatious at Walterale

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Can a theatre town get enough Austen? Is there an Austen city limit? The people have spoken: the answer is No. Mieko Ouchi directed a cavorting stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at the Citadel this … Continue reading →

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Let’s get Found: the festival of unexpected encounters with art and artists is back

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Surprise! You’re about to be Found. Yes, the festival of of unexpected encounters with art and artists is back, starting Thursday, for a 12th edition in Old Strathcona. And at Found 2023 you could find yourself … Continue reading →

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Two hauntings on Edmonton stages this week

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Get haunted, at an Edmonton theatre (a couple of options). •The sassy burlesque artists of Send in the Girls and House of Hush, have never shied away from uncovering stories from history, then uncorseting them, for … Continue reading →

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Some things I learned at the Sterlings

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here are some things I learned at the sold-out 35th annual Sterling Awards bash Monday night, celebrating the season just past in Edmonton theatre. Written by April Banigan with co-hosts Matt Schuurman and Sue Goberdhan, directed by … Continue reading →

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