Tag Archives: Edmonton theatre

You’ve got the music in you: a joyful new Twelfth Night at Freewill Shakespeare Festival

Posted on August 12, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “O spirit of love! How quick and fresh art thou,” declares a love-struck Duke, glancing heavenward in the early moments of Twelfth Night, the first of the two alternating plays (along with Romeo and Juliet) in … Continue reading →

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To all of your questions, The Answer is Fringe: tickets go on sale today at noon

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You are now perfectly positioned to answer for yourself the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. And unlike Deep Thought (in Douglas Adams’ trippy and comical Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy), it won’t take … Continue reading →

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‘I had to find my own way in’: Amanda Goldberg directs Twelfth Night at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What country, friends, is this? (I, ii, Twelfth Night) Like Viola, the heroine of the Shakespeare comedy in this year’s Freewill Shakespeare Festival, who steps onto the shore of a strange new world, director Amanda Goldberg … Continue reading →

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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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