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This year’s Sterling Award for outstanding contribution to Edmonton theatre will go to the late great Judy Unwin
At the start of the year we had very sad sad news in Edmonton theatre. With the untimely death, at 76, of Judy Unwin, we lost a bona fide arts pioneer, a public-spirited artist who played many roles in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Sterling Awards, Varscona Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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All things circus, a musical comedy, and a new play: Edmonton onstage this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your chance to run away and join the circus is at hand. Thanks to Firefly Theatre and Circus, we have a whole festival for all things circus. The Alberta Circus Arts Festival returns Thursday for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta Circus Arts Festival, Capitol Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Firefly Theatre and Circus, Fort Edmonton Park, Frostbite Circus, Gateway Theatre, LookUp theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts
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The season in Edmonton theatre, part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2022-2023 in Edmonton theatre (post-Fringe) was the season of … … a new home: Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton’s longest-running improv comedy, moved into spiffy, beautifully located, new place in Strathcona, the Exchange on 83rd Ave. … … Continue reading
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Tagged AuTash Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Gender? I Hardly Know Them, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Pyretic Productions, RISER 2023, Shadow Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The season in Edmonton theatre, part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2022-2023. It’s been a complicated season on Edmonton stages. That Destination Fringe last summer sold 95,000 tickets to shows was a tip-off that live theatre was gradually getting its mojo back. And in the fall, post-Fringe … Continue reading
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Tagged Amoris Projects, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Hit & Myth Productions, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Improvaganza is back, for the first time at the Exchange, Rapid Fire Theatre’s new home sweet home
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You can never quite know what will happen at Improvaganza. And that’s how it’s supposed to be. The improv talent from here, there, and everywhere arriving for the 2023 edition of Rapid Fire Theatre’s annual international … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Improvaganza, Rapid Fire Theatre
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Live and unscripted: the 76th Tony Awards at the United Palace Theater, 8 miles uptown from Broadway
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca History got made at the 76th Tony Awards Sunday night in an astonishing, gilt-lined vaudeville house. And, hey, it happened despite the usual sprinkling of winners thanking their agents (thankfully no mentioned their lawyer). Improv came … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway theatre, Edmonton theatre, Kimberly Akimbo, New York Theatre, Tom Stoppard, Tony Awards, United Palace Theatre
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Cosmic time-travelling into history: Black Alberta at Nextfest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It started with history: the story of Black civil rights in Alberta, and leading players in a real-life narrative of which Albertans are woefully ignorant. And from that writer/historian Bashir Mohamed has opened a door into … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta black history, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2023, Nextfest Arts Company, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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African mythology and the immigrant experience: meet the creator of Hyena’s Trail at Nextfest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For every hyena in the world there’s a witch. It’s a uneasy pairing that powers a new play premiering at Nextfest 2023. At the centre of Hyena’s Trail, by actor-turned-playwright Kijo Gatama, are dark, powerful, mischievous … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2023, Nextfest Arts Company, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network, U of A drama department
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