Tag Archives: Edmonton theatre

Now we know what we’ve been missing: fun. Ronnie Burkett’s Daisy Theatre is back at Theatre Network with Little Willy

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was one of those nights out in the theatre that make you know what you’ve been missing. Fun. Surprise. A feeling you’d have to call wonder — when you wake up the next morning and … Continue reading →

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Behind the red door: a Forever Home for Rapid Fire Theatre

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A Forever Home is for dreaming in. For feeling you have a place in the world, imagining your potential, getting creative.  At 42, Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton’s premier improv company and its longest running, is experienced … Continue reading →

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A week of many choices on Edmonton stages of every shape and size

Posted on February 7, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A crazy week in Edmonton theatre is underway. (So don’t go trying to land a stage from which to deliver your own innovative modern dance movement memoir; they’re all occupied.)  •At the Citadel, the much postponed … Continue reading →

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What’s on at Another F!*#@$G Festival at Theatre Network? Hey, Jesus and Shakespeare will be there

Posted on February 6, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Yes, Edmonton, Another F!*#@$G Festival is coming at you. Find the festivities — multi-disciplinary, adult, contemporary — at Theatre Network, in their beautiful new Roxy on 124th St. starting Tuesday And here’s big-shot validation: Shakespeare and … Continue reading →

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A new season, a new mission, all new work: Thou Art Here in 2023

Posted on February 6, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A dozen years ago, a couple of emerging Edmonton theatre artists in love with Shakespeare started a theatre collective that, light on its feet, would take them along with their favourite playwright to the people — … Continue reading →

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The feel-anxious comedy of First Date, at the Mayfield. A review

Posted on February 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Are you ever gonna find The One?” wonders the rousing opening number of First Date, the funny, sweetly unassuming little romantic comedy musical that opened Friday at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre. A chorus tots up rather … Continue reading →

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Little Willy: the great marionettist Ronnie Burkett is back, with the raucous Daisy Theatre ensemble, and Shakespeare

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ronnie Burkett is back.  Call it a reunion, or maybe a homecoming. The show that opens Wednesday at the Roxy for four performances marks the return to this theatre town, and to Theatre Network, of a … Continue reading →

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Collecting souls: where’s the job satisfaction? After Faust, the opening show in RISER Edmonton’s 2023 series. A review

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It sounds like an OK gig. And you can argue that aspirational clients, like Dr. Faustus, get what they deserve when they sign away their souls for unlimited knowledge, power, worldly pleasure, and the 24/7 services … Continue reading →

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Unsung: Tales From The Front Line, living portraits of the health care people who risked everything to keep us safe. A review

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What just happened here? That leading question is the raison d’être of the “performance installation” currently running at Workshop West. In the ongoing COVID pandemic,  frontline healthcare workers have risked everything to do their jobs keeping … Continue reading →

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The Citadel announces its upcoming season of nine shows: here’s the lineup

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Opportunities for people to make theatre part of their lives again!” That’s the mantra under which Citadel Theatre artistic director Daryl Cloran unveiled the upcoming $13 million 2023-2024 lineup Monday night at Edmonton’s largest playhouse.  “Our … Continue reading →

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