Tag Archives: Edmonton theatre

Dance inspired by stage design: Mile Zero Dance’s season-opener is an experimental cabaret

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a sassy what-if? streak in the Mile Zero Dance DNA. And you’ll see it in action Saturday night in a new way when the new MZD digital season, De-Program, comes to life on Zoom. What … Continue reading →

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Impossible? EDMONten, a showcase of full-length 10-minute plays

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If we didn’t know it before, we do now, after six months of theatre trying hard and being ingenious on screen, size isn’t everything. (And as for duration, haven’t you asked yourself what’s happened to your … Continue reading →

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Playing With Fire: the Mayfield straps on the blades, live, with the Theo Fleury story

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The show that skates (really!) onto the Mayfield Dinner Theatre stage next week — live — is the story of a small-town prairie boy from a neglectful and chaotic family, who makes a big life-changing discovery. … Continue reading →

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And back to the live! a horizon-expanding experiment at the Citadel

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On Friday March 13 I went to the theatre — the Varscona, to see Shadow Theatre’s production of Heisenberg, starring Amber Borotsik and Glenn Nelson. I haven’t stepped into a theatre since. Until Saturday night. Which … Continue reading →

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Heart + Soul: EPCOR’s good news for the performing arts

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Every theatre company (and performing arts organization) in this live theatre town has sustained a devastating blow in the sudden, and continuing, shutdown of the industry six months ago. In a bleak landscape for live performance, … Continue reading →

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The Free Willies: the ‘sounds and sweet airs’ of travelling troubadours

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Some time before the end of the month, it will happen. You’ll be in a park. Or a community playground. At a farmer’s market. Or chilling on a front deck. And suddenly, a little troupe of … Continue reading →

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Fringe FOMO: House of Hush burlesque goes live

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Take it off! No, wait…. In the age of COVID, burlesque, a teasing vaudeville involving the playful progressive doffing of apparel, can remove just about everything — everything, that is, but the mask.  Masked showgirls: now, … Continue reading →

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And back at the castle: a radio play version of Guys in Disguise’s Dragula

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It sounds like a sublime punchline: a drag show, in all its be-wigged glam-frocked glory, as a radio play? True, there’s a certain captivating perversity about the Guys in Disguise revival of their hit Fringe show … Continue reading →

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Signs of life: live theatre is coming back, with cautious first steps

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca And they’re back! Very cautiously, of course, experimentally, a little tentatively, with ultra-sanitized jazz hands. And not full-blast: nary a large-scale musical in sight, needless to say. But live theatre is starting to be back … … Continue reading →

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The might-have-been hits home: it’s Fringe Eve in Edmonton

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For months I knew it would come. The weirdest week of a weird summer. The week the Fringe doesn’t happen. It’s a might-have-been that leaves us face to face with the strangest, most unrecognizable of vistas … Continue reading →

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