Tag Archives: Edmonton theatre

Locked out by a union? Whaaaat? Allan Morgan’s one-man show I Walked The Line comes to Chinook Series 2020

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I could not believe it! I could not get my head around it!” declares Allan Morgan. The veteran Vancouver-based actor, whose conversation rolls in exclamation points, is known to Edmonton audiences since he was the touring … Continue reading →

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“Is anybody waving back at me?” Dear Evan Hansen at the Jube. A review.

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What does it feel like to live in a buzzing world of cross-hatched ever-escalating and fading images and phrases, a metastasizing, translucent tangle of entries, posts, links, tags, photos? Where the music of the spheres (not … Continue reading →

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From beyond the grave, a ghostly contact and a paranormal thriller: Séance at Fort Edmonton

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a clammy thought for a winter night: the boundary between this world and the one beyond the grave is porous.    In Séance, the paranormal thriller that comes to the vintage Capitol Theatre at Fort … Continue reading →

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Playing the game: culturecapital, that is, the custom-made trading card game about the performing arts industry in Alberta

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two brainy Vancouver-based performance artists with an appetite for games have custom-made one for us — an original collectible trading card game about the performing arts industry in Alberta. Welcome to culturecapital, by the team of … Continue reading →

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Stunning, strongly sung, compellingly theatrical: The Invisible at Catalyst. A review.

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In The Invisible – Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare, an Allied team of World War II super-warriors are recruited and trained, each with a specialty in the stealth warrior skill set. And then they’re unleashed behind enemy … Continue reading →

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The quest for happiness, one little item at a time. A review of Every Brilliant Thing, starring John Ullyatt, at the Citadel

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This will seem a wintry, back-handed way to start a review. But there are many reasons in advance to dread Every Brilliant Thing. Not so much because the dark subject of death by suicide is involved … Continue reading →

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“It’s what happens when you say Yes!” Feel the breeze at the 2020 Chinook Series

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Chinook “is what happens when you say Yes!” laughs Vanessa Sabourin. She’s talking about the cutting-edge curated performance series that skips as lightly across artistic disciplines as the surprising winter breeze with the built-in warming trend. … Continue reading →

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What makes life worth living? Every Brilliant Thing makes a list, and star John Ullyatt takes you through it

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca He’s a mainstage leading man with character actor instincts. We’ve seen him clamour fearlessly through the audience, as the tarnished extrovert MC in Cabaret. Or talk to us directly as the stage manager in Burning Bluebeard. … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare gets a Cree cosmology re-fit: Pawâkan Macbeth arrives for Chinook

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Feel the breeze. Chinook, the resource-sharing multi-disciplinary series devoted to melting our preconceptions and expanding our experience of live performance and creation, is at hand. It’s a measure of creative vision (and chutzpah) that the 2020 … Continue reading →

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Catalyst’s new musical takes us into the girls’ club of elite secret agents. Meet the creators of The Invisible

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Espionage: Upstagers and exhibitionists need not apply.  In the long-awaited new Catalyst musical that finally gets its Edmonton debut Friday on the Maclab stage, we infiltrate a shadowy, high-risk world of wartime spies where the job … Continue reading →

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