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Dead Centre of Town unearths our dark civic secrets
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We have a checkered past, my friends. You could say we’re haunted. For a dozen years now, in the season of ghostly chills, Catch The Keys Productions has been taking us on location, into the boneyard … Continue reading
Happy Valentine’s champagne and a show: where to take your date to celebrate
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Of all the high holidays, the one that shares a name with a variety of massacres and martyrdoms is coming up. It’s also the ultimate date night. So in order to celebrate romance, there are a … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Chinook Series, Citadel Club, Citadel Theatre, Damien Atkins, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Farren Timoteo, Fort Edmonton Park, Girl Brain, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Send in the Girls Burlesque, Studio Theatre, Theatre Network
Abandon your grinch, all ye who enter here: holiday shows on E-town stages this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Give yourself a holiday treat this week. This week on E-town stages, you can feel the holiday spirit in a live radio play (It’s A Wonderful Life), a Christmas panto (Little Red Riding Hood), or a … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Blunt Entertainment, Capitol Theatre, Christmas pantos, Christmas shows, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Grindstone Theatre, It's A Wonderful Life, live radio plays, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network, Theatre of the New Heart, Whizgiggling Productions
Defy gravity at your peril: Dead Centre Of Town XI at Fort Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The principle of “what goes up must come down” as applied to air travel isn’t an entirely comforting thought. Defying gravity might have been a blast for Peter Pan but, trust me, it doesn’t always work … Continue reading
The fear of flying, and the return of Dead Centre of Town
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ladies and gentlemen, we will be boarding tonight by zone. The dead centre zone. For 11 years now, Catch the Keys Productions has been leading us on nocturnal Halloween expeditions into the macabre, digging in the … Continue reading
Unlacing Shakespeare’s women: the Bard goes burlesque at the Capitol Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Think of them as the ultimate theatre buffs: reveals are their speciality. Send In The Girls Burlesque comes to the stage of Fort Edmonton Park’s vintage Capitol Theatre Friday and Saturday, in honour of Alberta Culture … Continue reading
A season on Edmonton stages: a look back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening scene of Jabberwocky, the latest from the Old Trout Puppet Workshop (at Theatre Network this past season), a drum roll announces the parting of a red velvet theatre curtain. Which opens to reveal … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Atlas Theatre, Bright Young Things, Canadian Stage, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre season, Fort Edmonton Park, Kill Your Television Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Lewis Carroll, Northern Light Theatre, Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Plain Jane Theatre, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
Holiday traditions in every size and shape
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton theatre knows that holiday traditions come in every size and shape, layer on layer, reimagined or reinvented. Have a gander at these: PANTO AND POST-PANTO PANTO At Fort Edmonton, starting tonight in the vintage Capitol … Continue reading
Scare yourself, run away to the circus: Dead Centre of Town X, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Even before the fog rolls in at Fort Edmonton Park , an abandoned midway on an autumn night is an eerie sight. An empty skeleton of a ferris wheel, rides without seats, boardwalks across empty fields, a … Continue reading
