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And so it begins, the holiday show season: a new company returns the panto to the Capitol Theatre at Fort Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca People, lighten up. It’s a theatre town, my friends, and you are sliding inexorably into the season of the holiday show, of every stripe and persuasion. It launches officially this very week, with the return of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Edmonton Christmas Market, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, pantomimes
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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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A new season, a new mission, all new work: Thou Art Here in 2023
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, alternative Shakespeare, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Good Women Dance, immersive theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
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An update on E-town holiday shows: overcoming grinch-itude and getting festive, part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lighten up everyone. If stress and/or seasonal ennui have overtaken your festive spirit and malled it beyond recognition, it’s obvious that you need a holiday show booster. And, like sweaters with antlers and shameless pom-poms on … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Gateway Theatre, Girl Brain, Rapid Fire Theatre, Theatre Network, Walterdale Theatre, Whizgiggling Productions
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A mash-up of holiday classics (with ghosts) at Fort Edmonton: It’s A Wonderful Christmas Carol
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m not the man I was….” No kidding. The flinty Mr. Scrooge gives off new sparks in the panto-radio play mash-up that opens at the Capitol Theatre in Fort Edmonton Park Thursday, as part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Edmonton Christmas Market, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Kids in the Hall
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Theatres are haunted places. A ghostly meet-and-greet in Dead Centre of Town XIII
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Imagine, if you will, a place where where live people are haunted by imaginary people. Where they inhabit the lives of others, and stories come to life when the lights are out. A place of strange … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Capitol Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Dead Centre of Town, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre history, Fort Edmonton Park, Garneau Theatre, Princess Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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Surprise! Finding yourself at Found 2022: the festival of art in unexpected places
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At Found 2022 you could find yourself … following a story into a fort in the river valley. You could find yourself in a hidden nook of Old Strathcona, in a park, in a garbage enclosure … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Found Festival 2022, Old Strathcona, Popcorn Galaxies, Thou Art Here Theatre
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The experimental spirit lives on in Edmonton theatre, live and in unusual hybrids
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Calling the pandemic an “obstacle” to live theatre, or maybe a “challenge,” is a bit like saying COVID is the flu. The pandemic has had a devastating effect on an art whose raison d’être is the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Girl Brain, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Fox Den Collective, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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