Tag Archives: improv comedy

‘Musicians gone wild’: the Mayfield’s upcoming five-show season

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The air of creative nostalgia floats over the upcoming 2023-2024 season at the Mayfield Theatre announced by artistic director Van Wilmott Tuesday. The five-show line-up capitalizes on the strength, stylistic versatility, and expertise of the theatre’s … Continue reading →

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Lighting the Bonfire: Rapid Fire’s wildest festival is back, and it’s live

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For two years, the members of the Rapid Fire Theatre ensemble have been storing up their wildest, coolest, most ridiculously challenging new ideas in improv. And that, my friends, is a lot of pent-up crazy. RFT’s … Continue reading →

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Making Mischief (and laughter) en route to Neverland: Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Citadel

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Funny how people laugh out loud (and maybe wince a little) when you casually mention the title of the production that arrives on and above the Citadel mainstage starting  Thursday. Peter Pan Goes Wrong, after all, … Continue reading →

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Rapid Fire Theatre: back live, and back on their home turf in Old Strathcona

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Rapid Fire Theatre has a new home for the new year. The agile Edmonton improv company, 41 seasons old (but young at heart), de-camped this week from downtown and moved back to their traditional stomping ground, … Continue reading →

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Rapid Fire Theatre is back live, across the river

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Flexibility!” declares Matt Schuurman. “It’s all about being flexible, in a space that’s flexible….” He’s talking about improv, to be sure, a theatrically acrobatic subject on which he is an expert practitioner, mentor, producer. But the … Continue reading →

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Off the cuff and on the spot: Gordon’s Big Bald Head makes (up) a movie

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, tonight I was in the virtual audience at the Grindstone, i.e. the invisible sweatpants brigade online at home. And I was watching an amazingly dexterous improv duo onstage do, off the cuff, something that is … Continue reading →

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Gordon’s Big Bald Head infiltrates movie history in Good Head, at the Grindstone

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They are smart. And they are funny. But there is nothing cautious, or predictable, or even sane about the entertainment proposition that the deluxe improv troupe Gordon’s Big Bald Head offers the world. They own a … Continue reading →

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The Desperate Izmores: portrait of a marriage in crisis. Don’t you dare laugh.

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca She’s bored — with a chaser of exasperation and an adenoidal voice that makes your fillings hurt. He’s a sad-sack sulker, a dimwit who’d  be a poster boy for morosity (if that ever becomes an actual … Continue reading →

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In a lather at Big Little Lake: the 27th annual Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Funny how a charming resort village like Big Little Lake, where the  well-toned meet the well-heeled over white wine spritzers, can turn suddenly … well, sinister. Murder has a way of doing that. It populates the … Continue reading →

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Best in the biz: Ron & Wayne, a guest 12thnight Fringe review by Alan Kellogg

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

Ron & Wayne Venue 2 (Big Rock Backstage Theatre) By Alan Kellogg Many yuks, hoots etc. here from two absolute masters of improv comedy with impeccable credentials, Ron Pederson and Wayne Jones. In classic fashion, they ask for a patron … Continue reading →

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