Tag Archives: L’UniThéâtre

A new (and all-Canadian) season at L’UniThéâtre launches with Le Palier

Posted on November 6, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the play that launches the new, all-Canadian season tonight at L’UniThéâtre, Alberta’s only professional francophone theatre company, an unlikely friendship blossoms, fast, in an unlikely place. As director Steve Jodoin explains, Le Palier opens with … Continue reading →

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Storytelling in the theatre: a long weekend on Edmonton stages

Posted on June 29, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A long weekend in Edmonton: four plays, four stories that demonstrate, in four very different ways, the possibilities of storytelling on a stage, in a theatre. •Michel(le), the season finale at L’UniThéâtre, from Vancouver’s Théâtre La … Continue reading →

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Lost dreams restored in theatre magic: Michel(le) at L’UniThéâtre

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Dramatic, tragic, eventful, and very singular.” That’s how Joey Lespérance describes the real-life story that inspired his first-ever solo play Michel(le). The L’Unithéâtre season finale opens Thursday at La Cité francophone (in French with English surtitles), … Continue reading →

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Embrace the kooky: Trout Stanley at L’UniThéâtre, a review

Posted on May 10, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is a kind of kooky mania — or is it frazzled euphoria? — about the captivatingly weird play that’s currently running, for the first time ever in French, at L’UniThéâtre. You couldn’t go wrong calling … Continue reading →

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Three musicals and a comedy: snow reason to stay home, the weekend onstage

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton, you have choices on stage this weekend, including a delightful and insightful comedy that sees into the complicated lives of teenage girls, and three musicals that land miles apart on the musical theatre spectrum  — … Continue reading →

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What’s up, Edmonton? Act II of the theatre season is about to begin

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lights up, Edmonton. Take your seats, friends; intermission is over. And Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. The tip-off? Next week, Farren Timoteo’s terrific (and much-travelled solo show Made In Italy returns … Continue reading →

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Fun (really!) with Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing, an inspired Theatre Yes 2-night production

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Well, THAT was fun!. A word that is only rarely (I need hardly remind you) applied to productions of Hamlet. The first night of The Play’s The Thing, Theatre Yes’s two-night production of Shakespeare’s longest, most … Continue reading →

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Bienvenue: a new artistic director and a new season for L’UniThéâtre

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m pretty stoked!” declares Steve Jodoin, the (perfectly bilingual) new artistic director of L’UniThéâtre, Edmonton’s only professional francophone theatre company. In these post-pandemic times he has the sense that the venerable company has emerged into the … Continue reading →

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Play time! Prospects to intrigue you in the new season on Edmonton stages

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Answer Is Fringe, the 42nd annual edition of our giant summer theatre bash, with its 114,000 or so tickets sold, was a sign. Theatre is getting its groove back, after three hard years that have … Continue reading →

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Art will prevail: a change of venue for L’UniThéâtre’s season finale

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If the last two years have taught us anything it’s that art will prevail. And so will Art, the, er, art-ful 1994 Yasmina Reza hit comedy that is  L’UniThéâtre’s season finale.  Last Friday night’s storm and … Continue reading →

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