Tag Archives: Mayfield Dinner Theatre

‘It’s all coming back to me now’: The 90s at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on November 28, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s all coming back, it’s all coming back to me now.” True, Celine Dion wasn’t singing about a decade at the top of The  90s, the show now singing and dancing (and changing costumes and hair) … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia in sight and sound: The Simon & Garfunkel Story opens the Mayfield season, a review

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What is conjured for us at the (newly renovated) Mayfield showroom, in The Simon & Garfunkel Story, is the signature harmonious blend of the last century’s most celebrated duo. There is something witty about starting a … Continue reading →

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Rediscovering the self you’ve lost (with sun and sea): Shirley Valentine at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the Mayfield, you have a chance to see a vintage show get a new lease on life — just like its heroine.  Shirley Valentine, a 1986 solo play by the Liverpool playwright Willy Russell, is … Continue reading →

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Lots to see on Edmonton stages this week, a small survey of the landscape

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, Edmonton. You have choices for your evenings out at the theatre this week: two Canadian comedies, a wicked Brit satire, a multi-disciplinary arts festival, a stage adaptation of a much-loved novel, a prairie love story, … Continue reading →

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Bummed out in Buffalo: will they? won’t they? The struggles of the blue-collar male in The Full Monty at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The guys we meet in The Full Monty are up against it. They’re unemployed steel workers in rustbelt Buffalo. And, as one points out, in the opening musical number “it’s a long night when you’re scrap…. … Continue reading →

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A big week at the Mayfield: The Full Monty, a new artistic director, a new season

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Kick off your Sunday shoes. It’s a big week at the Mayfield. For one thing, the theatre’s 50th anniversary season continues with a Broadway musical hit, blue of collar, warm of heart. The Full Monty, opening … Continue reading →

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2024: remembering the year in Edmonton theatre, part 2

Posted on December 23, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2024 (part 2). Here’s a small assortment of highlights — performances, moments, scenes, ideas — in the year of live theatre in Edmonton. But first, the year’s saddest news: as the current 2024-2025 season began, the … Continue reading →

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Nashville Music City: the 50th anniversary season opener at the Mayfield does its storytelling in music. A review

Posted on September 8, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Nashville: Music City, which launches the 50th anniversary season at the Mayfield, begins and ends with Will the Circle Be Unbroken. It’s a thought that counts in any half-century birthday celebration in the world of theatre. … Continue reading →

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Edmonton has play dates: here’s a dozen intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s time to play. After a year of continuing struggle, with rising production costs and dwindling funding, theatre companies and artists are finding their way back to stages large and small. Our mighty summer Fringe, as … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia at the lake: On Golden Pond at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on July 1, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “How does it feel to turn eighty?” a 15-year-old kid demands of Norman Thayer, the curmudgeonly retired English prof/ octogenarian wiseacre in On Golden Pond. “Twice as bad as turning 40,” he says without missing a … Continue reading →

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