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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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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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The year in Edmonton theatre: the 2023-24 Sterling Award nominations

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A “surreal theatre dance fantasia” that premiered as the centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival proved decisively the top choice of jurors as the 35th annual Sterling Awards nominations were announced Thursday at the Westbury Theatre. … Continue reading →

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Hints, signs, omens of spring: theatre possibilities this weekend

Posted on May 24, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the terrific new Conni Massing play Dead Letter, premiering at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre we meet a woman who’s desperate for meaning, obsessed by the unaccountable, hyper-alert to any small sign from the universe that … Continue reading →

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Onstage in Edmonton this weekend, choices! A survey

Posted on April 19, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your biggest problem this weekend in this theatre town is … choice. That, and the moment of truth for procrastinators. And the possibilities are high-contrast, to put it mildly, from companies of every size, aesthetic, and … Continue reading →

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