Tag Archives: Mayfield Dinner Theatre

Conjuring Patsy in concert, live at the Mayfield: A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline. A review.

Posted on September 18, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home.” The singing invitation comes from Miss Virginia Patterson Hensley of Winchester, Virginia, whose early-career name change is part of the show to follow. She … Continue reading →

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Capturing the Patsy Cline essence: Sara-Jeanne Hosie is back at the Mayfield

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Sixteen years ago, an award-winning musical theatre triple threat from the West Coast got offered an unusually specific starring role. One that would involve surprising low notes and some yodelling. How’d you like to be our … Continue reading →

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Mamma Mia! here we go again: live theatre is back at the Mayfield

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It sounds like the blueprint for a door-slammer farce to be sure (the kind that the Mayfield Dinner Theatre propels across its stage from time to time). After closing and re-opening and re-closing the doors a … Continue reading →

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Looking forward to 2021 in Edmonton theatre

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know what you’re thinking.… The world has been so chaotic and unpredictable this past year that you’d have to be crazy to ink in a calendar of upcoming theatre events.      But one thing … Continue reading →

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Listen to the music: Keep Calm and Rock On at the Mayfield. A review.

Posted on November 11, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “What the people need is a way to make ‘em smile,” declared astute social commentators The Doobie Brothers in Listen to the Music in 1972. Hear hear. The Mayfield takes this sage counsel to heart by … Continue reading →

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Doing musical theatre in 2020? It’s an intricate challenge: the making of Keep Calm and Rock On at the Mayfield

Posted on November 6, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You’ve got to be ingenious to make live theatre. And no one (sane) ever said it was slam-dunk easy money. But bringing a musical live to the theatre stage in late 2020 in the middle of … Continue reading →

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The experimental spirit lives on in Edmonton theatre, live and in unusual hybrids

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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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Hockey night in Edmonton: Playing With Fire re-opens the Mayfield. A review.

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With the production that reopened the Mayfield Dinner theatre for real-live audiences this week (for a six-week run), hockey doesn’t just pirouette around theatre. No, there’s a bone-rattling full bodycheck into the boards. And there are … Continue reading →

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Playing With Fire: the Mayfield straps on the blades, live, with the Theo Fleury story

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The show that skates (really!) onto the Mayfield Dinner Theatre stage next week — live — is the story of a small-town prairie boy from a neglectful and chaotic family, who makes a big life-changing discovery. … Continue reading →

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Signs of life: live theatre is coming back, with cautious first steps

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca And they’re back! Very cautiously, of course, experimentally, a little tentatively, with ultra-sanitized jazz hands. And not full-blast: nary a large-scale musical in sight, needless to say. But live theatre is starting to be back … … Continue reading →

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