Tag Archives: Mayfield Dinner Theatre

Nostalgia for a lost age: Forever Plaid at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In their one review ever, in The Wiltsburg Times Chronicle, a nameless writer delivered the opinion that The Plaids’ sound “is to modern music what Formica is to marble.” It is a measure of their infinite … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Nostalgia for a lost age: Forever Plaid at the Mayfield, a review

Just in time: on Edmonton stages this weekend

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca •Last chance this weekend for the Theatre Network production of Hannah Moscovitch’s fascinating Infinity — a smart, accessible and strangely affecting play about time — the shortage of it, the meaning of it, the misuse of … Continue reading →

Posted in Features, News/Views | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Just in time: on Edmonton stages this weekend

All Shook Up shakes up the jukebox at the Mayfield: a review

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Finally. A jukebox musical with an actual jukebox. And it’s busted. Which should tell you something about the sassy, light-hearted self-awareness of All Shook Up, currently at the Mayfield cavorting its way through the Elvis canon … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on All Shook Up shakes up the jukebox at the Mayfield: a review

Onstage: a weekend theatre update

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your weekend could include a musical. There’s a couple to choose from, and though both are a challenge (for very different reasons) for the form, they’re at opposite ends of the musical spectrum •One of the … Continue reading →

Posted in News/Views | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Onstage: a weekend theatre update

Three musicals and two plays: a new season announced at the Mayfield

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the course of next season on the Mayfield Dinner Theatre stage, announced this week by artistic director Van Wilmott, audiences will find themselves watching one of the great contemporary farces, as well as a hit … Continue reading →

Posted in News/Views | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Three musicals and two plays: a new season announced at the Mayfield

The Ladies Foursome: the short game goes long. A review

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hitting a tiny ball with a skinny stick? A long long way into the distance into a hole you can’t even see?  To the non-golfer especially, the whole point of that particularly maddening game — alluded … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on The Ladies Foursome: the short game goes long. A review

Looking back: Edmonton theatre in 2017

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shakespeare In Love, the playful, sumptuously romantic opening gambit of Daryl Cloran’s first season as the Citadel’s new artistic  director, took us into the world of 17th century London theatre. Crazy deadlines, fraught rehearsals, fragile egos, … Continue reading →

Posted in Features | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Looking back: Edmonton theatre in 2017

Bill and Ted are back in the ’80s, rockin at the Mayfield

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The scene: Tuesday night, and a packed house at the Mayfield. The last time we met them — hey, last year around this time at the Mayfield —  Bill and Ted were erupting from a time-travelling … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Bill and Ted are back in the ’80s, rockin at the Mayfield

It’s beginning to look a lot like … and other weekend possibilities on Edmonton stages

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We’ll start with things of a wintry, possibly Yule-ish, tinge, and their antidotes. •If you’ve already had it up to here with the fa-la-la’s even though you’re still eating crappy leftover Halloween candy … If the … Continue reading →

Posted in Features, Previews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on It’s beginning to look a lot like … and other weekend possibilities on Edmonton stages

Soul royalty at the Mayfield: a review of Soul Sistas

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Holy smoke! Or as we say in the prairies, Holeeeee! If you haven’t seen the audacious concert show currently running — also dancing, jumping, rocking — at the Mayfield, you’re missing out (as I discovered just … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Soul royalty at the Mayfield: a review of Soul Sistas