-
Search
Patreon
Categories
Tag Archives: National Theatre School
We’ve lost a giant: celebrating the life of Thomas Peacocke, the small-town kid who changed Canadian theatre
Last fall, theatre here and across the country sustained a huge blow with the passing ot Tom Peacocke at 89. It still seems hard to believe. In him the much diluted term “legacy” is restored to its full lustre and … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged Canadian theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Genie Awards, National Theatre School, Studio Theatre, Torches Theatre, U of A drama department
Comments Off on We’ve lost a giant: celebrating the life of Thomas Peacocke, the small-town kid who changed Canadian theatre
Stick-handling success: Kenneth Brown looks back in Life After Life After Hockey, at the Fringe
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca He couldn’t have realized it at the time. But In 1985 at the three-year-old Edmonton Fringe, Kenneth Brown created something that would turn his life upside down (and put its stamp on Edmonton’s summer theatre extravaganza … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Fringe 2023, Previews
Tagged Edmonton Fringe 2023, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, hockey plays, MacEwan University theatre arts, National Theatre School, THEATrePUBLIC
Comments Off on Stick-handling success: Kenneth Brown looks back in Life After Life After Hockey, at the Fringe
How do you change people’s minds? In She/They Nextfest playwright Madi May wants to know
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The thorny question of how you change people’s minds is at the heart of a new comedy about serious things, premiering on the Nextfest 2023 mainstage. In She/They, a famed feminist author, cancelled and doxed, and … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2023, Edmonton theatre, National Theatre School, Nextfest 2023, Nextfest Arts Company, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
Comments Off on How do you change people’s minds? In She/They Nextfest playwright Madi May wants to know
We’ve lost a giant: Thomas Peacocke, the small-town kid who changed Canadian theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A giant is gone. With the passing of Thomas Peacocke last week at 89, we’ve lost at one go an actor/director/teacher/mentor/administrator/advocate who has played a leading, vivid role in building and shaping theatre here in this … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Genie Awards, National Theatre School, Studio Theatre, Thomas Peacocke, Torches Theatre, U of A drama department
Comments Off on We’ve lost a giant: Thomas Peacocke, the small-town kid who changed Canadian theatre
New faces in theatre: meet actor Rochelle Laplante
They’re young, adaptable, and creative. And as theatre returns in this late-pandemic grind, and the doors open to live audiences, we’ll be seeing the work of these theatre artists light up, and transform, the scene here, on- and backstage. Meet … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged Bright Young Things, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Empress of Blandings Productions, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, National Theatre School, Nextfest, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre, Victoria School of the Arts
Comments Off on New faces in theatre: meet actor Rochelle Laplante
12thNight.ca 