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What’s on at Another F!*#@$G Festival at Theatre Network? Hey, Jesus and Shakespeare will be there
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Yes, Edmonton, Another F!*#@$G Festival is coming at you. Find the festivities — multi-disciplinary, adult, contemporary — at Theatre Network, in their beautiful new Roxy on 124th St. starting Tuesday And here’s big-shot validation: Shakespeare and … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital City Burlesque, Cutis Trent, Dammitammy Productions, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, House of Hush Burlesque, Larry Louie, Marv 'N Berry, Nextfest, Ryan Parker, The Daisy Theatre, The Pansy Craze, The Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Theatre Network
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Wait, there’s more…. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Stay tuned; face forward. There’s more! Intermission’s over, my friends, and Act II of the Edmonton theatre season is about to begin. Freaky Green Eyes, Emma Houghton’s original adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novel, premieres … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Ground Zero Productions, Invisible Practice, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, RISER Edmonton, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Creation and destruction: the story of an artist in Stone and Soil, at Nextfest. Meet playwright Gabby Bernard
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s not random chance that the role Gabby Bernard wrote for herself in her first full-length solo play is an artist character. It’s a sign of the age. After all, theatre artists have had two years … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest, Nextfest Arts Company, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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Two-Headed/ Half-Hearted: sisterly bonding in a unique new musical at Northern Light Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Sisters. You can’t live with ‘em and you can’t live without ‘em. In the uniquely demanding new musical that premieres Friday, the finale of Northern Light Theatre’s 46th season, you will meet a pair of sisters … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, conjoined twins, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
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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
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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
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2021: the year in Edmonton theatre, part two
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2021 was the year a mystery box, gift-wrapped in silver with a Do Not Open warning, arrived at the house. At showtime three days later, it turned out to contain cues for a play — no, … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged Alberta Musical Theatre, AZ-MAP, Azimuth Theatre, Bright Young Things, Citadel Theatre, Die-Nasty, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, EPCOR Heart + Soul, Grindstone Comedy Theatre, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, RISER, Teatro La Quindicina, The Plain Jane Theatre Company, Thou Art Here Theatre, Vrscona Theatre
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Transformations: what would it take to change the world? Catalyst Theatre enlisted three artists to ask the question
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “When you sign ‘new’ it means ‘to grow’.” — Chris Dodd, The Transformers: Regrowth Can something positive, something transforming emerge from a year of devastation? To imagine a better future for the world, who better to consult … Continue reading
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Tagged #NotYourInspiration, 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, CRIPSiE, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance Collective, Mile Zero Dance, Nextfest, Punctuate! Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival, Tamarra Lessard, The National Transformations Project, The Transformers
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Looking forward to 2021 in Edmonton theatre
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Roxy Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2020: a year like no other in Edmonton theatre (part 1)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2020: the year the laws of probability bent so far out of shape they snapped. Along with satire, futurist dystopian fantasies ceded pride of place to … reality. Every definition of live theatre was up against … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Fringe FOMO: House of Hush burlesque goes live
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Take it off! No, wait…. In the age of COVID, burlesque, a teasing vaudeville involving the playful progressive doffing of apparel, can remove just about everything — everything, that is, but the mask. Masked showgirls: now, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, burlesque, Edmonton theatre, Garneau Theatre, House of Hush Burlesque, Metro Cinema, Nextfest, Send in the Girls
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