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& Juliet, & more: Broadway Across Canada announces a new season of musicals

Posted on February 27, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opener in the five-production 2026-2027 touring lineup announced this week by Broadway Across Canada is a hit jukebox romantic comedy musical with a witty, and joyful, premise. C’mon, haven’t you always wondered what would happen … Continue reading →

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‘I’m starting with the man in the mirror’: MJ moonwalks the Jube stage, a review

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca MJ, the touring Broadway bio-musical that has arrived on the Jube stage, is a curiosity in every way. Like its star, and subject, Michael Jackson, arguably the 20th century’s greatest and most influential entertainer, a singer/dancer … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Rock! Come From Away comes from away, back to the Jube

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Come From Away, the homegrown Canadian musical Broadway hit that travels the world on a jet stream of raves, major awards and sold-out runs, has come from away, again. It lands at Jube for the third … Continue reading →

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Back-combing the ’60s: Hairspray at the Jube, a review

Posted on March 27, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something has happened to the light-hold flexible Hairspray we’ve always known. It’s gone Ultra-Clutch. In a world of chronic downsizing — of prospects, budgets, the polar ice cap … — there’s something reassuring, in theory, about … Continue reading →

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A thrilling and beautiful musical testimonial to what art and artists are all about: Hadestown at the Jube, a review

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The musical/ folk opera that returns to Edmonton in the thrilling touring Broadway production onstage at the Jube this week will take you to Hell and back. And all along that eerie, high-stakes route through darkness, … Continue reading →

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A romcom fantasy in need of songs: Pretty Woman The Musical at the Jube, a review

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Pretty Woman the Musical, that arrived Tuesday at the Jube in a Broadway Across Canada touring production, there are two characters you can’t take your eyes off. There’s fun to be had when they’re onstage; … Continue reading →

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Far From The Home I Love: a Fiddler on the Roof for our time. A review.

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening moments of the grand touring production of Fiddler on the Roof that’s arrived at the Jube, a solitary man in a modern red parka walks onto the stage under a weathered train station … Continue reading →

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Newly rock-ified and fast on its feet: Jesus Christ Superstar arrives at the Jube. A review.

Posted on November 9, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a rush down the aisles, a veritable runners’ stampede onto the stage at the start of the Broadway Across Canada touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar that exploded into the Jube Tuesday. And it reimagines … Continue reading →

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Kiss the cod: Come From Away at the Jube, a review

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Come From Away wasn’t Away long, in real time. And yet, the world has changed in such unmistakeable ways since March 2019, when the American touring production arrived here, bringing a story of Canadian-ness back to … Continue reading →

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‘Immigrants get the job done’: Hamilton’s finally here, in a first-rate touring production

Posted on June 23, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hamilton: it’s epic. It’s crazy rich in its language, music, and theatricality. And it explodes onto the stage with an offer, no, a demand, to focus both history and musical theatre from the outsider perspective. It’s … Continue reading →

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