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Theatre Six Pack 2021
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s happened for two decades, and it’s always sold out in a flash. One of Edmonton theatre’s perennial bright ideas is a subscription series that’s a cross-section sampling of the work of this town’s theatre companies. … Continue reading
Making space for a new generation of arts leaders: Vanessa Sabourin and Kristi Hansen walk the walk at Azimuth
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a moment in the life of the performing arts when the past didn’t seem to provide an automatic template for the future, this might be it. Change is in the air (and … Continue reading
Back to live theatre: are you game? That’s the question as E-town theatres make (and re-make) plans for the fall
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lessons from the pandemic: “Phases” may come (and go). But a great triple-sided mystery remains. You can throw open theatre doors. But will people want to return? Under what conditions? And when? The good news is … Continue reading
The strangest of seasons: a truncated year on Edmonton stages in Sterling Award nominations
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two high-contrast shows, one a subterranean prairie slow-burn tragedy and the other a riotous blood-spattered revenge comedy of the Shakespearean persuasion, proved the top choices of jurors as the 33rd annual Sterling Award nominations were announced … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blarney Productions, Catalyst Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, Northern Light Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Sterling Award nominations, Theatre Network, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Vena Amoris, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
Bring on the women: Northern Light Theatre’s 45th anniversary season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a certain wincing irony attached to cancelling the run of a play called Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver, to be sure. And that’s what happened, sadly, in the case of Northern Light Theatre’s season finale, … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2020-2021 season, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
When the curtain doesn’t open: strange nights without theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a strange feeling. I’ve spent most of my adult life encouraging people to go to live theatre. Exhorting people to share the excitement, the fun, the surprise, the laughter and the tears, the shared gasp, … Continue reading
Who am I? Where do I belong? A couple of theatre kids in love in Ellen Chorley’s Everybody Loves Robbie, at Northern Light
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the comedy that premieres Friday at Northern Light Theatre, a starry high school couple, drama kids who live and breathe the oxygenated air of musical theatre, come up against doubts. The kind of doubts that … Continue reading
Welcome back! Act II of the Edmonton theatre season is about to begin
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know what you’re thinking — post-festivity regret, punishing resolutions, the sense of finale. But cast off these thoughts: the theatre season isn’t ending. It’s only intermission. And intermission is over. Welcome back; Act II is … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged Alberta Aboriginal Arts, Broadway Across Canada, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Impossible Mongoose, Malachite Theatre, Mayfield Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Stonemarrow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Todd Babiak, Wild Side Productions
The year in Edmonton theatre: looking back on 2019
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Social media, video games, pop culture, the 2-D screen world … “all worthless, and we don’t even watch the same worthless things together,” rages Vanya, letting loose an elegiac full-blooded rant on the modern devaluation of … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blarney Productions, Bright Young Things, Broken Toys Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Kat Sandler, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Wildside Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
What to see this weekend on E-town stages (don’t stay home)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Time (a possible paradox). There’s never enough of it. It never stands still. It’s almost impossible to make a dent in it. You can move forward through it, but are you actually standing still? The show … Continue reading
