Tag Archives: Northern Light Theatre
Seasonal returns: High Tea and the Theatre 6-Pack
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Let no one argue that Firefly Theatre & Circus doesn’t take the high road. With the return of their annual High Tea Sunday, Firefly takes vertical integration literally, and tea-time to dizzy new heights. You can … Continue reading
The new theatre season begins: hey, Edmonton has play dates!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “And the wall keeps out the enemy/ And we build the wall to keep us free….” —Hadestown In Hadestown, the Broadway-bound musical whose out-of-town opening happens at Edmonton’s largest playhouse the Citadel (Nov. 11 to Dec. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anaïs Mitchell, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Northern Light Theatre, Rachel Chavkin, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, theatre season, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
A Sterling year onstage: nominations for Edmonton’s theatre awards
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A musical comedy in which a town and its citizens are transformed by putting on a show — a notion that Edmonton can enthusiastically get behind — proved the top choice of jurors as the 30th … Continue reading
The Virgin, The Whore, Something In between: Northern Light announces a new season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Next season Northern Light Theatre and L’UniThéâtre will share the premiere of a new play by Edmonton’s Cat Walsh, a playwright who specializes in the dark-unto-macabre end of the comedy spectrum. Trevor Schmidt’s production of Do … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brenda McFarlane, Cat Walsh, Colm Tóibín, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
The two person, six gun, many power ballad musical: Bonnie and Clyde at Northern Light: a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Northern Light Theatre director/designer Trevor Schmidt is something of a wizard of witty theatrical transformations. With Bonnie & Clyde the two person six-gun musical, the Northern Light season finale, his proven ingenuity has a double challenge. … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bonnie and Clyde, Edmonton theatre, musical theatre, Northern Light Theatre
Hey, emerging audience! it’s a weekend to go out to the theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s always anticipation in theatre, as there should be, about “emerging” playwrights, directors, actors. There are whole festivals devoted to them, like the upcoming 2017 edition of Nextfest. Leave aside for another day the tricky question … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, ELOPE, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network
Two people, 6 guns, a lot of music: meet the young stars of Bonnie and Clyde
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We know them as historical celebrities, the bank robber stars of a Depression Era crime spree who made a spectacular exit from the world in a bullet-riddled Ford in 1934. But in the “two person six-gun” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bonnie and Clyde, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
