Tag Archives: Northern Light Theatre

We Had A Girl Before You: what happened to her? A new Gothic thriller opens the Northern Light season

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca O no O no…. Don’t look through that keyhole. And don’t open that door. Trevor Schmidt’s new gothic thriller looks through that keyhole, and  opens that door (and the Northern Light Theatre season), Friday. In We … Continue reading →

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The experimental spirit lives on in Edmonton theatre, live and in unusual hybrids

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Calling the pandemic an “obstacle” to live theatre, or maybe a “challenge,” is a bit like saying COVID is the flu. The pandemic has had a devastating effect on an art whose raison d’être is the … Continue reading →

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A night walk through Strathcona: Workshop West launches season with ‘an adventure into the unknown’

Posted on October 15, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre is back in action next week — live, on its feet, and in motion. And it’s with an original promenade adventure that takes you on a nocturnal walk through Old Strathcona. The … Continue reading →

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Theatre Six Pack 2021

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Making space for a new generation of arts leaders: Vanessa Sabourin and Kristi Hansen walk the walk at Azimuth

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Back to live theatre: are you game? That’s the question as E-town theatres make (and re-make) plans for the fall

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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The strangest of seasons: a truncated year on Edmonton stages in Sterling Award nominations

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Bring on the women: Northern Light Theatre’s 45th anniversary season

Posted on March 21, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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When the curtain doesn’t open: strange nights without theatre

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Who am I? Where do I belong? A couple of theatre kids in love in Ellen Chorley’s Everybody Loves Robbie, at Northern Light

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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