Tag Archives: Northern Light Theatre

Remembering the season in Edmonton theatre, highlights part 1

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Goblin:Macbeth, the brilliant Spontaneous Theatre production that came to the Citadel’s Highwire Series this season, one of the goblin stars wonders aloud what the strange human ritual called theatre is actually for, anyhow. And he … Continue reading →

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Northern Light Theatre announces an upcoming 50th anniversary season

Posted on June 9, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Northern Light, the adventurous Edmonton theatre company that’s had more eras, mandates, identities, logos, radical reinventions than any other in this theatre town, is turning 50 in the 2025-26 season. Its origins were modest half a … Continue reading →

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Lots to see on Edmonton stages this week, a small survey of the landscape

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, Edmonton. You have choices for your evenings out at the theatre this week: two Canadian comedies, a wicked Brit satire, a multi-disciplinary arts festival, a stage adaptation of a much-loved novel, a prairie love story, … Continue reading →

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We’re all good people, right? Up the property ladder in Radiant Vermin, a review

Posted on April 20, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a week when “housing crisis” and “starter home” got batted around like pingpong balls (in both our official languages) at the leaders’ debates, here’s a Faustian comedy that’s eerily in sync. It’s dark and smiley, … Continue reading →

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The high price of a dream home: Trevor Schmidt talks about the dark satire Radiant Vermin, at Northern Light

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

  By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Really shocking,” says Trevor Schmidt cheerfully of the wicked satire that opens Friday as the finale of Northern Light Theatre’s ‘Making A Monster’ season. “And really funny.” He compares the appealing, perky young couple we … Continue reading →

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Portrait of a men’s movement recruit: Angry Alan at Northern Light, a review

Posted on January 26, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are so many reasons to dismiss a guy like Roger, the protagonist of Angry Alan, a smart, surprising little stinger of a play, and the latest in Northern Light Theatre’s ‘Making A Monster’ season. I … Continue reading →

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Meet a man with a grievance, and the actor who plays him: Cody Porter in Angry Alan at Northern Light

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “For the first time in a really long time I feel like someone is speaking to me in a language which I completely understand … something which makes me feel good about myself.” Roger in Angry … Continue reading →

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Intermission’s over, take your seats: Act II of the theatre season is about to begin (prospects to intrigue you).

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wait…. There’s more. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. And rehearsals are underway all over town. Goblin: Macbeth, a Spontaneous Theatre Creation, starts previews next week in the Citadel’s Highwire Series. How … Continue reading →

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2024: remembering the year in Edmonton theatre, part 2

Posted on December 23, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2024 (part 2). Here’s a small assortment of highlights — performances, moments, scenes, ideas — in the year of live theatre in Edmonton. But first, the year’s saddest news: as the current 2024-2025 season began, the … Continue reading →

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A multi-dimensional life in the theatre: the mind- and heart-expansion effect of Jim DeFelice

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With the passing in October of Jim DeFelice, at 87, a multi-talented theatre artist and a true theatre community mentor are, at one blow, gone from us. Without him this theatre town of ours seems a … Continue reading →

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