Tag Archives: Northern Light Theatre

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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What’s new? The weekend on Edmonton stages, that’s what: three new Canadian plays and a musical

Posted on November 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey Edmonton! It’s a weekend to be surprised and excited by something new on the stages of this theatre town. As the country has found out, E-town has longtime cred as a generator and showcase of … Continue reading →

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“I have become God”: Trevor Schmidt’s thriller Monstress premieres at Northern Light, a review

Posted on November 9, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You enter the Studio Theatre through fog, and discover you’re in a mysterious chamber, glowing with jewelled colours and overhung with dozens of scissors, blades pointing down at us. The centrepiece, a slab that might be … Continue reading →

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Who’s the real monster? Monstress, a new Trevor Schmidt thriller, launches the Northern Light season

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Trevor Schmidt calls his latest play, launching the Northern Light Theatre season Friday, “my Lady Frankenstein show.” Playwright Schmidt, NLT’s long-time artistic director, has long been fascinated by the female perspective, female windows on the world, … Continue reading →

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Edmonton has play dates: here’s a dozen intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s time to play. After a year of continuing struggle, with rising production costs and dwindling funding, theatre companies and artists are finding their way back to stages large and small. Our mighty summer Fringe, as … Continue reading →

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The year in Edmonton theatre: the 2023-24 Sterling Award nominations

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A “surreal theatre dance fantasia” that premiered as the centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival proved decisively the top choice of jurors as the 35th annual Sterling Awards nominations were announced Thursday at the Westbury Theatre. … Continue reading →

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Onstage in Edmonton this weekend, choices! A survey

Posted on April 19, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your biggest problem this weekend in this theatre town is … choice. That, and the moment of truth for procrastinators. And the possibilities are high-contrast, to put it mildly, from companies of every size, aesthetic, and … Continue reading →

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On the outside looking in: Candy & The Beast, a new Trevor Schmidt thriller at Northern Light Theatre, a review

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a dark and threatening world, a miasma of secret dangers and fear, in which we find ourselves in Candy & The Beast, a new and multi-faceted mystery thriller by (and directed by) Trevor Schmidt premiering … Continue reading →

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Playing in the unfiltered world of kids: meet Jayce McKenzie, star of Robot Girls and Candy & The Beast

Posted on April 3, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Double vision. By day Jayce McKenzie has been rehearsing a new Trevor Schmidt play that premieres Friday in a Northern Light Theatre production. By night she has been regaling and touching audiences in  … a new … Continue reading →

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