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A week of many choices on Edmonton stages of every shape and size
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A crazy week in Edmonton theatre is underway. (So don’t go trying to land a stage from which to deliver your own innovative modern dance movement memoir; they’re all occupied.) •At the Citadel, the much postponed … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Opera Nuova, RISER Edmonton, Theatre Network, U of A Studio Theatre
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What’s up in Edmonton theatre this weekend? Have a peek
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What’s up in Edmonton theatre this weekend? Oh, you know, the usual…. A new theatre is glowing from the inside out. Shows are ending their runs, a live season of Die-Nasty is about to begin, Opera … Continue reading
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Tagged Bright Young Things, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Die-Nasty, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Opera Nuova, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Varscona Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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New faces in theatre: behind the scenes with stage manager Isabel Bergquist
They’re young. They shine brightly. And their talents are already lighting up the Edmonton theatre scene. 12thnight talked to six starry and sought-after up-and-comers, artists whose work, on- and backstage, will have a big impact on theatre here when the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Musical Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton new faces in theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Isabel Bergquist, Nextfest, Opera Nuova, stage managers, U of A drama department
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Prying opera out of its standard choices: Opera Nuova’s 2017 festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The performance venue is unusual. The stagecraft is unusual. And there’s this: I think we can safely call the Opera Nuova production of Eugene Onegin (opening Thursday at the west end Oasis Centre) a moving experience. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Carousel, Cunning Little Vixen, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Eugene Onegin, Opera Nuova, Rodgers and Hammerstein
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June is bustin’ out all over (two Carousels spin onto the stage this month)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was never an easy musical — to cast, to act, to sing, to dance, to stage. And its dauntingly dark source, a 1909 play by the Hungarian Ferenc Molnár (Liliom), wasn’t exactly a natural for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, American musical theatre, Carousel, Edmonton theatre, Festival Place, Foote in the Door Productions, La Cité francophone, Opera Nuova, Rodgers and Hammerstein
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Having Patience: Opera Nuova festival opens with G&S
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Twenty lovesick maidens we….” Let romantic melancholy descend, my friends…. Patience may be a virtue, but it’s also a rarely performed 1881 musical satire/ operetta by the redoubtable team of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Their … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, aesthetic movement, Edmonton theatre, Gilbert and Sullivan, Opera Nuova, Patience, pre-Raphaelites, Rob Herriot
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