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The year in Edmonton theatre: the Sterling Award nominations led by The Royale
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A vintage boxing story with a stinging right hook proved the top choices of jurors, as the the 35th annual Sterling Award nominations were announced Monday at Fringe Theatre headquarters. The Royale, Marco Ramirez’s highly theatrical … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2023 Sterling Awards, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Elizabeth Sterling Haynes, Grindstone Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Pyretic Productions, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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2022: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2022: it was a year in theatre that started with a calendar dotted with hopeful pencilled-in dates. After a complicated 2021 of cancellations and postponements (and a late-summer re-Pivot of The Pivot), audiences were, cautiously, ready … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Pyretic Productions, RISER Edmonton 2022, Teatro Live!, theatre highlights in Edmonton 2022, U of A Studio Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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From Plain Jane, Sweeney Todd in close-up: feel the rage. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You don’t want to think too hard about the dark smudges on the tiled wall. Or that loud industrial metallic grinding noise. Or the Please Remove Your Rubbers sign. We’re in the spartan break room of … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Co*Lab, Edmonton theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd
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Up close and chilling: a small-scale Sweeney Todd for our time, from the Plain Janes
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd/ He served a dark and vengeful god….” Starting Friday in a small and intriguing downtown space (CO*LAB), up close enough to smell blood, Plain Jane Theatre brings us a small-cast chamber … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Co*Lab, Edmonton theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd
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Rising Sun Theatre throws a magic/music bash
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Magic and music: some of this theatre town’s top-drawer talent in both are featured in Rising Sun Theatre’s benefit bash at the Gateway Theatre Oct. 1. Ron Pearson, a virtuoso magician/illusionist with a theatrical bent (Minerva: … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dana Wylie, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Rising Sun Theatre, Workshop West
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It’s time to play: a peek at the new Edmonton theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Destination Fringe, with its 95,000 or so tickets sold, was a hint (we deal in big hints here in #yeg. People know what they’ve been missing; they want live in-person theatre experience and the sharing that … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Gordon's Big Bald Head, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Play The Fool Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Shadow Theatre, Teatro Live!, The Maggie Tree, U of A Studio Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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Gathering dreams: Dreamers Cantata, a new revue from the Plain Janes. A Fringe review
Dreamer’s Cantata – A New Revue (Stage 11, Varscona Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What would we do without the Plain Janes? In addition to their excavations in the corners of the musical theatre repertoire where the forgotten or neglected, … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2022, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2022, Edmonton Fringe reviews, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Plain Jane Theatre Company
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Melanie Piatocha: theatre has lost a bright talent and a questing spirit
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In this bleak mid-winter of theatre, heartbreaking news of the January death of actor Melanie Piatocha at 36 seems particularly cruel. The abrupt loss of a talent so expansive, and a quester so spirited, so restless, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Banff Centre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Teatro La Quindicina
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2020: a year like no other in Edmonton theatre (part 1)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2020: the year the laws of probability bent so far out of shape they snapped. Along with satire, futurist dystopian fantasies ceded pride of place to … reality. Every definition of live theatre was up against … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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New faces in theatre: six bright newcomers. The series continues with triple-threat Bella King
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, Capitol Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, MacEwan University theatre arts, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Straight Edge Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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