Search
Patreon
Categories
Tag Archives: Plain Jane Theatre Company
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
Posted in Features
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
Comments Off on Melanie Piatocha: theatre has lost a bright talent and a questing spirit
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
Posted in Features
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
Comments Off on 2020: a year like no other in Edmonton theatre (part 1)
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
Posted in Features
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
Comments Off on New faces in theatre: six bright newcomers. The series continues with triple-threat Bella King
A time for dreaming: we asked theatre artists what roles and plays they’d love to do
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Live theatre hasn’t disappeared. It’s just on hold, suspended like time and probability, until we can all be together again in person: artists and their audiences, people sharing stories in a room. Along with the human … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Edmonton actors, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network
Comments Off on A time for dreaming: we asked theatre artists what roles and plays they’d love to do
10 years with the Janes: Plain Jane Theatre celebrates with a new revue, Get Happy!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Happiness. So how’s that going for you? Is the state of happiness a democratic republic? Is happiness something to be approached gradually, on tiptoe? Something to be pursued vigorously and wrestled to the ground? Or chosen? … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, musical theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
Comments Off on 10 years with the Janes: Plain Jane Theatre celebrates with a new revue, Get Happy!
The year in Edmonton theatre: looking back on 2019
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Social media, video games, pop culture, the 2-D screen world … “all worthless, and we don’t even watch the same worthless things together,” rages Vanya, letting loose an elegiac full-blooded rant on the modern devaluation of … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blarney Productions, Bright Young Things, Broken Toys Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Kat Sandler, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Wildside Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
Comments Off on The year in Edmonton theatre: looking back on 2019
Enter smiling, glass in hand: the Varscona Theatre Ensemble season begins with Fallen Angels
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the effervescent 1924 comedy that opens Thursday on the Varscona stage, you will see two married women, bored with contentment and longing for passion, restore the zing of excitement to their lives. They levitate into … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Atlas Theatre, Bright Young Things, Doug Curtis, Edmonton theatre, Fun Home, Noel Coward, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
Comments Off on Enter smiling, glass in hand: the Varscona Theatre Ensemble season begins with Fallen Angels
You’ll be swell, you’ll be great! Everything’s Coming Up Chickens, a Plain Janes revue. A Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Everything’s Coming Up Chickens: A Revue (Stage 12, Varscona Theatre) This highly entertaining revue is what happens when you let a company of musical theatre experts roam through their specialty repertoire (the odd, the neglected, the … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2018, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival 2018, Edmonton Fringe reviews, Janice Flower, Kate Ryan, musical revues, Plain Jane Theatre Company
Comments Off on You’ll be swell, you’ll be great! Everything’s Coming Up Chickens, a Plain Janes revue. A Fringe review
And the theatre season continues: take your seats people, Act II is about to begin
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE.… The theatre season isn’t ending; that’s not how the calendar works. There’s still Act II, and it’s about to begin. It’s the moment to cast aside regrets and look forward. What looks … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brian Webb Dance Company, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Kill Your Television Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Shadow Theatre, Skirts AFire Festival, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network
Comments Off on And the theatre season continues: take your seats people, Act II is about to begin