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All your questions answered: Edmonton theatre this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the week you can have your most persistent, long-standing questions answered from the stage. Here’s an introductory short-term small-scale answer to a question it may not have occurred to you to ask: where has … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged Broadway Across Canada, Carter-Ryan Gallery and Live Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, La Cité francophone, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Theatre Network
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A friendship story, Ukrainian and Métis: Kohkom’s Babushka by playwright BFFs Lianna Makuch and Joleen Ballendine.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When the co-creators of Kohkom’s Babushka, one Ukrainian and the other Métis, were 12 years old, they became best friends forever. Instantly inseparable. And that lasting friendship between Lianna Makuch and Joleen Ballendine is at the … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, La Cité francophone, National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, theatre for young audiences
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A dark absurdist comedy introduces us to contemporary Ukrainian theatre: Bomb. A Fringe preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Can you name a single Ukrainian playwright? Me neither. Fringe Full of Stars is about to change that. When director Lianna Makuch got her hands on Bomb, a dark, absurdist comedy by the contemporary Ukrainian … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Fringe 2025, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2025, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions
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Lots to see on Edmonton stages this week, a small survey of the landscape
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
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jabulani Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Prairie Strange Productions, Punctuate! Theatre, Ribbon Rouge Foundation, Shadow Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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‘A wonder of an actor’: with the death of Julien Arnold, we’ve lost one of our best, and most loved, theatre artists
In honour of the late Julien Arnold, I’m re-posting my 12thnight tribute of Nov. 25. Thursday night at the Citadel (7:30 p.m. in the Maclab Theatre) we celebrate the life of this exceptional theatre artist. If you can’t make it … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlas Theatre Collective, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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‘A wonder of an actor’: in Julien Arnold, we’ve lost one of our finest, and most loved, theatre artists
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We — the ‘we’ across the country — woke up this morning to the most heartbreaking and tragic theatre news. The untimely passing of Julien Arnold at 58, felled by a heart attack at the Citadel … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Julien Arnold, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network
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2023: The year in Edmonton theatre, part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2023 (part 2). Here’s a small assortment (in no particular order) of highlights — moments, performances, bright ideas, experiences — of the year of live theatre on Edmonton stages. Home sweet home. 2023 was the year.… … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, In Arms Collective, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, RISER 2023, Shadow Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2023: The year in Edmonton theatre, part 1, the play’s the thing
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2023. It was the year a small Edmonton theatre company with new artistic directors and an affirmative declaration for a name, devised an original way to remind us of the remarkable breadth of the performance scene … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, In Arms Collective, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, U of A Studio Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The season in Edmonton theatre, part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2022-2023. It’s been a complicated season on Edmonton stages. That Destination Fringe last summer sold 95,000 tickets to shows was a tip-off that live theatre was gradually getting its mojo back. And in the fall, post-Fringe … Continue reading
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Tagged Amoris Projects, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Hit & Myth Productions, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Dreaming (and dancing) big: Prison Dancer premieres at the Citadel’s Collider Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a theatre festival that thinks big about the new — creating it to live on large performance spaces across the country and beyond, developing, celebrating and showcasing it. The Citadel’s Collider Festival, a collision of … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged Canadian Film Centre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, National Arts Centre, National Creation Fund, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Prison Dancer Inc., Punctuate! Theatre
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