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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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Fringe Full of Stars: further thoughts from 12thnight on how to get intrigued, and what to see
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Starting Thursday you have the fun of launching yourself into the galaxy of Fringe Full of Stars, the 44th annual edition of the oldest and biggest of the continent’s Fringes (and the prototype for the rest). … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Fringe 2025, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broken Toys Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Indiginized Indigenous Theatre, Pyretic Productions, RibbitRePublic Theatre, SNAFU Productions, Uniform Theatre
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Are you lost in the stars? What to see at Fringe Full Of Stars: a little survey to get you started
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Starting Thursday, Edmonton’s best idea ever is back in action to screw up your bedtime, and make life more exciting. The 44th annual edition of our 11 day-and-night theatre bash, the biggest and oldest Fringe on … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Fringe 2025, Previews
Tagged Batrabbit Productions, Clevername Theater, Defiance Theatre, Edmonton Fringe 2025, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Guys in Disguise, Live & In Color, Nextfest Arts Company, Pyretic Productions, Ready Go Theatre, Small Matters Productionss, Straight Edge Theatre, Vault Theatre
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The season in Edmonton theatre, part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2022-2023 in Edmonton theatre (post-Fringe) was the season of … … a new home: Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton’s longest-running improv comedy, moved into spiffy, beautifully located, new place in Strathcona, the Exchange on 83rd Ave. … … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged AuTash Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Gender? I Hardly Know Them, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Pyretic Productions, RISER 2023, Shadow Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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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
Posted in News/Views
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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Living a love story in real life, with real-life obstacles to a happy ending: First Métis Man of Odesa, at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca First Metis Man of Odesa, opening at the Citadel April 27, is at its heart a love story, ignited by a chance spark — a “something between us” — in a theatre across the world from … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Highwire Series, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Ukrainian Theatre
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2022: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a small sampling, in no particular order, of assorted highlights from a year when live theatre on Edmonton stages rose to the occasion, and did what theatre can do best, conjure worlds through other eyes, … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, AI theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Straight Edge Theatre, Teatro Live!, The Maggie Tree, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Tom Peacocke, Workshop West Playwrights 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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