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This weekend in a theatre town: get festive, see what’s onstage
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On the stages of this theatre town this weekend is a high-contrast array of entertainment possibilities, from a comic adaptation of a classic novel to the enactment of an advice column to a full-fledged festival. Have … Continue reading
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Tagged Artspace Theatre Team, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jabulani Arts Festival, Rapid Fire Theatre, Ribbon Rouge Foundation, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, Varscona Theatre
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Onstage in Edmonton this weekend, choices! A survey
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your biggest problem this weekend in this theatre town is … choice. That, and the moment of truth for procrastinators. And the possibilities are high-contrast, to put it mildly, from companies of every size, aesthetic, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes
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Pith! The return of a signature Teatro comedy and Jana O’Connor’s ‘dream role’
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca Jana O’Connor has been hearing stories in the rehearsal room. Stories which live on in the Teatro Live! archives, of the memorably frantic, complicated journeys to opening nights of Teatro’s most travelled, most often revived, arguably … Continue reading
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Tagged CBC Radio The Irrelevant Show, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!
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Get your festive on, release your inner elf: a selection of holiday shows on E-town stages this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Like holiday traditions, shows at this time of year come in every size and weight, and volume of fa-la-la-la-la. And if you’ve been resolutely festive-resistant so far, this is a week on E-town stages where you … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitol Theatre, Christmas pantos, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Girl Brain, Grindstone Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Theatre Network, Walterdale Theatre, Whizgiggling Productions
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And then Liza Minnelli showed up: The Blank Who Stole Christmas at Rapid Fire, a little review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Of all the improbabilities attached to the festive season — home invasion by a fat guy via chimney, that stratospheric high note in O Holy Night, etc. — here’s a real corker. Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Exchange Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre
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The Blank Who Stole Christmas: Rapid Fire Theatre’s original Christmas musical is back, with a different villain every show
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You’re a mean one, Mr. (Blank)… You’re as cuddly as a cactus/ You’re as charming as an eel….” They’ve always wanted a holiday tradition to call their own, a special Christmas show that, as Matt Schuurman … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dad's Garage, Dr. Seuss, Edmonton holiday shows, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Exchange Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre
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How To Ruin The Holidays, a new feature film from improv stars Kevin Gillese and director Arlen Konopaki
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “At Christmas all roads lead home.” As the stand-up comedian heroine (Amber Nash) of How To Ruin The Holidays discovers, evasionary tactics may stall this inevitable Yuletide GPS, but it will not change the destination. There’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Archer, Dad's Garage, Edmonton film, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Metro Cinema, Rapid Fire Theatre
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Excitement in a theatre town: you have to be there. Theatre possibilities this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca More proof, as if you needed any, that Edmonton is a theatre town: A week of exciting possibilities for your nights out. A Quebec thriller. A musical about the struggle to write a musical about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Dad's Garage, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, In Arms Theatre Collective, Larry Reese, MacEwan University theatre arts, Metro Cinema, Rapid Fire Theatre, Script Salon, Theatre Network, Trinity Gallery, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Fun (really!) with Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing, an inspired Theatre Yes 2-night production
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Well, THAT was fun!. A word that is only rarely (I need hardly remind you) applied to productions of Hamlet. The first night of The Play’s The Thing, Theatre Yes’s two-night production of Shakespeare’s longest, most … Continue reading
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Tagged Batrabbit Collective, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Guys in Disguise, L'UniThéâtre, Marv 'N Berry, Rapid Fire Theatre, Ready Go, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Yes, Workshop West
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Five Fringe Holdovers at the Varscona Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the Varscona Theatre (aka BYOV stage 11), an intriguing lineup of five Fringe shows are held over Aug. 29 to 31. The Cabin on Bald Dune, the only one of the five I’ve seen, is … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2023, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Affair of Honor, DogHeart Theatre, Edmonton Fringe 2023, Edmonton Fringe reviews, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, NextGen Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Splash Time, stage combat, Varscona Theatre
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