Tag Archives: Rapid Fire Theatre

And then Liza Minnelli showed up: The Blank Who Stole Christmas at Rapid Fire, a little review

Posted on December 3, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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The Blank Who Stole Christmas: Rapid Fire Theatre’s original Christmas musical is back, with a different villain every show

Posted on November 29, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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How To Ruin The Holidays, a new feature film from improv stars Kevin Gillese and director Arlen Konopaki

Posted on November 12, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Excitement in a theatre town: you have to be there. Theatre possibilities this week

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Fun (really!) with Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing, an inspired Theatre Yes 2-night production

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Five Fringe Holdovers at the Varscona Theatre

Posted on August 26, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Some things I learned at the Sterlings

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here are some things I learned at the sold-out 35th annual Sterling Awards bash Monday night, celebrating the season just past in Edmonton theatre. Written by April Banigan with co-hosts Matt Schuurman and Sue Goberdhan, directed by … Continue reading →

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Improvaganza is back, for the first time at the Exchange, Rapid Fire Theatre’s new home sweet home

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You can never quite know what will happen at Improvaganza. And that’s how it’s supposed to be. The improv talent from here, there, and everywhere arriving for the 2023 edition of Rapid Fire Theatre’s annual international … Continue reading →

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The improbable magic of live: Flop! the improvised musical, a little review

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Calling an improvised musical Flop! is like calling a plastic surgery practice Oops! or an aerial circus Thud!. It’s irresistible; you can’t not look. But then, it’s clearly impossible: making up an entire musical, with an … Continue reading →

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Wait, who’d be crazy enough to improvise a musical? Meet the creators of Flop!

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’re onstage at the new Rapid Fire Theatre Exchange, looking at each other and the audience. They were supposed to have written the new musical they’re supposed to be performing for 10 nights (it says so … Continue reading →

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