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A home of their own, in the entertainment ‘hood: Rapid Fire Theatre at 41
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’ve dreamed it for years. Now, at age 41, Rapid Fire Theatre finally has a home of their own. And it’s in the ‘hood that’s their traditional home base, Old Strathcona. Edmonton’s premier improv company is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Group2, Old Strathcona, Old Strathcona Business Association, Rapid Fire Theatre, Roxy on Gateway, Strathcona Exchange Building
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Rapid Fire Theatre: back live, and back on their home turf in Old Strathcona
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Rapid Fire Theatre has a new home for the new year. The agile Edmonton improv company, 41 seasons old (but young at heart), de-camped this week from downtown and moved back to their traditional stomping ground, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Old Strathcona, Rapid Fire Theatre, Roxy on Gateway, Theatresports
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Ketchup ketchup everywhere! The fearless Colleen Murphy revisits Shakespeare’s grisliest play
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Colleen Murphy has undertaken some audacious theatrical projects in her time. Who else in this country do you go to for a 23-actor play with a time span of 500 years, and a polar bear protagonist … Continue reading
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Tagged bouffon clowning, Colleen Murphy, Edmonton theatre, Roxy on Gateway, Rumble Theatre, Theatre Network, Titus Andronicus
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Check-in time at the Bed and Breakfast, Theatre Network’s season-opener comedy. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You never have the full story when you’re in the middle of it,” says Drew (Chris Pereira), one-half of the beleaguered urbanite couple we meet at the outset of Bed and Breakfast. In Mark Crawford’s funny, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian comedy, Edmonton theatre, Mark Crawford, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network
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Bed and Breakfast: a hit comedy to open the Theatre Network season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The theatre repertoire has a fulsome measure of stories about gay kids who pull up stakes in their small-town lives and flee to freedom in the big city. In the hit Canadian comedy that opens at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blyth Festival, Canadian comedy, Edmonton theatre, Mark Crawford, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network
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A rare backstage pass: E Day takes you behind the scenes of an election. A review of Jason Chinn’s new political comedy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Welcome! Thanks for volunteering your time,” says a bright young woman with a smile and a clipboard as you enter the theatre. You’ve wandered into a cluttered makeshift office (designer: Beyata Hackborn, lighting by Scott Peters), … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight, 2015 Alberta election, Edmonton theatre, NDP victory, Rachel Notley, Roxy on Gateway, Serial Collective, Theatre Network Performance Series
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A new season at Theatre Network, and 3 Canadian plays
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Three Canadian plays, two by star playwrights and one by a hot up-and-comer, are the 2019-2020 lineup Theatre Network announced this week. There will be a moment (more than one) in this upcoming 45th season that … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2019-2020 theatre season, Colleen Murphy, Edmonton theatre, Hannah Moscovitch, Mark Crawford, Roxy on Gateway, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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Weal Thyman The Third: a bouffon clown show to provoke you at Nextfest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When you’re creating a bouffon clown show about a grotesque filthy-rich capitalist with businesses, land, money, possessions, sycophants, and an insatiable appetite for more more more, it’s not as if you have to rack your brains … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bouffon, clown, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2019, Nextfest Arts Company, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network
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“The show I needed to see”: Boy Trouble premieres at Nextfest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “What’s the show I really needed to see at that age?” That’s the question Mac Brock asked himself at 22, looking back on his 17-year-old self. So he wrote that show. Boy Trouble premieres at Nextfest … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2019, Nextfest Arts Company, Roxy on Gateway
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