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And they’re back live in 2022: Shadow announces a live season for January
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Seasons announced and un-announced and re-announced (with modifications); shows scheduled and delayed, cancelled and pivoted…. The story of Edmonton theatres for the last 14 months is a narrative of optimism up against caution. As the Shadow … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Theatre Six Pack 2021
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s happened for two decades, and it’s always sold out in a flash. One of Edmonton theatre’s perennial bright ideas is a subscription series that’s a cross-section sampling of the work of this town’s theatre companies. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Rosebud Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Six-Pack, Walterdale Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Celebrating an Edmonton theatre season like no other: the Sterling Awards (online), led by The Color Purple and Titus Bouffonius
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton theatre took its annual awards gala onto the digital stage Monday night for the first time ever, to celebrate a theatre season like no other. And a musical that chronicles the empowering four-decade journey of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2020 Sterling Awards, Alberta Workers' Health Centre, Blarney Productions, Bustle & Beast Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Theatre Network, You Are Here Theatre
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Back to live theatre: are you game? That’s the question as E-town theatres make (and re-make) plans for the fall
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lessons from the pandemic: “Phases” may come (and go). But a great triple-sided mystery remains. You can throw open theatre doors. But will people want to return? Under what conditions? And when? The good news is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Yes, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The strangest of seasons: a truncated year on Edmonton stages in Sterling Award nominations
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two high-contrast shows, one a subterranean prairie slow-burn tragedy and the other a riotous blood-spattered revenge comedy of the Shakespearean persuasion, proved the top choices of jurors as the 33rd annual Sterling Award nominations were announced … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blarney Productions, Catalyst Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, Northern Light Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Sterling Award nominations, Theatre Network, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Vena Amoris, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
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Sandy Moser: mask-maker to the stars
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Live theatre gave Sandy Moser the big-M Moment that turned everything around for her. And she’s returning the favour, though she’d never put it that way in a million years. “What would I be doing otherwise?” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Calgary theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
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A time for dreaming: we asked theatre artists what roles and plays they’d love to do
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Live theatre hasn’t disappeared. It’s just on hold, suspended like time and probability, until we can all be together again in person: artists and their audiences, people sharing stories in a room. Along with the human … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Edmonton actors, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network
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Shadow Theatre focuses on local writers next season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre will finish its current season — but not until the fall. The Wrong People Have Money, the Shadow season finale with the resonant title (I can see you nodding), was to have premiered at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Conni Massing, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Reed McColm, Shadow Theatre, The Mountaintop, Varscona Theatre
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Heisenberg: the zigzag path to romance, at Shadow Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s named for a scientific principle that’s all about the unprincipled nature of the particulate world — its randomness and unpredictability. (You can’t measure the position and momentum of a particle simultaneously with any precision, according to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, romantic comedy, Shadow Theatre, Simon Stephens
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Heisenberg: the Uncertainty Principle comes to theatre, at Shadow. Meet Amber Borotsik
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you watch something closely enough you realize you have no possible way of telling where it’s going or how fast it’s getting there. Did you know that?” — Heisenberg “It’s a slippery thing,” muses Amber … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Shadow Theatre, Simon Stephens, Varscona Theatre
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