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Edmonton, it’s time to play: here are 10 intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey Edmonton, it’s time to come out and play. As always our mighty summer Fringe is the tip off. And the 44th annual edition sold a spirit-lifting 140,000-plus tickets to its 221 shows, hinting at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Theatre, Mile Zero Dance, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Uniform Theatre
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Toasting the season on Edmonton stages: the 37th annual Sterling Awards, led by Brick Shithouse
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A wave of indie creativity prevailed at the 36th annual Sterling Awards bash Monday night hosted by Luc Tellier and Nadien Chu, as the theatre community put on lipstick and dancing shoes at the Westbury Theatre … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta Musical Theatre Company, Common Ground Arts Society, Defiance Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Silver Skate Festival, SkirtsaFire Festival, Sterling Awards, Straight Edge Theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Remembering the 2024-2025 theatre season — in its performances, its design inspirations, its risky experiments, its moments of magic (and/or crazy live-ness) — and its saddest, most irreplaceable losses. Start with those. The passing of wonderful … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, fenceless theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Mayfield Theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Remembering the season in Edmonton theatre, highlights part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Goblin:Macbeth, the brilliant Spontaneous Theatre production that came to the Citadel’s Highwire Series this season, one of the goblin stars wonders aloud what the strange human ritual called theatre is actually for, anyhow. And he … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The rise of RISER: a new works festival from Common Ground
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca RISER has risen. Again, and in a new, expanded form. Edmonton, where theatre is the leading arts industry, was always the right place for the visionary national initiative — launched by Toronto’s Why Not Theatre — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Found Festival, RISER Edmonton, SkirtsaFire Festival, Theatre Yes, Why Not Theatre
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The theatre of big questions: playwright Mick Gordon talks about Bea, his most produced play, in this preview
By Liz NIcholls, 12thnight.ca “Death,” says the pleasant Irish voice on the phone from across the Atlantic, “is the great unifier.” The voice belongs to the much-awarded Northern Ireland writer/director Mick Gordon, whose his most-performed play Bea is now running … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Varscona Theatre
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Intermission’s over, take your seats: Act II of the theatre season is about to begin (prospects to intrigue you).
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wait…. There’s more. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. And rehearsals are underway all over town. Goblin: Macbeth, a Spontaneous Theatre Creation, starts previews next week in the Citadel’s Highwire Series. How … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre Creation, Teatro Live!, Theatre Yes, U of A drama department, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2024: remembering the year in Edmonton theatre, part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2024 (part 2). Here’s a small assortment of highlights — performances, moments, scenes, ideas — in the year of live theatre in Edmonton. But first, the year’s saddest news: as the current 2024-2025 season began, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Jabulani Festival, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Small Matters Productions, Teatro Live!, Theatre Prospero, Thou Art Here Theatre, U of A drama department, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Edmonton has play dates: here’s a dozen intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s time to play. After a year of continuing struggle, with rising production costs and dwindling funding, theatre companies and artists are finding their way back to stages large and small. Our mighty summer Fringe, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre, Theatre Network
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The Sterlings, a coda
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Diverse disconnected thoughts from the Sterling gala Monday night. •It was an evening of three-and-a-half-plus hours hosted by a pair of improvisers, Marguerite Lawler and Gordie Lucius from Rapid Fire Theatre who actually (on purpose?) managed … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, RISER Edmonton, SkirtsaFire Festival, Sterling Awards, Tiny Bear Jaws
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