Tag Archives: SkirtsaFire Festival

Edmonton has play dates: here’s a dozen intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

Posted in Features, Previews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Edmonton has play dates: here’s a dozen intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season

The Sterlings, a coda

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

Posted in News/Views | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The Sterlings, a coda

Celebrating the season in Edmonton theatre: Mermaid Legs leads the way at the 36th annual Sterling Awards

Posted on June 25, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The spirit of off-centre ‘small theatre’ originality blew through the 36th annual Sterling Awards gala Monday night as the theatre community gathered to toast the 2023-24 season on Edmonton stages. And two challenging productions that live … Continue reading →

Posted in News/Views | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Celebrating the season in Edmonton theatre: Mermaid Legs leads the way at the 36th annual Sterling Awards

The year in Edmonton theatre: the 2023-24 Sterling Award nominations

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A “surreal theatre dance fantasia” that premiered as the centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival proved decisively the top choice of jurors as the 35th annual Sterling Awards nominations were announced Thursday at the Westbury Theatre. … Continue reading →

Posted in News/Views | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The year in Edmonton theatre: the 2023-24 Sterling Award nominations

SOUND OFF, the unique national Deaf theatre fest, is back for an 8th annual edition

Posted on March 1, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca SOUND OFF, the influential national festival unique in the country and the continent, is back, and here in its hometown, for an eighth annual edition Tuesday. The brainchild of Chris Dodd, SOUND OFF is dedicated to … Continue reading →

Posted in Features, Previews | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on SOUND OFF, the unique national Deaf theatre fest, is back for an 8th annual edition

Behind the scenes at Mermaid Legs, the theatrical centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival

Posted on February 23, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new Beth Graham play premiering Feb. 29 as the mainstage centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival, has the best, most evocative, most intriguing, title of the season. Mermaid Legs, commissioned by the theatre and multi-disciplinary … Continue reading →

Posted in Features, Previews | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Behind the scenes at Mermaid Legs, the theatrical centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival

What’s up, Edmonton? Act II of the theatre season is about to begin

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lights up, Edmonton. Take your seats, friends; intermission is over. And Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. The tip-off? Next week, Farren Timoteo’s terrific (and much-travelled solo show Made In Italy returns … Continue reading →

Posted in Features, Previews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on What’s up, Edmonton? Act II of the theatre season is about to begin

‘I had to find my own way in’: Amanda Goldberg directs Twelfth Night at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What country, friends, is this? (I, ii, Twelfth Night) Like Viola, the heroine of the Shakespeare comedy in this year’s Freewill Shakespeare Festival, who steps onto the shore of a strange new world, director Amanda Goldberg … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on ‘I had to find my own way in’: Amanda Goldberg directs Twelfth Night at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival

Wait, there’s more…. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Stay tuned; face forward. There’s more! Intermission’s over, my friends, and Act II of the Edmonton theatre season is about to begin. Freaky Green Eyes, Emma Houghton’s original adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novel, premieres … Continue reading →

Posted in Features | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Wait, there’s more…. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin

‘Who were we before life got hold of us?’ Thoughts on Ayita at the SkirtsAfire festival

Posted on March 5, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca To walk into the Westbury Theatre these days is to find yourself in a world that’s mysterious but familiar, calm but in perpetual motion.  Whittyn Jason’s captivating design puts us in the centre of a wave … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on ‘Who were we before life got hold of us?’ Thoughts on Ayita at the SkirtsAfire festival