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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 improbable magic of theatre (as discovered by goblins) in Goblin: Macbeth. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Three striking, masked figures — pointy ears, black topcoats — stride through the Citadel box office lobby from … the Lee Pavilion? the parking lot? the cosmos? And they instinctively know how to gather an audience … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Highwire Series, Spontaneous Theatre
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Nevermore, now evermore on film: a week of the macabre in Edmonton theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a big week for the (deliciously) macabre in Edmonton. Catalyst Theatre premieres a new film of their signature musical play cum gothic fantasia Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Spontaneous 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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Going Undercover with the crack improvisers of Spontaneous Theatre: a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I like your thinking,” says the tough-cookie Det. Sergeant (Rebecca Northan), snapping her gum approvingly at the rookie detective from time to time in the course of Undercover. “I like your thinking” is the mantra of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blind Date, Bruce Horak, Citadel Theatre, murder mystery theatre, Rebecca Northan, Spontaneous Theatre, Undercover
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Undercover: spontaneous detective work with improv queen Rebecca Northan
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca “Everyone has the capacity to improvise,” declares Rebecca Northan decisively, looking for inspiration on a lunch menu last week. “We all improvise all the time!” Not everyone, I think to myself, wincing visibly at a couple … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blind Date, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, long-form improvisation, murder mystery theatre, Rebecca Northan, Spontaneous Theatre, Undercover
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