Tag Archives: Stewart Lemoine

Travel, adventure, discovery: Teatro Live! announces a new season

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Teatro Live turns 42 next season with a four-comedy line-up that returns to one of the company’s most popular, widely travelled, plays. And the theatrical journey inside and out- of Stewart Lemoine’s 1997 Pith! is germane … Continue reading →

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‘Entirely true made-up stories’: Andrew MacDonald-Smith’s cabaret My First Hundred Years, at Edmonton Opera

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca That Andrew MacDonald-Smith sure gets around. Crazy, the people he’s known! Those great times in New York with Irving Berlin and the Gershwin brothers. The fun of Berlin in the ‘20s, yes, he happened to be … Continue reading →

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Getting the jump on time: Love Is For Poor People and The Exquisite Hour, a Lemoine double-bill at Teatro Live!

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “So, tonight we’re going to be remembering my glorious future….” declares the glamorous and worldly star ‘Her’ we meet in Love Is For Poor People. In the new Stewart Lemoine that premieres Friday as half of … Continue reading →

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Teatro Live! new season, new calendar, new name

Posted on August 30, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ya turn 40, ya make changes….  Teatro La Quindicina goes into its new decade with a newly streamlined moniker (with a built-in exclamation point), a new logo, a new and Fringe-less yearly calendar, and an expanding … Continue reading →

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The dismantling of decorum: A Grand Time in the Rapids, an ingenious Teatro farce

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A newcomer — a properly composed English lady, in high heels and a frock — explains at the outset of A Grand Time in the Rapids that she’s crossed the Atlantic and come to Grand Rapids, … Continue reading →

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Doors will slam, towels will drop: Farren Timoteo goes farcical in A Grand Time in the Rapids at Teatro La Quindicina

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I love watching actors work hard,” says Farren Timoteo. “It’s one of my favourite things about theatre. I love it when you see them changing too much, running around too much, negotiating crazy entrances and exits … Continue reading →

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A comedy thriller with a Wagnerian reverb: Evelyn Strange at Teatro, a review

Posted on May 28, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A beautiful amnesiac in a trench coat finds herself in a grand tier box at the Met c. 1955, sitting through a performance of Wagner’s five-hour Siegfried. She needs time to think and, hey, The Ring … Continue reading →

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The strange cycles of theatre: Shannon Blanchet returns to Teatro to direct the vintage comedy thriller Evelyn Strange

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Every once in a while the world of live theatre pulls off one of those satisfying but fanciful multi-strand time loops that wouldn’t be out of place in a play. Opera is involved; so is comedy. … Continue reading →

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An ensemble devoted to expanding the comedy spectrum: Teatro at 40, the birthday season continues

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Teatro La Quindicina at 40. An artist-run company specially tuned to comedy, with co-artistic directors who both made their Teatro debuts as actors: same season (2005-2006), different plays, roles written specially for them by playwright/Teatro muse … Continue reading →

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A comedy set in Kelowna? Teatro La Quindicina turns 40 with Caribbean Muskrat, a review

Posted on April 2, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s telling that the oddball 2004 comedy launching Teatro La Quindicina’s return-to-live 40th anniversary season seems to wriggle out of every known category of their specialty. I refer of course to comedy. Teatro, after all, is … Continue reading →

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