Tag Archives: Teatro Live!

It’s play time in Edmonton theatres: the new season

Posted on September 4, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey Edmonton, it’s time to come out and play! The new theatre season is starting. And it enters buoyed by cheering news from our grand-slam summer theatre festival: the 45th annual Fringe sold a heart-lifting 142,000 … Continue reading →

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Laughter and more: Farren Timoteo announces an upcoming Teatro Live! 45th anniversary season of comedies

Posted on July 29, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A laughing matter. “I read it and laughed out loud. And I chase that.” Words to live by when you’re the new artistic director of Teatro Live!, choosing plays to program for the upcoming 45th anniversary … Continue reading →

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The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part two

Posted on July 25, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a tumultuous season, Edmonton theatre got shaken and stirred: big changes, big news,  big anniversaries celebrated, experiments, a homecoming…. Start with that. After years in exile, the Freewill Shakespeare Festival came home to Heritage Amphitheatre … Continue reading →

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And the 2025-2026 Sterling Awards go to …

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two high-contrast fairy tales — one a small-scale, whimsical musical love story with Fringe origins and the other a large-scale, fizzy 20-year-old Broadway musical —  proved the top choice of jurors at the 37th annual Sterling … Continue reading →

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‘Mirth! mirth!’ Cocktails at Pam’s returns to Teatro Live! with the bubbly

Posted on July 13, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you ever suspected that human civilization is built on sand, or possibly the cubes in an ice bucket, you’re going to love the way the perfect hostess looks around her living room in the opening … Continue reading →

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We’re invited to a ’60s party: Cocktails at Pam’s, Teatro Live! revives a signature Lemoine comedy. A preview

Posted on July 8, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Forty years ago a theatre company blithely outside the Canadian theatre mainstream invited Fringe audiences to a ‘60s cocktail party. In Cocktails at Pam’s, dressed-up people kept arriving at Pam’s place. Gimlets and gibsons got made, … Continue reading →

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A Michelin star performance by Andrew MacDonald-Smith in Fully Committed, at Teatro Live!, a review

Posted on June 7, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A phone starts ringing before our unemployed actor hero even arrives at his day job for a shift in the underworld — at the reservation desk hidden in the nether regions of the hottest, hippest Manhattan … Continue reading →

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A June week on E-town stages: two festivals, a multi-character solo show, a drag queen extravaganza, a Pride party …

Posted on June 3, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A June week in Edmonton theatre: for starters, two festivals, a virtuoso solo show in which one extremely agile actor plays 40 (!) characters, an evening with local drag royalty, a big Pride block party. •The … Continue reading →

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A weekend at the theatre, with heroines aplenty

Posted on March 7, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Can it be coincidence on this, the weekend of International Women’s Day, that it’s your last chance to see … … I Meant What I Said, Stewart Lemoine’s first new full-length comedy in seven years, premiering … Continue reading →

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Stewart Lemoine’s first new full-length comedy in seven long years: I Meant What I Said (and he does), at Teatro Live!

Posted on February 15, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In I Meant What I Said (formerly called Finally! A New Play By Stewart Lemoine), Stewart Lemoine’s first new full-length comedy in seven years — we meet Dinah, a proofreader and aspiring novelist who’s fast approaching the … Continue reading →

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