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Your last crack at a couple of festivals and a screwball on E-town stages, a small 12thnight survey on a wet weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Live theatre lives in the moment (not a new thought but one to consider this wet weekend in Edmonton) It’s your last chance… •… And also your first, to see Sprouts, Concrete Theatre’s annual festival of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Concrete Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2025, Teatro Live!
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An intriguing week in Edmonton theatre: go see a show
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s an intriguing week in Edmonton theatre. An influential festival that’s all about getting splashed by the next wave. Not one but two productions, from two vastly different companies, that tap into the rich and weird … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ArtsHub Ortona, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2025, Rising Sun Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network
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Into the woods, a screwball talent search: On The Banks of the Nut at Teatro. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In On The Banks Of the Nut, the vintage Stewart Lemoine screwball comedy getting an expertly acted revival at Teatro Live! (its first in 15 years) you’ll repeatedly hear six words bound to up the ante … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, screwball comedy, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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The moment for a screwball comedy and a take-charge heroine: Teatro Live! revives On The Banks Of The Nut, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Have you lost your sense of fun? If it’s crossed your mind lately to wonder how on earth everything has turned out much worse that you ever imagined, it might just be the moment for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton theatre, screwball comedy, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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Edmonton theatre this week, and the cure for frostbite
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This week, in Edmonton theatres, you can have your heart warmed — and in several ways. (Seriously, you can’t be thinking of staying home feeling frosty). It started Monday night at Theatre Network with a beautiful … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Teatro Live!, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Teatro Live introduces a younger generation of stars (and Hungarian street snacks) in The Noon Witch. Meet Eli Yaschuk.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thirty years ago, Teatro La Quindicina audiences caught sight of a highly idiosyncratic witch who preferred sunlight to night time, and lured men to their watery death with caloric fatty snacks so they sink. Playwright Stewart … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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‘A wonder of an actor’: with the death of Julien Arnold, we’ve lost one of our best, and most loved, theatre artists
In honour of the late Julien Arnold, I’m re-posting my 12thnight tribute of Nov. 25. Thursday night at the Citadel (7:30 p.m. in the Maclab Theatre) we celebrate the life of this exceptional theatre artist. If you can’t make it … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlas Theatre Collective, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights 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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‘A wonder of an actor’: in Julien Arnold, we’ve lost one of our finest, and most loved, theatre artists
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We — the ‘we’ across the country — woke up this morning to the most heartbreaking and tragic theatre news. The untimely passing of Julien Arnold at 58, felled by a heart attack at the Citadel … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Julien Arnold, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network
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