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A new season, and a new artistic director, for Teatro Live! Farren Timoteo brings his blue-chip Teatro cred home

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Teatro Live! has a new season — and, starting Sept. 1,  a new artistic director. “Comedy is powerful…. That’s my place in the universe!” declares Farren Timoteo, looking delighted (his at-rest expression) after a day auditioning … Continue reading

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Summer theatre choices, including three in their last week: a little 12thnight survey

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wakey wakey! It’s your last chance this week to catch … •The Lion King. Julie Taymor’s 1997 musical, a non-pareil triumph in conjuring an imaginary world, has been here a couple of times before under the … Continue reading

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A vintage ’60s comedy done up deluxe(ly) at Teatro: The Odd Couple, a review

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The sound of an audience laughing out loud is something to be cherished — especially if it’s live, and you’re there among the people. One of the classics of old-school American comedy returns, in style, to the stage … Continue reading

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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