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2022: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a small sampling, in no particular order, of assorted highlights from a year when live theatre on Edmonton stages rose to the occasion, and did what theatre can do best, conjure worlds through other eyes, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, AI theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Straight Edge Theatre, Teatro Live!, The Maggie Tree, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Tom Peacocke, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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You go girls: The Wolves at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Teamwork makes the dream work,” says the teenage captain of the Wolves, #25, quoting her coach dad, and applying herself sturdily to holding the soccer team together through every kind of teenage girl friction. “Hustle ladies, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Highwire Series, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Sarah DeLappe, The Maggie Tree
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The soccer field and the planet of teenage girls: The Wolves at the Citadel, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Wolves, opening the Citadel’s Highwire Series Thursday, does something no production has ever done at the big brick-and-glass playhouse downtown. It turns the Rice, the smallest of the Citadel’s theatres, into an indoor soccer field, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, The Maggie Tree
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It’s time to play: a peek at the new Edmonton theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Destination Fringe, with its 95,000 or so tickets sold, was a hint (we deal in big hints here in #yeg. People know what they’ve been missing; they want live in-person theatre experience and the sharing that … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Gordon's Big Bald Head, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Play The Fool Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Shadow Theatre, Teatro Live!, The Maggie Tree, U of A Studio Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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The Citadel announces a new Size Large season, led by two new Canadian musicals
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca After two contortionist years of stops and starts, indefinite postponements, cancellations cast hopefully as delays, re-bookings, digital work-arounds, the Citadel Theatre has cheering news. And it’s on a grand scale. “It’s big and it’s busy … … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Citadel Theatre season, Edmonton theatre, Hawksley Workman, Kate Hamill, Obsidian Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Maggie Tree
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What do you know now that you didn’t know on March 12? 12thnight asked theatre artists
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s been a learning curve.” Once more, with feeling. Since March I’ve heard the line from theatre artists too many times to count. And it’s been delivered in every intonation and cadence: exasperation (sardonic or direct), … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, The Maggie Tree, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Making space for a new generation of arts leaders: Vanessa Sabourin and Kristi Hansen walk the walk at Azimuth
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a moment in the life of the performing arts when the past didn’t seem to provide an automatic template for the future, this might be it. Change is in the air (and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Performance Labs, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, The Maggie Tree
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The Citadel’s upcoming “Season of the Rebel”: here’s the lineup
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more.” It’s from a TV anchor’s famous exhortation to his viewers in Network — rise up, lean out your windows, and yell — that … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ACT, Citadel Theatre, Dreamspeakers, Edmonton theatre, Hadestown, Punctuate! Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Maggie Tree, The Sound of Music, Theatre Calgary
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