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Young and in love: a playful rom-com version of Pride and Prejudice at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ah, young love. The play that opens Thursday at the Citadel takes us into the heart of “rom-com-land,” as Gianna Vacirca puts it, amused. “And we’re not watching grown-ups, adults with lots of romantic history, people … Continue reading
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Tagged bell'uovo, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jane Austen, Kate Hamill, Theatre Network
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‘I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy’. Joni Mitchell: Songs of a Prairie Girl at Theatre Network, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m not a weeper, I’m a snarler,” Joni Mitchell in old age tells us in the “theatrical collage” in her honour at Theatre Network. “I put the weeping in the songs…. I sing my sorrow, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Joni Mitchell, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
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Joni Mitchell: Songs of a Prairie Girl, a ‘theatrical collage’ of a legendary artist, at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We’re captive on the carousel of time/ We can’t return, we can only look/ Behind, from where we came….” The Circle Game, Joni Mitchell, 1966 The show that opens Thursday on the Theatre Network mainstage is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jim Guedo, Joni Mitchell, MacEwan University, Songs of a Prairie Girl, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
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Now we know what we’ve been missing: fun. Ronnie Burkett’s Daisy Theatre is back at Theatre Network with Little Willy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was one of those nights out in the theatre that make you know what you’ve been missing. Fun. Surprise. A feeling you’d have to call wonder — when you wake up the next morning and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Ronnie Burkett, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, The Daisy Theatre, the F!*#@$G Festival, Theatre Network
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Behind the red door: a Forever Home for Rapid Fire Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A Forever Home is for dreaming in. For feeling you have a place in the world, imagining your potential, getting creative. At 42, Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton’s premier improv company and its longest running, is experienced … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Old Strathcona, Rapid Fire Theatre, Strathcona telephone exchange, TELUS, Theatre Network, Theatresports, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A week of many choices on Edmonton stages of every shape and size
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A crazy week in Edmonton theatre is underway. (So don’t go trying to land a stage from which to deliver your own innovative modern dance movement memoir; they’re all occupied.) •At the Citadel, the much postponed … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Opera Nuova, RISER Edmonton, Theatre Network, U of A Studio Theatre
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What’s on at Another F!*#@$G Festival at Theatre Network? Hey, Jesus and Shakespeare will be there
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Yes, Edmonton, Another F!*#@$G Festival is coming at you. Find the festivities — multi-disciplinary, adult, contemporary — at Theatre Network, in their beautiful new Roxy on 124th St. starting Tuesday And here’s big-shot validation: Shakespeare and … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital City Burlesque, Cutis Trent, Dammitammy Productions, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, House of Hush Burlesque, Larry Louie, Marv 'N Berry, Nextfest, Ryan Parker, The Daisy Theatre, The Pansy Craze, The Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Theatre Network
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Little Willy: the great marionettist Ronnie Burkett is back, with the raucous Daisy Theatre ensemble, and Shakespeare
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ronnie Burkett is back. Call it a reunion, or maybe a homecoming. The show that opens Wednesday at the Roxy for four performances marks the return to this theatre town, and to Theatre Network, of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, High Performance Rodeo, One Yellow Rabbit, Roxy Theatre, The Daisy Theatre, The Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Theatre Network
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Another F!*#@$G Festival! It’s at Theatre Network and the headliner is the Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Not Another F!*#@$F Festival! You say that, Edmonton, but you know you love them. Theatre Network is launching a new festival at the Roxy, of the adult contemporary multi-disciplinary stripe, Feb 7 to 12. You get … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Roxy Theatre, The Cultch, The High Performance Rodeo, Theatre Network
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Wait, there’s more…. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Stay tuned; face forward. There’s more! Intermission’s over, my friends, and Act II of the Edmonton theatre season is about to begin. Freaky Green Eyes, Emma Houghton’s original adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novel, premieres … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Ground Zero Productions, Invisible Practice, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, RISER Edmonton, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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