Tag Archives: Theatre Network

PattyZee@TheRoxy: Theatre Network launches a new cabaret series

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Music and storytelling merge at close range!” Actor/singer Patricia Zentilli, one of the country’s most accomplished cabaret artists, says that’s the closest she can come to a definition of cabaret. And Edmonton audiences will have a … Continue reading →

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The new theatre season begins: hey, Edmonton has play dates!

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “And the wall keeps out the enemy/ And we build the wall to keep us free….” —Hadestown In Hadestown, the Broadway-bound musical whose out-of-town opening happens at Edmonton’s largest playhouse the Citadel (Nov. 11 to Dec. … Continue reading →

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Theatre Network’s 43rd season opens with a Trout premiere

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!/  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun/  The frumious Bandersnatch!” — Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found Theatre Network ventures through the looking glass … Continue reading →

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Celebrating the Edmonton theatre season: Irma Voth, Crazy For You, Stupid Fucking Bird lead the 30th annual Sterling Awards

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Art and life got down, mixed it up, and partied together at the 30th anniversary Sterling Awards gala Monday night, celebrating the best of the Edmonton theatre season. Three productions that, in dramatically different ways, spoke … Continue reading →

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A Sterling year onstage: nominations for Edmonton’s theatre awards

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A musical comedy in which a town and its citizens are transformed by putting on a show — a notion that Edmonton can enthusiastically get behind — proved the top choice of jurors as the 30th … Continue reading →

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“A very Nextfest sort of play”: Meet two creators

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “What would be the craziest thing that could happen next?” That’s the question — a very Nextfest sort of question — that playwright Ashleigh Hicks asked herself, moment by moment, as she was writing Garnish, premiering … Continue reading →

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Get splashed by the new wave of artists: Nextfest is back Thursday

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “OMG, it’s the best part of the year!” — Stuart McDougall of In Arms Collective, creators of Nest Hold that thought. It’s the eve of the innovative arts festival that tosses the leading question “so, what’s … Continue reading →

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Hey, emerging audience! it’s a weekend to go out to the theatre

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s always anticipation in theatre, as there should be, about  “emerging” playwrights, directors, actors. There are whole festivals devoted to them, like the upcoming 2017 edition of Nextfest. Leave aside for another day the tricky question … Continue reading →

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Escape into the playful grown-up world of art: Chris Craddock’s Irma Voth at Theatre Network. A review

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Enter the Roxy, and see what a sense of possibility looks like.  A shallow stage is dominated by a beautiful translucent wall made entirely of framed windows. Windows that will glow promisingly, conjure paintings or cityscapes, … Continue reading →

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Chris Craddock talks about Irma Voth: novel, theatre, and film meet onstage

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Naturally playwright/ actor/ master improviser/ filmmaker/ screenwriter/ “double-dad” Chris Craddock is relaxed at pre-12-hour rehearsal breakfast in Strathcona last week. Why wouldn’t he be? Surely, his life of late is a flat landscape of non-eventful tranquillity … Continue reading →

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