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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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2024: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a chaotic, incoherent year in the world, live theatre, which has itself been under every kind of duress in 2024, stepped up to offer us other perspectives, other visions, characters on personal quests for meaning, … Continue reading
A holiday show update! There’s more, if you get your act together
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Release your inner elf, part two. An update! More holiday shows are opening this week. You’ve got a big choice on Edmonton stages, and your time, like Scrooge’s, is running low. •It’s A Wonderful Christmas Carol … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitol Theatre Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Girl Brain, Grindstone Theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Orange Hub, Rapid Fire Theatre, Straight Edge Theatre, Theatre Network, Thou Art Here Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Embrace your inner elf and get festive, at a holiday show this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know, you’re holding out on the festive. And you don’t want to peak too soon. But pick that holly out of your clenched teeth, release your inner elf, succumb to the seasonal jollity, and find … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, Grindstone Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Straight Edge Theatre, Theatre Network, Thou Art Here Theatre, Whizgiggling Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Goin’ on holiday with Girl Brain: Weekend at Girlies, at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If the view from the collective snowbank is getting you down, your moment to escape is at hand. In their new holiday show Weekend at Girlies, opening Thursday in Theatre Network’s Phoenix Series, the hit sketch … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, Roxy Theatre, sketch comedy, Theatre Network
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There’s magic in those high-strung puppets: Little Dickens, the Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes at Theatre Network, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As Bah Humbug!s encircle the globe at this time of year, know this: There is nothing in the world like Ronnie Burkett’s riotous adults-only Little Dickens, in which the high-strung marionette artistes of the Daisy Theatre, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, marionette theatre, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Theatre Network
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Little Dickens: Ronnie Burkett’s marionettes return to Theatre Network to upend a Christmas classic
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s the old puppeteer joke,” says Ronnie Burkett who has a lifetime supply of same. “Build a holiday show, and you know what you’re doing every December.” Which brings us to Little Dickens, opening Thursday at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Edmonton theatre, puppet theatre, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, The Cultch, Theatre Network
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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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The existentialists from Ummo are back: Mump and Smoot in Exit, at Theatre Network. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Mump and Smoot arrive, as always, from a mysterious place, through the crowd — inhabitants of another mysterious place, the theatre (that’s us!). And, as always, they’re mid-adventure, mid-conversation, en route to the stage. It’s dark; … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bouffon clowns, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, horror clowns, Mump and Smoot, Theatre Network
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Exploring the Great Beyond: ‘Mump and Smoot in Exit’ premieres at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It took them a while to get back here with a show. A decade to be precise. But there was something entirely natural about finding Mump and Smoot and their director Karen Hines last week in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bouffon clowning, Edmonton theatre, Mump and Smoot, Theatre Network
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