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Getting our Canadian stories, our voices, our dreams off the page and onto the stage: meet director Jan Selman
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You could call it “retirement.” After a quarter century at the U of A, in which she has directed every sort of play, taught acting and directing, encouraged young playwrights, commissioned new Canadian plays, sat on … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ArtSpace Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jabulani Arts Festival, Small Matters Productions, Studio Theatre, Theatre Network, U of A drama department, Workshop West
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A family haunting: Jupiter, Colleen Murphy’s new Canadian epic at Theatre Network. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “The future doesn’t happen ahead of time,” says a character in Jupiter, clinging to shards of hope for change. But the baleful grandeur, and dark vivid theatricality, of this new multi-generational family epic from the dauntless … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Colleen Murphy, Edmonton theatre, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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A family, a living room, a dog, and, yes, conflict! Colleen Murphy’s new play Jupiter premieres at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The last time a Colleen Murphy play was onstage in this town, a Theatre Network production five years ago, the gore flew so enthusiastically that the front rows of the audience were equipped with splatter shields … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Arts Club Theatre Company, Colleen Murphy, Edmonton theatre, Theatre Network
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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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