Tag Archives: Theatre Network

Edmonton has play dates: here’s a dozen intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s time to play. After a year of continuing struggle, with rising production costs and dwindling funding, theatre companies and artists are finding their way back to stages large and small. Our mighty summer Fringe, as … Continue reading →

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The year in Edmonton theatre: the 2023-24 Sterling Award nominations

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A “surreal theatre dance fantasia” that premiered as the centrepiece of this year’s SkirtsAfire Festival proved decisively the top choice of jurors as the 35th annual Sterling Awards nominations were announced Thursday at the Westbury Theatre. … Continue reading →

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The slow unstoppable spread of a rumour: Jezec Sanders’ Where Foxes Lie at Nextfest

Posted on June 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a very Nextfest sort of question: “What is something I have yet to try my hand at?” Jezec Sanders, who evidently has never seen a comfort zone he didn’t want to exit (stage left), has … Continue reading →

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‘An ode to my community’: Ms. Pat’s Kitchen at Nextfest. Meet actor/playwright Jameela McNeil

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you saw Jameela McNeil’s blistering performance as the sister of an ambitious Black boxer in The Royale last season at the Citadel, you already known something about the intensity and focus of this young theatre … Continue reading →

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A play and a playwright with blue-chip hockey credentials: Your Heart Gushes Lavender at Nextfest 2024

Posted on June 2, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In theatre we don’t get a lot of chances to meet people from the world that actor/ playwright Tori Kibblewhite conjures for us in Your Heart Is Gushing Lavender, premiering on the mainstage at Nextfest 2024. … Continue reading →

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‘New artists, new art’: Nextfest returns to the Roxy for a 29th annual edition

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What are they up to, the next generation of artists, the up-and-comers? Your chance to find out is close at hand. Nextfest, Edmonton’s multi-disciplinary festival of emerging arts, returns today to take over Theatre Network’s Roxy … Continue reading →

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Get your festival on (and other theatre, too) this week

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a three-festival week in this theatre town (in addition to a much anticipated theatre revival and an intriguing opera experiment).The festive season is here, and the moment is at hand for you to venture forth … Continue reading →

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Do the minor mysteries of the cosmos add up? Dead Letter, a new Conni Massing play premieres at Workshop West

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the great theatre archive there’s no shortage of plays that involve mail, misdirected, stolen, forged. There are plays constructed entirely of exchanges of letters. Last year Irish Repertory Theatre in New York did an entire … Continue reading →

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This weekend in a theatre town: get festive, see what’s onstage

Posted on May 3, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On the stages of this theatre town this weekend is a high-contrast array of entertainment possibilities, from a comic adaptation of a classic novel to the enactment of an advice column to a full-fledged festival. Have … Continue reading →

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Jabulani: a new arts festival, and a new play, to celebrate Edmonton’s African, Caribbean, and Black Albertan culture

Posted on May 1, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A new Edmonton arts festival makes its debut this week. And it’s designed to celebrate, and showcase, the rich diversity of Edmonton’s African, Caribbean, and Black Albertan culture. In the inaugural edition of the Ribbon Rouge … Continue reading →

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