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Summer theatre choices, including three in their last week: a little 12thnight survey
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wakey wakey! It’s your last chance this week to catch … •The Lion King. Julie Taymor’s 1997 musical, a non-pareil triumph in conjuring an imaginary world, has been here a couple of times before under the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Defiance Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Yes, Varscona Theatre
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Lifting the veil between the living and the dead: Lucky Charm, a little review of a very cool show
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I’m coming very late to this (a week away in the east is to blame, more about this later). But I went a séance Friday night. It was in an unexpected place, a bungalow on a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Defiance Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Houdini, site-specific theatre, Theatre Yes
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The fascinating mystery of Mrs. Houdini: Louise Casemore’s Lucky Charm premieres at Found Fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know how a question slides into your brain at an oblique angle — and takes over — when you’re really supposed to be thinking about something else? Actor/playwright Louise Casemore has been there. And the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2025, Harry Houdini, site-specific theatre, Theatre Yes
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The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Remembering the 2024-2025 theatre season — in its performances, its design inspirations, its risky experiments, its moments of magic (and/or crazy live-ness) — and its saddest, most irreplaceable losses. Start with those. The passing of wonderful … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, fenceless theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Mayfield Theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Backyard curtain time: Theatre Yes brings it home with The Doorstep Plays
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The ancient contract between The People and The Theatre gets an intriguing clause, and the personal touch, in the latest venture by the ever-adventurous Theatre Yes. With The Doorstep Plays, they bring the theatre to you … Continue reading
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The Doorstep Plays: showtime for emerging playwrights in your own backyard
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Make yourself at home, people; you’re already at the theatre. All you have to do is step outside your door, and it’s showtime in your own personal venue. Theatre Yes, specialists in theatre that happens in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton emerging playwrights, Edmonton theatre, Theatre Yes
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The rise of RISER: a new works festival from Common Ground
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca RISER has risen. Again, and in a new, expanded form. Edmonton, where theatre is the leading arts industry, was always the right place for the visionary national initiative — launched by Toronto’s Why Not Theatre — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Found Festival, RISER Edmonton, SkirtsaFire Festival, Theatre Yes, Why Not Theatre
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Hey, wanna see a show? Look at your choices on Edmonton stages this week!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a week to expand your horizons at the theatre…. Don’t even think about staying home. Your choices are many: Broadway musicals of every size and personality, improv, a clown show that takes … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Theatre, MUNT, Rapid Fire Theatre, Small Matters Productions, Theatre Yes, U of A Studio Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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Is theatre itself a form of hypnosis? An Oak Tree at Theatre Yes, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the Aviary, a little performance space off the beaten track that’s nobody’s idea of a conventional theatre (except there’s a bar), something weird is happening. It’s magic and you have to be there to experience … Continue reading
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