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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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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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What makes the theatre magical? An Oak Tree at Theatre Yes, a preview

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is nothing predictable, run-of-the-mill (or run-of-deMille for that matter) about the Theatre Yes production that opens a short run Wednesday. Just for starters, An Oak Tree happens in a venue where you’ve probably never seen … Continue reading

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Intermission’s over, take your seats: Act II of the theatre season is about to begin (prospects to intrigue you).

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wait…. There’s more. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. And rehearsals are underway all over town. Goblin: Macbeth, a Spontaneous Theatre Creation, starts previews next week in the Citadel’s Highwire Series. How … Continue reading

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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

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Onstage in Edmonton this weekend, choices! A survey

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your biggest problem this weekend in this theatre town is … choice. That, and the moment of truth for procrastinators. And the possibilities are high-contrast, to put it mildly, from companies of every size, aesthetic, and … Continue reading

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On the dark side of the fine art of storytelling: The Pillowman at Theatre Yes, a review

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a hooded figure, head bowed, waiting for us in a grim basement downtown. It’s a mysterious place we’ve never been before, and, ominously, it’s lined with plastic. Uh-oh. With Martin McDonagh’s 2003 The Pillowman, Theatre … Continue reading

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On the frontier between hilarity and horror: Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman at Theatre Yes, a preview

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Get your shudder muscles ready, Edmonton, for the (very) black and disturbing comedy that opens Thursday in a production from Theatre Yes. As in Yes, The Pillowman is coming for you. The 2003 play by the … Continue reading

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What’s up, Edmonton? Act II of the theatre season is about to begin

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lights up, Edmonton. Take your seats, friends; intermission is over. And Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. The tip-off? Next week, Farren Timoteo’s terrific (and much-travelled solo show Made In Italy returns … Continue reading

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2023: The year in Edmonton theatre, part 2

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2023 (part 2). Here’s a small assortment (in no particular order) of highlights — moments, performances, bright ideas, experiences — of the year of live theatre on Edmonton stages. Home sweet home. 2023 was the year.… … Continue reading

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