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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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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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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre Creation, Teatro Live!, Theatre Yes, U of A drama department, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2024: remembering the year in Edmonton theatre, part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2024 (part 2). Here’s a small assortment of highlights — performances, moments, scenes, ideas — in the year of live theatre in Edmonton. But first, the year’s saddest news: as the current 2024-2025 season began, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Jabulani Festival, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Small Matters Productions, Teatro Live!, Theatre Prospero, Thou Art Here Theatre, U of A drama department, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A multi-dimensional life in the theatre: the mind- and heart-expansion effect of Jim DeFelice
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With the passing in October of Jim DeFelice, at 87, a multi-talented theatre artist and a true theatre community mentor are, at one blow, gone from us. Without him this theatre town of ours seems a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Studio Theatre, Theatre Network Playwrights Theatre, U of A drama department, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West
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Lethal power games as performance art: The Maids introduces a new indie theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s something exactly right about entering the theatre through an unmarked door, down the stairs and into a space that invites reinvention and expands before your very eyes. It’s a world ready and waiting for actors … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jean Genet, Pendennis Building, Putrid Brat, U of A drama department
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Two actors, a passion, and a mission: Jean Genet’s The Maids, three years in the making, opens downtown
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the chiller of a play that opens October 25 in an eerie downtown basement, you’ll watch two sisters act out a dangerous, nerve-wracking, possibly lethal, role-playing game with each other — in a theatre of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jean Genet, Pendennis Building, U of A drama department
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A theatre story in a dark world, like ours: Indecent at Studio Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “From ashes they rise…” Monday night I saw a memorable play on the Timm’s stage, that steps in and out of time to tell a theatre story, a real one. Not only does Indecent connect us … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Paula Vogel, U of A drama department, U of A Studio Theatre
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We’ve lost a giant: celebrating the life of Thomas Peacocke, the small-town kid who changed Canadian theatre
Last fall, theatre here and across the country sustained a huge blow with the passing ot Tom Peacocke at 89. It still seems hard to believe. In him the much diluted term “legacy” is restored to its full lustre and … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Genie Awards, National Theatre School, Studio Theatre, Torches Theatre, U of A drama department
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Some things I learned at the Sterlings
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here are some things I learned at the sold-out 35th annual Sterling Awards bash Monday night, celebrating the season just past in Edmonton theatre. Written by April Banigan with co-hosts Matt Schuurman and Sue Goberdhan, directed by … Continue reading
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Tagged 2023 Sterling Awards, Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Gordon's Big Bald Head, Grindstone Theatre, Guys in Disguise, Northern Light Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Tiny Bear Jaws, U of A drama department, Varscona Theatre
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Wrapping the self in fantasy: Strange/Familiar, a new ‘autofictional’ play at the Gateway
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a telling moment in Strange/Familiar, a new play by Liam Monaghan, we see the protagonist open a suitcase. Liam, who shares a name with the playwright in this “autofictional play,” seems to have packed light: … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Theatre Outré, U of A drama department
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