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There’ll be much mistletoe-ing and hearts will be glowing … the festive season begins on Edmonton stages
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Some day soon we all will be together….” This week, actually, the festive season onstage can now officially begin. •Ebenezer Scrooge (John Ullyatt), a misanthrope with a frozen heart will stride briskly onto the Citadel’s Maclab … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Girl Brain, Grindstone Theatre, LightningCloud Productions, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Paper Crown Theatre, Puddle of Mud, Rapid Fire Theatre, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre, Vohon Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
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A test of comic timing and ingenuity: The 39 Steps launches Farren Timoteo’s artistic directorship at Teatro Live!, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It seems exactly right, inspired really, that Farren Timoteo should launch his Teatro Live! artistic directorship of the comedy theatre company with a show that turns a 1935 Hitchcock spy thriller into a manically high-speed, hilariously … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Hitchcock movies, John Buchan, spy thrillers, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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A week of bounty in Edmonton theatre, a 12thnight survey
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a week of bounty in Edmonton theatre (your biggest problem is choice). Much-awaited new plays are premiering and so is a full-bodied multi-generational dance/theatre extravaganza. A gem of a new musical continues its run. Continuing … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged Biederman Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mile Zero Dance, Persistent Myth Productions, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Re-imagining your inheritance: Morningside Road, a beautiful new Canadian Celtic musical, at Shadow
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One of the haunting songs in Morningside Road, the “new Canadian Celtic musical” that blows open the Shadow Theatre season, wonders about the remarkable way the past is never black-and-white in memory. How does it get … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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A change in artistic leadership at Shadow Theatre: the multi-talented Lana Michelle Hughes will be the new artistic director
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca After 35 years, a torch is being passed at Shadow Theatre. At the end of the 2025-2026 season, John Hudson, a co-founder of the company and its artistic director from the start, is retiring. Stepping into … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Wait, there’s more…. Fringe holdovers next week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Did it just dawn on you that Fringe Full of Stars ends Sunday night? And your big plans to navigate your way to the Fringe and its 223-show galaxy of possibilities just haven’t materialized so far? … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2025, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2025, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe holdovers, Varscona Theatre
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A new season, and a new artistic director, for Teatro Live! Farren Timoteo brings his blue-chip Teatro cred home
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Teatro Live! has a new season — and, starting Sept. 1, a new artistic director. “Comedy is powerful…. That’s my place in the universe!” declares Farren Timoteo, looking delighted (his at-rest expression) after a day auditioning … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Musical Theatre Company, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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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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A vintage ’60s comedy done up deluxe(ly) at Teatro: The Odd Couple, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The sound of an audience laughing out loud is something to be cherished — especially if it’s live, and you’re there among the people. One of the classics of old-school American comedy returns, in style, to the stage … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Neil Simon, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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Into the woods, a screwball talent search: On The Banks of the Nut at Teatro. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In On The Banks Of the Nut, the vintage Stewart Lemoine screwball comedy getting an expertly acted revival at Teatro Live! (its first in 15 years) you’ll repeatedly hear six words bound to up the ante … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, screwball comedy, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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