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Merry, merry … further suggestions for your holiday entertainment this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the week you can get Santa to say Merry Christmas to you in a language of your choice — for $4.38 (including fees). It’s also the week you can go backstage in the notoriously … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Ballet Edmonton, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Festival Players, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shumka, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Prospero, Varscona Theatre, Whizgiggling Productions
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Holding the torch in a man’s world: The Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921 at Northern Light Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca History is the springboard for The Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921, the cunningly knotted little play that opens the Northern Light Theatre season in Trevor Schmidt’s crackling production. The title reveals the small-town crime, recorded by … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Linda Wood Edwards, Northern Light Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Linda Wood Edwards reimagines a mysterious chapter in our history: The Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921 at Northern Light
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In December 26, 1921, just outside the small Alberta town of Big Valley, a brothel started by an enterprising woman burned to the ground.Narrow escapes ensued, as duly reported by The Big Valley News that week. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta history, Big Valley, Edmonton theatre, Linda Wood Edwards, MAA and PAA Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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What’s up in Edmonton theatre this weekend? Have a peek
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What’s up in Edmonton theatre this weekend? Oh, you know, the usual…. A new theatre is glowing from the inside out. Shows are ending their runs, a live season of Die-Nasty is about to begin, Opera … Continue reading
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Tagged Bright Young Things, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Die-Nasty, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Opera Nuova, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Varscona Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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Noodling with The Stroganoffs: Die-Nasty returns with the first of three mini-seasons
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A weekday morning in the life of an improviser: Wayne Jones is hanging with Chekhov. He’s spent the a.m. watching The Seagull and Uncle Vanya. Who does that? The producer/artistic director of the 30th annual … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Die-Nasty, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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The comedy of excavation: Hiraeth at the Varscona in a Bright Young Things production. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a visceral way, there’s nothing more gut-wrenching than hope. It puts your dreams into a never-ending spin cycle. You can’t get a grip on grief, or heartbreak. You can’t even grab onto sadness properly, much … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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It’s the theatre season, and you have options this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, there’s a Theatre Season (now, there’s a term that’s gotten a little rusty) going on in this town. There’s live theatre in your weekend — two openings Friday night alone — and you have options. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Geoffrey Simon Brown, Northern Light Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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Finding comedy in deep places: Hiraeth premieres in a Bright Young Things production
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that premieres Friday on the Varscona stage in a Bright Young Things production, is a test case of sorts for the uncanny way comedy gets a special access pass to the deepest, most serious … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Rachel Peake, Teatro La Quindicina, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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In the kingdom of high spirits: Fever Land, the live season finale at Teatro. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca How do you get to Fever Land? The kingdom where your temperature heats up, your spirit rises, your vivacity escalates, and that gray clammy feeling is vanquished? Try the theatre, live and in person. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Giselle, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, The Erlking, Varscona Theatre
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Jenny McKillop: meet the star of Teatro’s live in-person season finale Fever Land
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the live in-person grand finale to Teatro La Quindicina’s highly compressed summer season of filmed productions, we meet a shy, unassuming junior high Home Ec teacher who sings in a choir. In Winnipeg. In the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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