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Ya gotta laugh: Teatro Live’s 45th anniversary season of comedies, opening this weekend with The Cottage
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca (from July 29, 2026). A laughing matter. “I read it and laughed out loud. And I chase that.” Words to live by when you’re the new artistic director of Teatro Live!, choosing plays to program in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Farren Timoteo, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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Macabre and brilliant, a particularly theatrical kind of ingenuity: some thoughts on Yaga at Shadow
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the nearly-last moment this past weekend I got a chance to see what happens when one of the country’s smartest young playwriting talents tangles with a macabre Slavic myth — and has her way with … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Kat Sandler, murder mysteries, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Read the chicken bones: A big opening night in Edmonton theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Let’s start with what you say….You say I fly in a mortar and pestle, sweeping a broom behind me to cover my tracks, eating naughty children, their fingers, legs, and guts, their earlobes, and, best of all, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anne of Green Gables, Baba Yaga, Carter-Ryan Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Kat Sandler, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, Varscona Theatre
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‘Ya gotta spin to win’: Rumpelstiltskin, Alberta Musical Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Ya gotta spin to win,” sings the be-sequinned hustler TV host (Jayden Leung) in the opening number of Rumpelstiltskin. And, hey, it turns out that if you’ve already got a good thing going, you gotta spin … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Musical Theatre Company, Brothers Grimm, Edmonton theatre, Rumpelstiltskin, theatre for young audiences, Varscona Theatre
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An update: Hang on, there’s more! Fringe holdovers next week in three locations
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Did you forget? I have to break it to you: the curtain will come down on Fringe Unforgettable Sunday night after 11 days and nights. Your grand plan to cut a swath through the 209-show Fringe … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2026, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatrem, Fringe 2026, Fringe holdovers, Rapid Fire Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Laughter and more: Farren Timoteo announces an upcoming Teatro Live! 45th anniversary season of comedies
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A laughing matter. “I read it and laughed out loud. And I chase that.” Words to live by when you’re the new artistic director of Teatro Live!, choosing plays to program for the upcoming 45th anniversary … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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‘Mirth! mirth!’ Cocktails at Pam’s returns to Teatro Live! with the bubbly
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you ever suspected that human civilization is built on sand, or possibly the cubes in an ice bucket, you’re going to love the way the perfect hostess looks around her living room in the opening … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cocktails at Pam's, Edmonton theatre, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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We’re invited to a ’60s party: Cocktails at Pam’s, Teatro Live! revives a signature Lemoine comedy. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Forty years ago a theatre company blithely outside the Canadian theatre mainstream invited Fringe audiences to a ‘60s cocktail party. In Cocktails at Pam’s, dressed-up people kept arriving at Pam’s place. Gimlets and gibsons got made, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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New season new boss at Shadow Theatre: meet artistic director Lana Michelle Hughes
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca New season. New boss. At Shadow Theatre, Lana Michelle Hughes, the company’s multi-talented new artistic director (only their second in a 33-year history), has announced an all-Canadian quartet of productions. Hughes’ debut lineup has a striking … Continue reading
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Tagged Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Kat Sandler, Nextfest, Promise Productions, Send in the Girls Burlesque, Shadow Theatre, University of Alberta, Varscona Theatre
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A Michelin star performance by Andrew MacDonald-Smith in Fully Committed, at Teatro Live!, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A phone starts ringing before our unemployed actor hero even arrives at his day job for a shift in the underworld — at the reservation desk hidden in the nether regions of the hottest, hippest Manhattan … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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