Tag Archives: Varscona Theatre

A test of comic timing and ingenuity: The 39 Steps launches Farren Timoteo’s artistic directorship at Teatro Live!, a review

Posted on November 16, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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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A week of bounty in Edmonton theatre, a 12thnight survey

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Re-imagining your inheritance: Morningside Road, a beautiful new Canadian Celtic musical, at Shadow

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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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A change in artistic leadership at Shadow Theatre: the multi-talented Lana Michelle Hughes will be the new artistic director

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Wait, there’s more…. Fringe holdovers next week

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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A new season, and a new artistic director, for Teatro Live! Farren Timoteo brings his blue-chip Teatro cred home

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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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Summer theatre choices, including three in their last week: a little 12thnight survey

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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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A vintage ’60s comedy done up deluxe(ly) at Teatro: The Odd Couple, a review

Posted on July 18, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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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Into the woods, a screwball talent search: On The Banks of the Nut at Teatro. A review

Posted on May 31, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

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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The moment for a screwball comedy and a take-charge heroine: Teatro Live! revives On The Banks Of The Nut, a preview

Posted on May 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Have you lost your sense of fun? If it’s crossed your mind lately to wonder how on earth everything has turned out much worse that you ever imagined, it might just be the moment for a … Continue reading →

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