Tag Archives: Varscona Theatre

The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow, a new World War I play by Neil Grahn, premieres at Shadow Theatre

Posted on November 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca He was “arguably the greatest soldier this country has ever produced,” as playwright Neil Grahn puts it. “And nobody knows his name….” Grahn’s new play The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow, premiering Thursday to open the … Continue reading →

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Don’t look now, but who’s that behind you? The Woman in Black, at Teatro Live! A review.

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Have sympathy for your audience!” roars The Actor (Geoffrey Simon Brown) emphatically at the start of The Woman In Black, the hit thriller that launches the Teatro Live! season at the Varscona. “Draw on your emotions … Continue reading →

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The fun of being scared together: Andrew Ritchie directs The Woman In Black, to open the Teatro Live! season

Posted on October 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “People love to be scared,” says Andrew Ritchie decisively. (And  he’s got a whole movie industry to back him up on that). The genial director of The Woman in Black, the atmospheric horror-thriller opening the Teatro … Continue reading →

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Play into musical: risk-takers at the Fringe. Rob and Chris (Bobby + Tina) – A New Musical

Posted on August 12, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Whenever you wonder if the Fringe losing its experimental zest, along comes a project that embraces the original risk-taker’s proposition of the festival. A show that’s all about having a bright idea rather than a finished … Continue reading →

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The breezy and the sharp in a comedy of (bad) manners: Private Lives at Teatro Live! A review

Posted on July 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I think that very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives….” argues Amanda in Noel Coward’s 1930 comedy of (bad) manners, the season finale at Teatro Live!. It’s a declaration on … Continue reading →

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Teatro Live! announces a new season

Posted on July 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the centre of Teatro Live!’s upcoming 43rd season, announced this past weekend, are revivals of two seminal Stewart Lemoine comedies of very different hue. And the 2024-2025 lineup at a company devoted to comedy in … Continue reading →

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Musical theatre, opera, comedy, hockey: the weekend on Edmonton stages

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On the stages of this theatre town this weekend, you can seek out an exquisite Stephen Sondheim musical, a classic opera buffa, a homegrown comedy with moving undertones. Plus a nutty (and kinda cool) idea by … Continue reading →

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A comedy of adjusted vision: The Oculist’s Holiday at Teatro Live, a review

Posted on June 1, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The title will make you smile. In its way The Oculist’s Holiday, the 2009 Stewart Lemoine comedy with the whimsically archaic handle, is all about optics — vision, perspective, focus, correction. And in the play, set … Continue reading →

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‘Not quite like anything else he’s written’: Belinda Cornish directs a Teatro revival of Lemoine’s The Oculist’s Holiday

Posted on May 31, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Stewart Lemoine play that opens Friday at the Varscona in the Teatro Live! season is certainly a comedy, says Belinda Cornish, who’s directing the first revival of The Oculist’s Holiday since its 2009 Fringe debut. … Continue reading →

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A new play by Neil Grahn launches Shadow Theatre’s upcoming season 31

Posted on May 4, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre will launch its upcoming four-production 31st season with the world premiere of a new play by Edmonton’s Neil Grahn. The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow chronicles the extraordinary life and career of one of … Continue reading →

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