Tag Archives: Workshop West

Getting our Canadian stories, our voices, our dreams off the page and onto the stage: meet director Jan Selman

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You could call it “retirement.” After a quarter century at the U of A, in which she has directed every sort of play, taught acting and directing, encouraged young playwrights, commissioned new Canadian plays, sat on … Continue reading →

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A multi-dimensional life in the theatre: the mind- and heart-expansion effect of Jim DeFelice

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With the passing in October of Jim DeFelice, at 87, a multi-talented theatre artist and a true theatre community mentor are, at one blow, gone from us. Without him this theatre town of ours seems a … Continue reading →

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Get your festival on (and other theatre, too) this week

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a three-festival week in this theatre town (in addition to a much anticipated theatre revival and an intriguing opera experiment).The festive season is here, and the moment is at hand for you to venture forth … Continue reading →

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Fun (really!) with Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing, an inspired Theatre Yes 2-night production

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Well, THAT was fun!. A word that is only rarely (I need hardly remind you) applied to productions of Hamlet. The first night of The Play’s The Thing, Theatre Yes’s two-night production of Shakespeare’s longest, most … Continue reading →

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Fending off the weasel en route to the stage: Weasel, noun, verb, and now Beth Graham play, premiering at Studio Theatre

Posted on October 13, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Beth Graham play that premieres Thursday on the Timms stage takes us into the heart of a mysterious world that is collaborative but hierarchical, creative but rule-bound, populated by high-octane people pretending to be someone … Continue reading →

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Rising Sun Theatre throws a magic/music bash

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Magic and music: some of this theatre town’s top-drawer talent in both are featured in Rising Sun Theatre’s benefit bash at the Gateway Theatre Oct. 1. Ron Pearson, a virtuoso magician/illusionist with a theatrical bent (Minerva: … Continue reading →

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The body in motion: Expanse is back in the Chinook Series

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It starts with the body. As its name suggests, Expanse sets the body in motion in space — and celebrates what happens next. In the ever-expansive movement arts festival curated by Azimuth Theatre and returning to … Continue reading →

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Looking back: Edmonton theatre in 2017

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shakespeare In Love, the playful, sumptuously romantic opening gambit of Daryl Cloran’s first season as the Citadel’s new artistic  director, took us into the world of 17th century London theatre. Crazy deadlines, fraught rehearsals, fragile egos, … Continue reading →

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A Sterling year onstage: nominations for Edmonton’s theatre awards

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A musical comedy in which a town and its citizens are transformed by putting on a show — a notion that Edmonton can enthusiastically get behind — proved the top choice of jurors as the 30th … Continue reading →

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