Tag Archives: Workshop West Playwrights Theatre

Heart-breaking and hopeful: Frank Moher is back onstage, with his own compelling story to tell in Boy Player at Workshop West

Posted on November 8, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a testimonial for the hope-filled insight that family is something you can discover and create for yourself — should your original one be absent, AWOL, screwed-up, or somehow out of the frame … Continue reading →

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What to see: Edmonton, you have stellar choices onstage this weekend

Posted on November 5, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You can’t be thinking about staying home, not this weekend. Edmonton, you have a stellar array of choices for nights out at the theatre this weekend. A much anticipated new stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby, … Continue reading →

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Love, and theatre, to the rescue! Boy Player at Workshop West is Frank Moher’s Edmonton homecoming

Posted on November 2, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Gather round; here’s a real-life theatre story, It starts in tragedy, and crosses borders. Its intertwined motifs are an unlikely knot of loss and love … and show tunes. Its seeds are prairie, yes, but ultra-cosmopolitan, … Continue reading →

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The Ties That Bind: a new season at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre

Posted on September 14, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For their upcoming 48th season, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, devoted to the development and showcasing of the Canadian repertoire and its writers, will feature a trio of mainstage productions from veteran theatre artists with long and … Continue reading →

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The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part two

Posted on July 25, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a tumultuous season, Edmonton theatre got shaken and stirred: big changes, big news,  big anniversaries celebrated, experiments, a homecoming…. Start with that. After years in exile, the Freewill Shakespeare Festival came home to Heritage Amphitheatre … Continue reading →

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A June week on E-town stages: two festivals, a multi-character solo show, a drag queen extravaganza, a Pride party …

Posted on June 3, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A June week in Edmonton theatre: for starters, two festivals, a virtuoso solo show in which one extremely agile actor plays 40 (!) characters, an evening with local drag royalty, a big Pride block party. •The … Continue reading →

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A new Canadian rom-com is the season finale at L’UniThéâtre (and other theatre too this weekend)

Posted on May 22, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The grand finale of L’UniThéâtre’s all-Canadian season is a premiere: a new rom-com by an Edmonton theatre artist, set in a small Franco-Albertan village. Sophie Gareau-Brennan’s bouanderie/boulangerie — doesn’t laundry/bakery sound so much better in French? … Continue reading →

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How high is the price tag attached to working in the arts? Everyone Is Doing Fine at Workshop West, a review

Posted on May 10, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Everyone Is Doing Fine, the season finale at Workshop West, Calgary-based playwright James Odin Wade steps boldly up to a conundrum that leaves the arts and its practitioners stuck between a rock and a hard … Continue reading →

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A weekend to be in the theatre! So many choices, so little time. A 12thnight survey

Posted on May 8, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Put down your rakes, and your clickers, people. There’s a veritable explosion of theatre happening on Edmonton stages this weekend. A surfeit of possibilities: so many choices, so little time. At Shadow, it’s a comedy of … Continue reading →

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At the corner of art and high finance: Everyone Is Doing Fine at Workshop West. Meet playwright James Odin Wade

Posted on May 5, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Everyone Is Doing Fine, a new “comedy-drama” by James Odin Wade, premiering at Workshop West Friday, we meet a couple of stalled art school friends, late ‘20s, with nothing much going on. Sound like people … Continue reading →

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