Tag Archives: Workshop West Playwrights Theatre

Springboards, Workshop West’s new play festival, springs back

Posted on March 20, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca After its return last year for the first time in more than a decade, Springboards springs back this week. And with this edition of Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s signature new play festival, works-in-progress by some 19 … Continue reading →

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Behind the red door: a Forever Home for Rapid Fire Theatre

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A Forever Home is for dreaming in. For feeling you have a place in the world, imagining your potential, getting creative.  At 42, Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton’s premier improv company and its longest running, is experienced … Continue reading →

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Unsung: Tales From The Front Line, living portraits of the health care people who risked everything to keep us safe. A review

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What just happened here? That leading question is the raison d’être of the “performance installation” currently running at Workshop West. In the ongoing COVID pandemic,  frontline healthcare workers have risked everything to do their jobs keeping … Continue reading →

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Unsung: Tales From The Front Line, real-life stories from health care workers in a new ‘performance installation’

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are dramatic schisms in history that divide our lives into the Before and the After. 9-11 was one. The pandemic is another, says Heather Inglis. “It’s the defining moment of our lifetime.” “Something significant happened … Continue reading →

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Wait, there’s more…. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Stay tuned; face forward. There’s more! Intermission’s over, my friends, and Act II of the Edmonton theatre season is about to begin. Freaky Green Eyes, Emma Houghton’s original adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novel, premieres … Continue reading →

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2022: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 2

Posted on December 20, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a small sampling, in no particular order, of assorted highlights from a year when live theatre on Edmonton stages rose to the occasion, and did what theatre can do best, conjure worlds through other eyes, … Continue reading →

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Face the dusk: off the couch everyone, and into the theatre this weekend

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Our outdoor colour scheme has gone monochromatic; something weird has happened to the evening lighting. There is an obvious fix: face the gathering darkness, arise from the couch and go to the theatre. There’s been a … Continue reading →

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Flying too near the sun: the hunger for artistic inspiration in Dora Maar: the wicked one, a review

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Images of fire, flames, burning, melting are everywhere in Dora Maar: the wicked one, a compelling new solo play by Beth Graham and Daniela Vlaskalic (The Drowning Girls, Comrades, Mules) presented by Workshop West Playwrights Theatre … Continue reading →

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A cutting edge artist in her own right: Dora Maar: the wicked one, at Workshop West

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the solo play that launches the Workshop West Playwrights Theatre season Thursday you’ll meet a remarkable artist, a multi-media groundbreaker in the ‘30s and ‘40s. She was a cutting edge photographer with commercial cred and … Continue reading →

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Workshop West announces a new season devoted to Canadian plays and their creators

Posted on September 16, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre bookends its upcoming 44th “Persistence of Vision” season, announced Thursday, in a way that has always characterized a theatre company devoted to the development and showcasing of new Canadian plays and their … Continue reading →

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