Tag Archives: Workshop West Playwrights Theatre

A holiday show update! There’s more, if you get your act together

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Release your inner elf, part two. An update! More holiday shows are opening this week. You’ve got a big choice on Edmonton stages, and your time, like Scrooge’s, is running low. •It’s A Wonderful Christmas Carol … Continue reading →

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A holly jolly “Christmas horror musical” at Workshop West: Krampus, a review

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you’ve cracked your sweet tooth on the hard candied nut of family togetherness, or you’re blinded by the glare from your neighbour’s seasonal light display, there’s gruesome fun waiting for you at Workshop West. Straight … Continue reading →

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Embrace your inner elf and get festive, at a holiday show this weekend

Posted on December 13, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know, you’re holding out on the festive. And you don’t want to peak too soon. But pick that holly out of your clenched teeth, release your inner elf, succumb to the seasonal jollity, and find … Continue reading →

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‘The perfectly perfect family’ does Christmas: Krampus: A New Musical at Workshop West, a preview

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s beginning to look a lot…. Two original, bona fide homegrown holiday musicals return this week to the stage — both unconventional, both expanded and enhanced from their 2023 editions — to deck the halls. Well, … Continue reading →

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Two off-centre homegrown holiday musicals return, bigger and fancier, this week! First, Grindstone’s Die Harsh. A preview

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the week that two original bona fide homegrown holiday musicals return to the stage — both unconventional, both expanded and enhanced from their 2023 editions — to deck the hall (well, two different halls). … Continue reading →

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What’s new? The weekend on Edmonton stages, that’s what: three new Canadian plays and a musical

Posted on November 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey Edmonton! It’s a weekend to be surprised and excited by something new on the stages of this theatre town. As the country has found out, E-town has longtime cred as a generator and showcase of … Continue reading →

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Heartbreaking and funny, Stars On Her Shoulders premieres at Workshop West. A review.

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Every once in a while you find yourself in the theatre fully absorbed in a world that’s both distant and utterly close at hand. And you laugh through tears. It happened for me at Workshop West … Continue reading →

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Playwright Stephen Massicotte talks about Stars On Her Shoulders, his latest, premiering at Workshop West

Posted on October 31, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In 2002, a story of first love, a dreamscape looped against the horrific backdrop of World War I, changed the life of the graphic designer-turned-actor who’d “jumped into theatre cold.” as he puts it. Since its … Continue reading →

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‘Saints and Rebels’: Workshop West announces a new season and a bold experiment in ticketing

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre turns 46 with a new season, two Canadian premieres, a Christmas show, and a bold invitation to the audience to “pay what you will” for every ticket to every show. “A pilot … Continue reading →

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Hints, signs, omens of spring: theatre possibilities this weekend

Posted on May 24, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the terrific new Conni Massing play Dead Letter, premiering at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre we meet a woman who’s desperate for meaning, obsessed by the unaccountable, hyper-alert to any small sign from the universe that … Continue reading →

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