Liz Nicholls
Edmonton Journal
Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Remembering Al Rasko: an arts life behind the scenes in Edmonton
Memories of veteran Edmonton arts administrator Al Rasko, who died in September, age 70. → Read More
Another record-breaking Edmonton Fringe Festival exits stage left
That Was Then This Is Fringe, the 35th anniversary edition of our monster 11 day-and-night summer theatre bash, which ended Sunday night, edged itself past its 2015 record. By Sunday afternoon, with more shows to come in the evening, just over the 121,400 tickets, the tally of last year's record-breaking edition, had been sold to the Fringe's 213 indoor shows. → Read More
Folk Lordz turns heritage into improv at the Edmonton Fringe
Folk Lordz: Warriors & Fools, playing on Stage 4 at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, combines two high-contrast modes of storytelling, from indigenous oral history and Jewish literature — and then adds a genre chosen by the audience at each show. → Read More
Stage news: Northern Light's new season and other theatrical matters
At 40, Northern Light produced the riskiest show of last season (Wish). The company turns 41 in 2016-2017 with Anxiety, a musical new to Canada, and a black comedy that’s never been onstage b… → Read More
We're invited for cocktails, at Pam's: signature Teatro comedy returns
AFter 15 years Teatro La Quindicina brings back its signature 1986 comedy Cocktails at Pam's. → Read More
Romeo and Juliet: Relationships at the heart of Freewill production
Marianne Copithorne's stylized, indeterminately modern production of Romeo and Juliet, the second of Freewill Shakespeare's summer season, sets about creating a civic landscape of hair-trigger violence, one encounter at a time. → Read More
A summer of love for Edmonton's Freewill Shakespeare Festival
Starting this week, every second night, Hunter Cardinal and Cayley Thomas, triple-threats for whom that term falls quite short, will be doing something they've never done before. They'll be onstage outdoors, flat on their backs, watching the sun go down in Hawrelak Park. And (spoiler alert) they'll be dead. → Read More
The secret of improv, a new musical, and more Edmonton theatre happening
THINGS I LEARNED IN THEATRE-LAND THIS WEEK: A. From Adam Meggido, half the amazingly articulate and quick-witted London duo arriving this week to improvise entire Shakespeare plays (Rhapsodes, at Improvaganza 2016), I learned that of all the verse forms you — and I do mean YOU, not me! — could improvise, the hardest of the all is the “Pushkin sonnet.” I’d never heard of it. → Read More
Award-winning English improvisers custom-create Shakespeare at Edmonton's Improvaganza 2016
This week, a pair of English improvisers — stars of the first improv show in the world to be nominated for, and win, a major theatre award — will travel half way around the globe. They will take to… → Read More
Improvaganza 2016 brings international stars to Edmonton
This week, a pair of English improvisers — stars of the first improv show in the world to be nominated for, and win, a major theatre award — will travel half way around the globe. They will take to the stage in Edmonton at Improvaganza, the 16th annual edition of Rapid Fire Theatre's international comedy festival. They'll ask you, the audience, for stories from your own lives. And from those, on… → Read More
Sterling Award nominations salute the best in Edmonton theatre
A show in which the cast returns from the smouldering ashes of a haunted past to complete their contractual obligation with the audience proved to be the top choice of jurors as the 29th annual Ste… → Read More
Swallow returns to Edmonton to ask hard questions about our future
Frente Theatre Collective borrows its name from Spanish: to be "en frente" is to be out in front. And in the eight years since Swallow premièred, in a Frente production at Azimuth Theatre, it's still out in front, its environmental edge only sharpened by time, thinks playwright Leslea Kroll. → Read More
Citadel Theatre announces new artistic director
The Citadel Theatre has found its new artistic director. One of the country’s plum theatre gigs will go to Daryl Cloran, currently the artistic director of Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops. As announced Monday the award-winning 42-year-old director, who’s worked at most of the major theatres across Canada, except the Citadel, replaces Bob Baker in September at the helm of Edmonton’s largest,… → Read More
A book is your opening gambit at this year's Kids Fest in St. Albert
There’s a world where books open — along with imaginations — and birds fly out and build nests in trees. And it’s just up the road on the banks of the mighty Sturgeon in St. Albert. Tha… → Read More
A book is your opening gambit at this year's Kids Fest in St. Albert
There’s a world where books open — along with imaginations — and birds fly out and build nests in trees. And it’s just up the road on the banks of the mighty Sturgeon in St. Albert. Tha… → Read More
Edmonton's Kill Your Television is back, with The Conversion
The implications of "converting," in all its political, religious, sexual permutations, are the dramatic engine of the new play. If you're getting the idea that Kill Your Television's The Conversion, premièring Thursday in the Arts at the Barns season, has been a long time in the making, you're right. → Read More
Studio Theatre's Or The Whale a handsome, poetic stage fantasia
In Or The Whale, Chris Bullough's new stage fantasia on Herman Melville's weighty whaling novel Moby-Dick, the man who's introduced himself, conversationally, with "call me Ishmael" is remembering an experience where "the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open. " → Read More
Edmonton Cappies nominations celebrate high school theatre
“Only thing to do is jump/ Only thing to do is jump over the moon,” sings an edgy performance artist in Rent, the 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical. That kind of vaulting, gr… → Read More
Edmonton's Shadow Theatre unveils 25th season
Shadow Theatre will be home, in style, in the newly renovated Varscona, for their upcoming 25th anniversary season. In honour of both celebratory occasions, the company welcomes back one of its co-founders, lost these many years to the TV world. → Read More
Onstage in Edmonton this week: black comedy, tragic musical, musical film noir
If you haven’t seen Gordon yet, the extremely black Morris Panych comedy currently defying family values stereotypes at Theatre Network, it’s your last weekend. Bradley Moss’s cra… → Read More