Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Intermission’s over, and Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. Your nights out at the theatre are in progress. Rehearsals are happening in theatres across town. At Shadow (opening Jan. 22) Michael Peng shares the st... See more

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2025: here’s a small selection of performances, design inspirations, moments, experiences, bright ideas (in no particular order) that have stayed with me. You will have your own personal assortment (feel free to let your mind... See more

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2025: What a crazy, scary year it’s been. The world seems impossibly fractious, incoherent, unrecognizable. Can anyone really say they feel at home there? But the full-throttle invasion of screens of every size by A.I. has ma... See more

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca ’Twas the nights before Christmas, and all through the house…. Shows. Yes, it’s a big opening night tonight, gift-wrapped, on Edmonton stages: •Kris Kringle is the guest of honour through Tuesday at the vintage Capitol Theatr... See more

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Christmas show is the natural home of the flashback, ’tis true. (I give you Scrooge’s night course in how to not be a relentless jerk). But it’s a special kind of Christmas show that opens with an amusingly truncated wart... See more