Liz Nicholls

A sailor and a salt-water siren: new, kooky, original, and all in rhyming couplets! Gllbert and Sulliver on acid.... see full 12thnight review!

Three celebrity romance novelists, three high-contrast writing styles and points of view, three skilled actors — and a theatrical shortfall since nothing really happens onstage.... Read the full 12thnight review

There's dumb-smart dumb-ass smart-ass genius at work in this time-travelling irresistibly bonkers finale of Grindstone's Accidental Beach trilogy ,inspired by the toxic sludge of Edmonton's toxic ever-shifting Riviera.... read the full 12thnight review!

Five powerful singers and a live band in a fascinating experiment — musical? concert? song cycle with great lighting? — that marries songs to photographs that pulse with narrative possibilities.... And it leaves the story-making to you. Read the full 12thnight review here.

Under the duvet, away from the big bad world there's a microphone: an eccentric charmer of a little musical by two of this town's hottest young triple-threats.... read the 12thnight review

Attention, shoppers! The two perky apple-cheeked characters we meet in this light, bright diversion of a clown show are wonderstruck by the possibilities in grocery shopping.... (read full 12thnight review)

The clowns from corporate head office are here.... (read the full 12thnight review)

The passing of the Crown, and the new queen shines brightly: it's the 30th anniversary of Darrin Hagen's seminal The Edmonton Queen.... (read the 12thnight review)

The joys and the stresses, the agony and the ecstasy of being someone's mother.... (check out the 12thnight review of Michelle Todd's solo confessional)

You should come up and see it some time.... This funny, spirited new comedy by Darrin Hagen gets its bounce from the remarkable (and true!) origin story of a Canadian drag legend.... With riotous performances led by Andrea House as the aging diva Mae West (read the full 12thnight review to find out more...). i