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SkirtsAfire Festival Announces New Artistic Producer
by BWW News Desk - June 01, 2023
SkirtsAfire has announced the new Artistic Producer of the festival, Amanda Goldberg. Over the next year, Amanda will work alongside the outgoing Artistic Director, Annette Loiselle, in preparation for the 2024 festival.
Previews: Rising Sun Theatre Presents WE GOT RHYTHM! at Edmonton's Nina Haggerty Centre For The Arts
by Sarah Dussome - May 25, 2023
Experience the rhythms of everyday life in an imaginative new way!
JazzFest Reveals Lineup of Free Shows
by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2023
The Festival has announced the opportunities for music lovers of all backgrounds and tastes to try some free, or admission by donation, jazz music from June 28 to 30 in three cool venues, during lunch and happy hour.   
Review: PRISON DANCER is the Spectacular Grand Finale of The Citadel's 2022/2023 Season
by Sarah Dussome - May 12, 2023
This upbeat new musical features an effervescent all-Filipino cast.
Teatro Live! Presents Brand New Play LISTEN, LISTEN
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2023
This has been a busy season of innovation and reinvention at Teatro Live!, but there's one tradition to which they are adhering, and this is that a brand new play in the spring can be a wonderful thing. To that end, the company has the world premiere of Listen, Listen, a bracing and vivacious comedy written by the noted Edmonton-born playwright and screenwriter Elyne Quan, playing at the Varscona Theatre from May 26 to June 11.
Review: Margaret Atwood's THE PENELOPIAD Opens at Edmonton's Walterdale Theatre
by Sarah Dussome - May 04, 2023
This slow-burn historical fantasy features all-female cast.
Review: FIRST METIS MAN OF ODESA Arrives at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre
by Sarah Dussome - April 29, 2023
Edmontonian Matt MacKenzie and Odesa-born Mariya Khomutova paint a hope-filled portrait of their lives amid unprecedented circumstances.
FLOP! Comes to Edmonton in May
by BWW News Desk - April 26, 2023
 Edmonton will once again become an ‘out-of-town tryout’ city when a brand new and fully improvised musical called FLOP! premieres in Edmonton before heading Off-Broadway to New York City in the fall. Edmonton’s own Ron Pederson (MadTV, Canadian Comedy Award Winner), as well as Ashley Botting (Second City, Because News, What We Do In The Shadows), star in a show where anything can happen based off of audience suggestions.
Review: THE ODD COUPLE Earns Big Laughs at St. Albert Dinner Theatre
by Sarah Dussome - April 21, 2023
Neil Simon’s witty 1965 comedy follows the ups and downs of a turbulent friendship.
Collider Festival Returns to The Citadel Theatre
by BWW News Desk - April 20, 2023
The Citadel Theatre’s annual festival of new play development returns once again, featuring readings of four new plays, two artist-led workshops and premiere productions of new works on the Citadel’s stages.
Review: PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL Charms Edmonton
by Sarah Dussome - April 12, 2023
The touring Broadway adaptation of Gary Marshall’s beloved film features strong performances and a rock music-infused score.
PRISON DANCER: THE MUSICAL Premieres At The Citadel This May
by BWW News Desk - April 12, 2023
From a viral video turned award-winning web series turned stage production, an all-Filipino cast brings this exciting new musical to the Citadel Theatre.
Review: THE DEVILS Haunts the University of Alberta's Timms Centre For The Arts
by Sarah Dussome - April 09, 2023
Based on the true events of a 1634 witch trial, this chilling production is fraught with tension from beginning to end.
Review: TROUBLE IN MIND Shines at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre
by Sarah Dussome - April 02, 2023
Alice Childress’s 1955 drama portrays racial tension in the New York theatre scene.
Review: Edmonton Opera Re-Imagines STABAT MATER in an Avant-Garde New Production
by Sarah Dussome - April 02, 2023
Adapted from a 13th-century hymn, Stabat Mater is Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s 1736 operatic testament to the lamentation of Mary following Jesus’s crucifixion.
THE UKRAINIAN FILM FESTIVAL Announced In Edmonton, March 31 - April 2
by BWW News Desk - March 29, 2023
For the first time in Alberta's capital city, the Ukrainian Film Festival in Edmonton (UFFE) will present a selection of contemporary Ukrainian films been acclaimed by world critics and have won various international awards.
Kappella Kyrie Slavic Chamber Choir Presents PRAISE
by BWW News Desk - March 28, 2023
Kappella Kyrie Slavic Chamber Choir presents PRAISE with special guests Shumayela, an Edmonton-based choir for treble and changing voices, part of the Kokopelli Choir family. The concert will be held on May 13 at 7:30 PM, at the First Presbyterian Church (10025 105 Street).
Review: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Sweeps Edmonton Off its Feet at The Citadel Theatre
by Sarah Dussome - March 20, 2023
Gender-bent casting and laugh-out-loud dialogue are among this stylish production’s most memorable features.
Edmonton Opera's STABET MATER Sells Out In First Week Of Rehearsals
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2023
Edmonton Opera’s three performances, March 30, 31 and April 1, 2023, of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at the Jubilee Auditorium sold out during the first week of rehearsals.
Review: GISELLE Haunts Edmonton at The Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
by Sarah Dussome - March 11, 2023
The most famous ballet of the romantic era whisks audiences away on an eerily beautiful journey to medieval rural Germany.
Shadow Theatre Presents ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS I HAVE EATEN This Month
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2023
Shadow Theatre brings Karen Hines' latest play All The Little Animals I Have Eaten to Edmonton audiences live from the Varscona Theatre.
TROUBLE IN MIND Opens This Month at The Citadel Theatre
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2023
A play within a play that gives a glimpse into the world of theatre for a Black actress in the late 1950s.
Review: ANASTASIA Dazzles Edmonton
by Sarah Dussome - February 24, 2023
Stunning vocals, sumptuous costumes, and jaw-dropping special effects are among the production’s many high notes.
L'UniThéâtre Announces New Administration Director
by BWW News Desk - February 23, 2023
The board of directors of L'UniThéâtre has announced the hiring of Mireille Moquin as Administrative Director starting March 1, 2023.

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