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Shadow Theatre’s Yaga turns Slavic folklore into a wickedly funny mystery
Generations of storytellers have described Baba Yaga as a hideous, child-eating witch who flies through forests in a mortar and lives in a hut on chicken legs.
Frank Moher brings Boy Player home to Edmonton, where his theatre story began
During rehearsals for Boy Player, director Jonathan Greenway began throwing crumpled paper at Frank Moher while the playwright-performer worked through a scene in which he watches himself in crisis.
Review: Death steals the show in Alberta Ballet's surreal Peer Gynt
Death takes the long way around the stage in Alberta Ballet's Peer Gynt. He has plenty of time to spare, and given the life of the man he's following, he might need it.
Ancestral Beasts Review: What We Acknowledge and What We Leave Behind
A story shared online describes a teacher who takes a student's water bottle to the front of a classroom.
SCTV at 50: How a Canadian Comedy Series Went from Toronto to Edmonton to American Television
When Second City Television premiered on Global on September 21, 1976, its comedians were playing the people who owned, operated and appeared on an imaginary television station.
Shadow Theatre brings Kat Sandler’s Yaga to Edmonton ahead of Crave adaptation
Shadow Theatre is opening its 2026–27 season with Kat Sandler’s Yaga, a mystery-comedy that begins at Edmonton’s Varscona Theatre on October 14.
LitFest opens Oct. 14 with Trina Moyles discussing Black Bear in Edmonton
LitFest will open its 2026 festival in Edmonton on Wednesday, October 14, with Alberta-raised author Trina Moyles in conversation with writer Conor Kerr about her memoir Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival.
Rubaboo Indigenous Arts Festival enters final four days with theatre, art and fashion in Edmonton
Rubaboo Indigenous Arts Festival has four days left in Edmonton, with the final stretch moving from a visual-art exhibition at CO*LAB to cabaret, theatre and a closing fashion show at CKUA’s Beresh Arts Den.
I Don’t Even Miss You brings Elena Belyea’s national tour back to Edmonton
Elena Belyea’s I Don’t Even Miss You is back in Edmonton four years after it appeared in RISER Edmonton, returning as the fourth stop on a national tour that has since taken the work to Ottawa, Toronto and Calgary.
EIFF at 40: What’s still ahead before the festival closes Oct. 3
The 40th Edmonton International Film Festival heads into its final three days with several Canadian features still on the schedule, filmmaker Q&As, one of this year’s newly announced jury-award winners and a closing-night gala tied directly to Edmonton’s screen industry.
Alberta’s book awards spotlight queer history, Indigenous scholarship and independent publishing
Alberta’s book publishing community gathered in Edmonton on Sept. 17 for the 2026 Alberta Book Publishing Awards, with this year’s winners spanning literary fiction, poetry, children’s books, graphic novels, scholarship, regional history and book design.
From Mosquers award winner to feature director: Ilhan Abdullahi brings Lifeline to Edmonton
Two years after taking home audience and performance honours at Edmonton’s Mosquers Film Festival, Somali-Canadian filmmaker Ilhan Abdullahi returned to the festival with her feature directorial debut.
Darrin Hagen brings Edmonton queer theatre history to the page in The Crown Collection
Thirty years after The Edmonton Queen first reached the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Darrin Hagen’s writing debut is returning in another form.
MacKenzie Porter brings Thelma & James home to Alberta for Boots and Hearts West
Alberta-raised country singer-songwriter MacKenzie Porter is heading home later this month, bringing Thelma & James to Edmonton for what festival organizers are calling the duo’s first Alberta homecoming performance.