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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.
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.
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.
A story shared online describes a teacher who takes a student's water bottle to the front of a classroom.
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.
Seven Alberta-made horror shorts screened under the title Alberta Kills at NorthwestFEARFest on October 18, with a program that moved from a two-minute comedy to a teenage revenge ritual and the nightmares of a young man caught in sleep paralysis.
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.
The Edmonton Chinese Writing Club’s anthology We Are Water and Light: Anti-Racism Stories Rooted in Chinese Wisdom and Other Asian Traditions will be featured at LitFest Alberta on Friday, October 16.
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.
Edmonton poet Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon 姚君妍 has released her debut collection, Duckweed 浮萍, through NeWest Press, with a series of Canadian readings and launches scheduled through November.
Edmonton poet Nisha Patel has built her third poetry collection around a number that changed as she worked: the recorded deaths from COVID-19 in Alberta.
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.
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.
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.
Four women populate Avonlea in OH, ANNE!, Bridget Ryan's musical adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.
Music Day in Canada returns Saturday, Sept. 26, with more than 60 Canadian artists appearing at more than 20 events in 20 cities, but three years into the project, the national event is becoming increasingly local.
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.
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.
Brian Webb is stepping back as artistic director of the Edmonton dance company he founded in 1979, with Molly McDermott taking over the role as the Brian Webb Dance Company enters its 48th season.
The Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival heads into its final weekend with more than 200 productions on its 2026 program, including Canadian shows built around spoken-word poetry, artificial intelligence and a long-running theatrical version of God in a floral suit.
Edmonton-born actor Nathan Fillion is back in the DC Universe, reprising his role as Green Lantern Guy Gardner in the new HBO series Lanterns.
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.
Thirty years after The Edmonton Queen first reached the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Darrin Hagen’s writing debut is returning in another form.