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Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts (ACUA) annual and popular Ukrainian Vintage Fair returns to their Gallery & Artisan Boutique on Saturday June 24th from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

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.

Experience the rhythms of everyday life in an imaginative new way!

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.   

This upbeat new musical features an effervescent all-Filipino cast.

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.

This slow-burn historical fantasy features all-female cast.

Edmontonian Matt MacKenzie and Odesa-born Mariya Khomutova paint a hope-filled portrait of their lives amid unprecedented circumstances.

 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.

Neil Simon’s witty 1965 comedy follows the ups and downs of a turbulent friendship.

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.

The touring Broadway adaptation of Gary Marshall’s beloved film features strong performances and a rock music-infused score.

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.

Based on the true events of a 1634 witch trial, this chilling production is fraught with tension from beginning to end.

Alice Childress’s 1955 drama portrays racial tension in the New York theatre scene.

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.

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 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).

Gender-bent casting and laugh-out-loud dialogue are among this stylish production’s most memorable features.

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.

The most famous ballet of the romantic era whisks audiences away on an eerily beautiful journey to medieval rural Germany.

Shadow Theatre brings Karen Hines' latest play All The Little Animals I Have Eaten to Edmonton audiences live from the Varscona Theatre.

A play within a play that gives a glimpse into the world of theatre for a Black actress in the late 1950s.

Stunning vocals, sumptuous costumes, and jaw-dropping special effects are among the production’s many high notes.