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 Edmonton-Area
Theatre Facilities and Groups
- Arden
Theatre
5 St. Anne St.
St. Albert, AB, T8N 3Z9
459-1542 (Box Office)
459-1540 (Administration)
459-1726 (Fax)
- Azimuth Theatre Association
206 - 8631 - 109 St.
Edmonton, AB, T6G 1E8
448-9165
439-5146
The Azimuth Theatre Association is a non-profit
organization committed to developing research-based
performance art which examines critical issues and
empowers individuals, institutions and communities to
initiate positive change. The company has toured to
numerous schools, communities, correctional institutions,
aboriginal reserves, award ceremonies, conferences and
theatre festivals in western Canada since its inception
in 1991. It is supported by the sale of memberships,
donations, and funding from the Alberta Foundation for
the Arts.
- Celebrations (Dinner Theatre)
13103 Fort Rd. (at the Neighbourhood Inn)
Edmonton, AB, T5A 1C3
448-9339
448-9325 (Corporate)
478-5640 (Fax)
Celebrations presents dinner theatre in which guests
are surrounded by the show. "The character that
greets you at the door and takes your drink order may
offer to deputize you to assist with finding the culprit
responsible for robbing the bank, the saloon, and the
stage coach," says the theatre's publicity material.
Original Canadian musical comedies are divided into three
acts. Before each main stage act, food and beverage
service takes place. Production is light and humorous and
aimed at the entire family. Each show includes a segment
in which audience members have such occasions as
birthdays, anniversaries, etc. acknowledged by the cast
in a memorable way.
- Citadel
Theatre
9828 - 101A Ave.
Edmonton, AB, T5J 3C6
426-4811 (Administration)
425-1820 (Box Office)
424-3136 (Charge by Phone)
428-7194 (Fax)
On November 10, 1965, the Citadel opened its doors in
a downtown building that used to be a Salvation Army
Citadel. Today, the Citadel is the largest theatre in
Canada. The work from this facility has travelled through
North America, and has appeared on Broadway and London’s
West End. The Citadel includes the Shocter Theatre,
Maclab Theatre, Rice Theatre, Zeidler Hall, Tucker
Amphitheatre, multipurpose rooms and classrooms. It
occupies thousands of square feet in the heart of
downtown Edmonton, and provides space for events such as
social clubs, receptions, anniversaries, dinner/theatre
parties, film screenings, classes, seminars, meetings,
workshops or convention activities. The Citadel Theatre
School offers classes for youth, teens and adults.
- Edmonton
Opera
9720 - 102 Ave.
Edmonton, AB, T5J 4B2
429-1000 (Box Office)
424-4040 (Administration)
429-0600 (Fax)
- ELOPE
(Ensemble for Lyrical Operetta Productions
Edmonton)
Box 75092, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E 6K1
Phone: (780) 988-4375
E-mail: ELOPE_Edmonton@hotmail.com
ELOPE (Ensemble for Lyrical Operetta Productions Edmonton)
is a not-for-profit community theatre organization
devoted to putting on high quality musical theatre
productions annually (usually in and around April).
Through ELOPE's activities, we strive to stimulate the
creative talents of our community while maintaining a
stable financial footing.
ELOPE has a great history of heart-warming, fun-filled
Productions, suitable for the whole family. Some of our
past productions have included: "Annie Get Your Gun",
"Brigadoon", "South Pacific", "Fiddler
on the Roof", and "Guys & Dolls".
- Festival Place
100 Festival Way
Sherwood Park, AB, T8A 5T2
449-3378 (Box Office)
464-2852 (Administration)
449-0743 (Fax)
- Free Will Players
907 - 10136 - 100 St.
Edmonton, AB, T5J 0P1
425-8086
Free Will Players is a company of professional actors
who perform an annual Shakespeare-In-the-Park event
during the summer at Hawrelak Park's amphitheatre. They
aim to present exciting, accessible, true-to-text
versions of Shakespearian plays. A single play is
performed over a couple weeks each summer. Its actors are
engaged in other professional acting work throughout the
rest of the year.
- Fringe Theatre Adventures
10330 - 84 Ave.
Edmonton, AB, T6E 2G9
448-9000
431-1893 (Fax)
Fringe Theatre Adventures organizes the annual Fringe
Theatre Festival held in Edmonton every August. It also
provides touring theatre shows for young audiences, and
manages a theatre facility in the Bus Barns in Old
Strathcona.
- Myer
Horowitz Theatre
Students' Union Building (entrance from main
floor, east entrance of SUB)
(115 St. & 89 St.)
Administration: Room 2-908 Students' Union
Building,
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J7
492-4764
492-4643 (Fax)
The Myer Horowitz theatre auditorium in the University
of Alberta's Students' Union Building holds up to 720
people, and is host to a wide variety of events including
numerous music performances. It has main floor seating of
546 and balcony seating of 174. The theatre can be rented
by University of Alberta and non-university performers.
- Inner City Drama Association
9515 - 104 Ave.
Edmonton, AB, T5H 4H3
424-9425
426-3386 (Fax)
Inner City Drama Association is an organization
providing educational performances for street youth.
- John
L Haar Theatre
10045 - 156 St.
Edmonton, AB, T5P 2P7
497-4470 (Box Office)
497-4340 (Grant MacEwan Community College)
The John L. Haar Theatre is run by the Performing,
Visual and Communication Arts programs of Grant MacEwan
Community College. The proscenium arched threatre has an
eight-foot apron in front of the main curtain. There is
seating for up to 18 wheelchair patrons.
Jubilations presents dinner theatre in which guests
are surrounded by the show. "The character that
greets you at the door and takes your drink order may
offer to deputize you to assist with finding the culprit
responsible for robbing the bank, the saloon, and the
stage coach," says the theatre's publicity material.
Original Canadian musical comedies are divided into three
acts. Before each main stage act, food and beverage
service takes place. Production is light and humorous and
aimed at the entire family. Each show includes a segment
in which audience members have such occasions as
birthdays, anniversaries, etc. acknowledged by the cast
in a memorable way.
For more than a quarter century, the Jubilee
Auditorium has brought the world’s best performing
arts before enthusiastic audiences. From folk art troupes
to operatic productions, the auditorium’s world-class
facilities have met the exacting standards required by
international performers. Its mandate is to serve the
community by providing exemplary service to the arts and
entertainment industry, and to patrons who enjoy its
performances. The Jubilee seats about 2,678 people. The
box office usually opens one hour prior to performances,
and pricing and availability of tickets varies with each
performance. The Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in
Edmonton, and the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in
Calgary were built in the mid-1950s as a tribute to
Alberta's pioneers in commemoration of the province’s
50th anniversary in 1955.
- Kaasa Theatre
11455 - 87 Ave.
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2T2
432-0925
- Kompany Dance & Affiliated Artists Society
11415 - 120 St.
Edmonton, AB, T5G 2Y3
944-9115
- L'UniTheatre
210 - 8527 - 91 St.
Edmonton, AB, T6C 3N1
469-8400
469-8765
440-6970 (Fax)
This Francophone theatre group performs for schools,
and also produces monthly in-house performances in French.
Its local actors include a mixture of professionals and
amateurs.
- La Cité francophone
8722 - 91 St. (Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury)
Edmonton, AB, T6C 4L2
463-1144
466-5408 (Fax)
E-mail: lacite@datanet.ab.ca
The Centre Communautaire d’Edmonton is a not-for-profit
charitable company wholly owned by its sole shareholder,
l’Association Canadienne-française de l’Alberta
– régionale d’Edmonton. It aims to provide a
blend of community/cultural components and community
service space for Francophones and Francophiles from
Edmonton and beyond. La Cité francophone will provide a
space for these activities. It is a centre whose main
objective is to supply services to the community in
French, while being financially self-sustaining. The $7.6
million project is being constructed on Rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury
(91 St.) in the heart of Edmonton’s French Quarter.
It is to include a theatre seating 200, exhibition space,
and performance space for dance and music, as well as
community services such as a post office, office space, a
bookstore, etc.
- Leave It To Jane Theatre
10045 - 156 St.
Edmonton, AB, T5P 2P7
497-4395
497-4369 (Fax)
Leave It to Jane Theatre is an actor-based
professional theatre group working mainly with Edmonton-based
talent – actors, designers, technicians,
choreographers and musicians. Now in its 13th season, the
group's beginnings were small, and from that came scaled-down
sets and technical requirements with the onus on the
individual actor to communicate with the audience –
informal and intimate. The company normally produces four
mainstage productions each year, though this year there
are three, as well as a summer project – all
employing about 50 to 60 actors, technicians, designers
and production personnel. Leave It to Jane Theatre works
closely with Grant MacEwan Community College by
supporting technical programs to produce a number of
productions during the summer months.
- Mayfield
Dinner Theatre
16615 - 109 Ave.
Edmonton, AB, T5P 4K8
483-4051 (Dinner Theatre Reservations)
486-7827 (Info Line)
484-0821 (Hotel)
487-6018 (Fax - ticket office)
Cyclic creations through a reactive mix of movement,
drama, music and images.
Northern Light Theatre defines its mandate as
challenging both the artist and the audience by producing
and developing provocative scripts -- language-rich texts
that are dark, poetic, and funny -- which reflect a
complex world, and lead us to question our hierarchy of
values.
- Rapid Fire Theatre Society
10329 - 83 Ave.
Edmonton, AB, T6E 2C6
448-0695
439-7053 (Fax)
Theatre sports performed Fridays at New Varscona Theatre.
- Shadow Theatre
10329 - 83 Ave.
Edmonton, AB, T6E 2C6
433-3399
439-7053 (Fax)
One of the theatre companies performing from the New Varscona Theatre.
- Studio
Theatre
87 Ave. & 112 St.
c/o Department of Drama,
University of Alberta,
3-146 Fine Arts Building,
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2C9
492-2495 (Box Office)
492-9156 (Fax)
E-mail: studio@ualberta.ca
Studio Theatre is the University of Alberta Department
of Drama theatre group which now operates from the Timms
Centre for the Arts. The group offers professional-quality
productions at the lowest price for mainstage theatre in
Edmonton. The 1996-97 season is Studio Theatre's 48th,
and includes three plays performed by the graduating BFA
(Acting) students and two plays directed by graduating
MFA (Directing) students.
- Timms
Centre For The Arts
87 Ave. & 112 St.
c/o Department of Drama,
University of Alberta,
3-146 Fine Arts Building,
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2C9
492-2273
492-9156 (Fax)
The Timms Centre for the Arts is the University of
Alberta's newest performance and training facility. The
Timms Centre is the home of Studio Theatre, and includes
a 321-seat theatre, a rehersal hall, a second playing
space, a meeting seminar room, and heated underground
parking.
- Walterdale Playhouse
10322 - 83 Ave.
Edmonton, AB, T6E 5C3
439-2845 (Box Office & Volunteer Info)
439-3058 (Work Shop & Back Stage)
- Workshop West Playwright's Theatre
11516 - 103 St.
Edmonton, AB, T5G 2H9
477-5955
471-6264 (Fax)
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