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Last year the province of Alberta surprised countless thousands of artists and cultural organizations alike when it announced a sweeping 16 per cent cut to its otherwise meagre budget. St.

At one point in the engaging Trudeau Stories, staged at the Arden Theatre on Wednesday, actor Brooke Johnson cries out “Whee-e-e” in childlike delight.

St. Albert Ballet Academy performs the city’s only annual full-length ballet at the Arden Theatre this coming weekend.

A St. Albert resident received a double tribute at the 2011 Northern Lights Classic, the only nationally recognized ballroom and Latin dance competition in Alberta.

When a production shifts from laidback rehearsals to the frenetic energy of opening, backstage antics become almost as much fun as the show on stage.

To look at one of Russ Allen’s wooden bowls is confusing because you’re certain that they aren’t even possible.

It’s one of St. Albert’s biggest evenings as far as art goes and this year it’s going to be held in one of the biggest and newest venues in the city. The Art Gallery of St.

Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole is billed as a story about a couple whose relationship undergoes monumental changes after their preschool son is killed in an accident.

Does the name ring a bell? Love him or hate him for what he accomplished as prime minister, nobody can dispute he had a larger than life persona and a long-running effect on the Canadian psyche.

Daniel MacIvor’s play Communion now running at Theatre Network opens with an ambiguous question that is never really answered. Quite possibly because everyone sitting in the audience has a different frame of reference.