The Citadel Theatre
Factoid
After every performance of A Christmas Carol, the Citadel asks the audience for donations to Edmonton’s Food Bank. This has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the food bank over the years.
From Artistic Director Bob Baker
One of the unique things about this city and about theatre here is that it’s been around a long time. The Citadel Theatre itself has been around for nearly 45 years. The Department of Drama at the University of Alberta has been around for more than 50 years.
Edmonton’s a winter city, it’s an indoor city, and that’s where it’s a bonus for us. The audiences are very supportive. Not just us, not just the Citadel, and not just theatre, but all of the arts. I love what I do and I love being able to do it at the Citadel in Edmonton.
From Executive Director Penny Ritco
It’s a big shock for people coming from elsewhere to come to the Citadel and see a producing company and a facility of this size in a city of a million people.
What Bob has done is really make the plays accessible to people so that the arts aren’t some kind of elite thing that happens.
Edmonton is a booming arts city. So for a person who’s wanting to have a career in the arts, you’re not doing too badly if you’re starting out in Edmonton.
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Bob Baker & Penny Ritco
The Citadel Theatre opened on November 10, 1965, with a production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The theatre has been housed in its current building off Churchill Square since 1978. The building is also home to the Maclab, Shoctor and Rice Theatres, Zeidler Hall, the Tucker Amphitheatre and the Foote Theatre School.
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