I Heart Edmonton

Edmonton's Jube sold more tickets last year than any other theatre in the country, eclipsing Calgary and Toronto BY EMIL TIEDEMANN I T seems that every other week Edmontonians have something else to brag about, from recently being named North America's " Most Sociable City " to being frontrunner for the EXPO 2017 bid , and from accommodating the headquarters of Canada's "#1 company to work for" ( PCL ) to the opening of the world-class Art Gallery of Alberta . Hell, even the Oilers have finally started to win some games! And now, the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium has just been bestowed as Canada's busiest theatre, with 146,555 tickets sold in 2009 alone, according to concert industry publication Pollstar . Those numbers place the 2,515-seat venue ahead of Calgary's 2,515-seat Jubilee theatre (138,515 tickets) and even Toronto's 2,752-seat Massey Hall (93,742). But those figures are only based on touring shows (such as musicals and ...

Hilarious tale of pirates & young love returns to Edmonton for three runs What: Edmonton Opera presentation of 'The Pirates of Penzance' When: Sat. Feb. 6th/ Tues. Feb. 9th/ Thur. Feb. 11th (7:30PM each night) Where: Jubilee Auditorium (11455-87th Ave./ 780-427-2760) B Y popular demand, the Edmonton Opera presents the return of Gilbert & Sullivan 's classic comic opera The Pirates of Penzance , which will be performed at the Jubilee Auditorium for three nights next month (February 6th, 9th and 11th). The conductor-director team of Peter Dala and Robert Herriot brings the famed show back to the Edmonton stage once again, following their recent productions of Daughter of the Regiment and the award-winning HMS Pinafore . Pirates dates back more than 130 years, when it officially premiered in New York City on New Year's Eve 1879, and it's since become a Broadway staple that has captured numerous major awards. The story centers around a young man named F...

U2, Bon Jovi & John Mayer are amongst the major acts coming to town in the new year BY EMIL TIEDEMANN O VER the last few years Edmonton has become a preferred destination for some of the world's most celebrated music acts to come to perform. Why?! Well, Alberta's economy was numero uno in the nation during those years, and amongst the most stable on the continent, which meant that plenty of Edmontonians had plenty of expendable funds. As it turns out, many of the major concerts in E-town would either sell out or come damn near close. It also didn't hurt that the music industry was on the opposite end of a boom, suffering deeper with every passing year, as record labels watched album sales drop substantially, and illegal downloading take over as the favoured way to gather music. That meant that musicians were forced to hit the road more and more, in order to make up for lost revenue from those dramatically-weakened record sales. During these past few years Edmonton has ...