![]() ![]() ![]() and, recently, the improv theatre company, Rapid Fire. In 1976 the Citadel Theatre relocated to a stunning new venue (designed by Diamond Myers Wilkin Associated Architects with consultation from Phillip Silver and Andis Celms) housing three theatre spaces: the Shoctor, a 685-seat theatre with a proscenium stage the Rice, a 250-seat flexible studio space (now a cabaret space) and the Zeidler, with 240 seats, used for films, lectures, young people’s theatre. The first Artistic Director was John Hulbert, from the Drama Department at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, and the first production was Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, directed by and starring Bernard Engel of the University of Alberta’s Drama Department. It was initially located in the Old Salvation Army Citadel hence its name. ![]() Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta, founded in 1965 by Joseph Shoctor, David Bentley, and Sandy Mactaggart. Photo by Ed Ellis, Ellis Brothers Photography ![]()
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