Current Season
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Fool For Love
By Sam Shepard
Directed by Sarain Frank Soonias (Member Presented)📅 Show Dates: Mar. 20–22, 26–28, 2026
A passionate, powerful, and provocative drama about love, trauma, and entanglement. from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
Tickets on sale now!
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CATnips
April 16 & 17, 2026
FREE (Limited seats, tickets required)
Big things have small beginnings. Central Alberta Theatre is pleased to announce its annual CATNIPS ONE-ACT Festival, featuring an array of Red Deer talent. Our hour long festival offers three bite sized plays which offer comedy, romance, and a little bit of edge. You’ll be surprised, intrigued, and begging for more. ADMISSION IS FREE, but seating is limited so we ask you to please book your tickets through showpass. Donations will be accepted at the door. There will be a cash bar available. The festival contains mature subject matter with warnings for adult language and situations. This is not suitable for young audiences.
Show will take place inside the Studio Theatre on the 3rd floor of the Red Deer Memorial Centre (4214 58th Street) The show begins at 7:30pm and doors open at 7:00pm. It runs approximately for one hour with no intermission.
2025-2026 Season
Lights, laughter, and a little bit of holiday magic — CAT’s new season is here! We’ve got monsters, misers, book clubs, and burning passion lined up onstage for 2025–2026. Whether you’re backstage, front-of-house, or front-row center, we want YOU along for the ride.
Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime. All shows take place in the Studio Theatre (black box theatre) upstairs at CAT.
CATnips: A One-Act Festival
📅 Show Dates: April 17–18, 2026
An audience favourite returns this April! A showcase of original and one-act plays featuring new and returning artists.
Submissions open Sept. 20 (at CATena) and close Jan. 31. 2026.
CATNIPS is a stand-alone event and not part of the 2025/2026 CAST Season Package.
More details coming.
Past Shows
CAT live theatre showcases stories of comedy, mystery, thrills and romance!
Our productions also highlight innovative and unorthodox theatre. Directors can venture into fresh territory and try something new with scripts that are dramatic, experimental or challenging.
As a “black box,” Studio Theatre is ideally suited to many styles of theatre, giving directors and designers a highly adaptable place to create their vision.