ADA Artists nominated for Sterling Theater Awards

Outstanding performance by an actor in a leading role, Curt Olds in Mikado
Outstanding Musical Director – Robert Tweten for Fidelio

Both with Edmonton Opera

The Sterling Awards were created in 1987 to celebrate outstanding professional theatre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are named in honour of Elizabeth Sterling Haynes, director, actress, educator and architect of innumerable theatre programs and schools throughout the province. As renowned western playwright Gwen Pharis Ringwood wrote, Elizabeth was a force, a creative energy unleashed at a time when creativity was suspect and at a place where creativity was often ignored in the hope that it would go away….Her theatre exists in the people whose lives she touched.Full Article

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