Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

It is owned outright by 30,000 students - a concert hall run and financed by the University of Alberta Students' Union since the day it opened. The Myer Horowitz Theatre, inside the Students' Union Building at 8900 114 Street in Edmonton, opened in 1967 as the SUB Theatre. The design was innovative for its day: theatre designer James Hull Miller shaped the original 720-seat hall, which welcomed over a million patrons in its first decades as both a rental house and a presenter - roughly 250 events and 100,000 attendees a year, split between campus and community. The renaming honoured a president: in April 1989 the Students' Union rechristened the room for Dr. Myer Horowitz, the university's outgoing ninth president, whose decade in office had cemented the theatre's place in Edmonton's mid-size venue ladder. The 2021-2024 renovation rebuilt it from the walls in: funded by a student-approved Sustainability and Capital Fund fee, the project added a Meyer sound system, all-LED lighting, black slatted acoustic walls, new seating and loge boxes, an expanded lobby with permanent bar, elevator access, all-gender washrooms and over 200 kilowatts of solar panels - cutting the building's energy use by 43 percent before reopening on 8 April 2024. The capacity now runs 681 for the full theatre or 482 on the main floor alone, and the booking mix holds its historic shape: touring musicians and comedians who want a mid-size Edmonton room, student productions, dance, lectures and film - one of the few near-700-seat spaces in the city. Practical notes: the theatre sits on the University LRT line with campus parkades adjacent; the fully renovated loge seats are the room's best, student-priced tickets appear on many community shows, and the surrounding Students' Union Building keeps food and coffee within a one-minute walk of the lobby.