PAW Patrol heroes ready to raise the woof at Edmonton Expo Centre
The big dogs are back as PAW Patrol Live! returns this weekend with four shows Saturday and Sunday, in a whole new story called Heroes Unite.
“If you're not familiar with the TV show, no big deal,” says Boston-born performer Berit Palma, who's been with the company for a year and a half, noting, “You can still enjoy the production as much as if you're a PAW Patrol super fan.”
The effects-laden live stage show, which includes giant dog puppets, humans in costume and a lot of interactive singing, is the third VStar Entertainment Group and Nickelodeon touring collaboration under the preschool-popular PAW Patrol banner, entertaining 4.5 million people live since 2026.
“The story follows Ryder and the pups as they're facing one of their biggest challenges: Mayor Humdinger clones Robo Dog,” explains Palma.
The gang has to catch all the clones, save the day and figure out what it means to be a hero, with lots of help from the audience at Edmonton Expo Centre (7515 118 Ave.).
“I think that that's one of the best parts about the show,” says Palma, “is that it really gets kids involved in what it means to be a team, how to work together and how, through working together, you can really accomplish anything you set your mind to.”
For the record, kids watch everything from the audience.
“No kids will actually come up on stage with us,” Palma says with a laugh, “because those dogs are actually pretty big — I think they'd be very frightened if they got very close. But there's a lot of opportunities to sing and dance along with your favourite pups.
“And they're also given a pup tag at the very start of the show, so throughout the production, they'll have opportunities to be members of the Paw Patrol themselves.”
The shows run 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday — Mother's Day!
“There's a number at the very end,” Palma adds, “where we encourage all the heroes to get up and show us their dance moves. And they just go crazy, running down the aisles.
“There's opportunities for the parents to dance as well — so it's a really great way to connect with you and your young one.”
Standard admission tickets start at $41.50, which includes fees and taxes — grab yours at pawpatrollive.com/canada-tickets. Photo VIP packages also available.
ART
5/10: Art on the Block (AGA) 5/10-12: OddBird Art & Craft
Fair (OSPAC)
Thru 5/31: Larysa Matchak, Mariia Parshykova & Svitlana Melobenska (Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts)
Thru 5/11: Greg Swain: El Hombre Esqueleto (Collins)
Thru 5/12: Within Duration group show (Rutherford Library) Thru 5/15: Jessica Desmoulin (Bearclaw)
Thru 5/18: Coming Up Next (Alberta Craft Gallery)
Thru 5/19: Pam Wilman, Marla Schole: Two Views ( Walterdale) Thru 5/25: High Energy 29 high school group show (Art Gallery St. Albert)
Thru 5/26: Braxton Garneau: Pay Dirt (AGA)
Thru 5/29: Larry Reese and
Anne Wheeler: Art Inspiring Art (Trinity)
Thru 6/2: Creating Beauty — A Watercolour Exhibition (AGA) Thru 6/8: Caitlin Thompson: PANORAMADA (Harcourt)
Thru 6/8: Krissya Iraheta: All Guts No Glory (Harcourt)
Thru 6/15: Minutiae (Alberta Craft Gallery)
Thru 6/22: Echoes of Thunder: Unveiling the Mythical Chinese Dragon (U of A Museums)
Thru 6/29: The Wild Side: Polar Prairie Pacific (Musée Héritage Museum)
Thru 7/13: Jessie Ray Short: By Whose Order and Direction (Ociciwan)
Thru 8/4: Dwayne Martineau: Boreal Fortress (AGA)
Thru 9/29: Here & Now (RAM) Thru 12/31: Damian Moppett: Untitled Abstract Object in Space (AGA)
BOOKS
5/9: Freehand Books Spring 2024 launch (Audreys)
5/15: Susan Vukadinovic's The Actually Pretty Good Baby signing (Audreys)
COMEDY
5/9: Jimmy Dore (Comic Strip) 5/10-11: Art Bellerose, Dan Schmidt (Comedy Factory) 5/10-11: Kyle Lucey (Yuk Yuk's) 5/10-11: Paul Mecurio (Comic Strip)
EXHIBITS
5/11: 40th Annual Ben Calf Robe Traditional Pow Wow (Clarke Stadium)
Thru 7/28: Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia (RAM)
Thru 9/9: Dinosaurs: The Exhibition (TWOSE)
FESTIVALS
5/9-15: NorthwestFest (Metro) 5/14-19: From Cradle to Stage ( Walterdale)
FILM
5/9: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (AGA)
5/9-10: Cutie and the Boxer (AGA)
5/9-15: NorthwestFest (Metro)
Thru 5/21: Superhuman Body Imax (TWoSE)
MUSIC
5/9: Kim Churchill, Felipe Baldomir (Aviary)
5/9: Amy Nelson, The Silver Wedding Band (9910)
5/10: The Blue Mules (Commerical)
5/10: Sahil Chugh, Pike (Aviary) 5/10: Co-Kaynes, Paint Drying, Gourd (Blakbar)
5/10: Foreigner, Headpins (Rogers)
5/10: Scenic Route to Alaska, Kaeley Jade, Dylan Ella (Starlite) 5/10: Elizabeth Shepherd and Michale Occhipinti (Yardbird)
5/11: Mario Bakuna & Band: Brazilian Landscapes (Yardbird) 5/11: Condemned w/ DJ Abel Nightroad, The Revenant (Dive Bar)
5/11: Excuses Excuses, Alcoves (Soho)
5/11: Ross Fizzard (Black Dog) 5/11: Korora Choirs: Outside the Vox (McDougall)
5/11: Everett LaRoi Trio (Cask and Barrel)
5/11: Prateek Kuhad (Midway) 5/11: The McGowan Family
Band, The Yonghy-Bonghy Bos (Temple)
5/11: M is for Music (Winspear) 5/11: The Static Shift (Commercial)
5/11: Surf Hat (Squamish), Gratuitous (Aviary)
5/12: Celedonio Garrido: Flamenco at the Yardbird (Yardbird) 5/12: Mike Clark: Mother's Day Matinee (Yardbird)
5/12: Richard Eaton Singers: Mozart Mass in C Minor (Winspear) 5/12: Grizzly Trail, A New Rhetoric, Crybaby Cannon, Chungus (Aviary)
5/12: Paul Steffes (Commercial) 5/12: Wheatus, Medical Pilot, Misfortune Tellers, Preach Electric (Buckingham)
5/13: Decapitated, Septicflesh, Kataklysm, Allegaeon (Starlite) 5/14: Dying Fetus, Full of Hell, 200 Stab Wounds, Kruelty (Starlite)
5/14: Laube Plays Liszt (Winspear)
5/14: Tuesday Jam hosted by Andrea House with Chris Andrew Trio (Yardbird)
5/15: Luca Fogale (Aviary)
5/15: The Mission UK (Midway)
THEATRE/ DANCE
5/9-12: Hits of Broadway: Celebrating Motherhood (Citadel) 5/10: Top Talent Wrestling: Mustafa Ali (Midway)
5/10-11: Alberta Ballet's Der Wolf & The Rite of Spring (Jubilee) 5/10-11: Wheel of Fortune Live! (River Cree)
5/10-25: Off Book: The Improvised Musical (Rapid Fire Exchange)
5/11: Stars on Ice (Rogers) 5/11-12: PAW Patrol Live! Heroes Unite (EEC)
Thru 5/12: The Three Musketeers (Citadel)
Thru 5/12: Tiny Beautiful Things ( Varscona)
5/13-16: Mean Girls (Festival Place)
5/14-18: The Debut (Backstage) 5/15: Russell Comrie magic show (Audreys)
Thru 5/25: The 11 O'clock Number: Season 12 (Grindstone)
Thru 6/16: Grease (Mayfield)