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Edmonton's flagship regional theatre. Season launches, opening nights, and casting are dependable arts-section items, and the 'modified' timestamps make change detection easy.
READS RECORDED 2026-10-12 (DECISIONS #42). The fetch ledger's first night (2026-10-11 evening edition) listed eleven /productions/<slug>/ pages under no record: events.citadel() reads each production's own page for its run dates (the REST API publishes none), at the 10-second crawl delay robots.txt sets. Those pages are part of what this record reads. WIRED 2026-08-26 as the citadel() harvester in pipeline/sources/events.py (registry.claim'd), after the ground-truth sweep's first run found the flagship theatre absent from What's On entirely. One row per production at the opening date (clamped to today while a run is underway), closing date in `ends`, time_unknown — the API publishes no performance schedule and nightly rows would claim shows on dark days. The TheaterEvent JSON-LD endDate on production pages is the post's MODIFIED timestamp — present and false; the visible range text carries the real closing. | WIRING TRIAGE 2026-08-23 — DEAD OR STALE: archive, static, years behind, or carries no dates; nothing to poll. Kept as the record of what was checked. Use 'productions', NOT 'shows' — I tested /wp-json/wp/v2/shows?per_page=2 and it returns an EMPTY ARRAY []. Other available CPTs: auditions, employment, classes, venues. Site-wide RSS at citadeltheatre.com (200, application/rss+xml) also works for news posts.
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