This week, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival launched its 2019 Festival Program, at a party at John Fluevog Shoes in Gastown. The 2019 Push Festival, January 17 to February 3 will mark the milestone 15th annual festival, bringing international performing arts to venues around Vancouver. Featuring 26 works from 24 companies from 13 countries — including six…
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Picks of the Week – November 14, 2018
Midway through November, we find the Holiday season picking up pace to bring lots of entertainment and activities to the picks of the week Ceasefire: Honouring Remembrance Day, The Cultch honours the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice with the continuing Ceasefire Series as the last of three plays exploring the causes, effects, and traumas of war from different…
Picks of the Week – November 7, 2018
The Holiday season is underway, but this weekend we also take a moment out of the entertainment to remember the 100th anniversary of the armistice of WWI. Ceasefire: The Cultch honours the Armistice with the Ceasefire Series of three plays exploring the causes, effects, and traumas of war from different lenses, Honour: Sunday November 11th, veterans…
Youth Gives A Christmas Story : The Musical, A Leg Up
Align Entertainment kicks off the Holiday theatre season with A Christmas Story : The Musical. The joyful musical is based on the film version of Jean Shepard’s semi-autobiographical anecdotal book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash. The 1983 holiday classic comes to life with book by Joseph Robinette and music and lyrics by…
Backbone Makes You Sit Up & Take Notice
Backbone, now playing at the Vancouver Playhouse, is edge of your seat entertainment! Presented by The Cultch, Australian circus troupe Gravity and Other Myths (GOM) will literally throw your perceptions of circus out the window. Like other contemporary circus/physical theatre troupes, GOM tests the boundaries of the human body. Backbone strips down any flashy sets…
Picks of the Week – October 31, 2018
It’s Halloween night! As the veil between realms is lifted, get out and have a hauntingly good time. Then get ready to fill the longer nights of November with more entertaining picks of the week. Fright: It’s the final night to experience the thrills and chills of the haunted houses, rides and ghouls of Fright Nights…
It’s time for A Christmas Story
As the Halloween season wraps, the calendar flips to bring on the next holiday season. To start Festive season Align Entertainment presents the holiday classic A Christmas Story: The Musical to the Michael J. Fox Theatre stage in Burnaby, opening November 2nd. The multi-Ovation Award-winning producers at Align have assembled a talented cast of local stars and young up-and-comers for…