Making its Western Canadian premiere, Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men is playing until February 15th at Gateway Theatre in Richmond. Evolving since its 2014 off-Broadway debut, a Chicago restaging and 2018 Broadway debut featuring Armie Hammer and Josh Charles, Straight White Men arrives at Gateway Theatre as a tightly scripted, choreographed and staged…
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Arts Club Theatre Company Reveals Its 2020/2021 Season
This week, the Arts Club Theatre Company Artistic Director Ashlie Corcoran revealed the shows comprising the company’s 57th season, a lineup that she calls “a vibrant combination of beloved classics and bold new productions, packed with incredible music and storytelling.” The 2020–2021 season will mark Ms Corcoran’s third at the company’s helm, alongside Executive Director…
Picks of the Week – February 5, 2020
As the Groundhogs gave us a mixed bag of spring predictions this past weekend, the picks of the week deliver a mixed bag of great entertainment for the coming days. Arts: This is the last week to catch the great entertainment delivered by the annual PuSh International Performing Arts Festival before it wraps February 9th. Chocolate: Until February 14th,…
Gruesome Playground Injuries Explores Relationships
Untold Wants Theatre brings Gruesome Playground Injuries to The Cultch Vancity Culture Lab February 5th – 15th. Written in 2009 by American writer Rajiv Joseph, Pulitzer Prize playwriting finalist for “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo”, and Obie-winning playwright for “Describe The Night”, Gruesome Playground Injuries comes to Vancouver after a premiere, starring Selma Blair,…
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Rocks The Royal
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, presented by Broadway in Victoria, sold out Victoria’s Royal Theatre for 5 performances over January 31 – February 2, 2020. Whilst the rain pounded the pavement outside on opening night, inside all thoughts of the weather were washed away by the steady stream of beautiful performances on stage. Beautiful: The…
Frontera Blasts Onto The PuSh Festival Stage
As PuSh International Performing Arts festival moves into its second week, the centerpiece performance of Frontera took the stage. Before a nearly full house at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, a trifecta of visual artists collaborated on Frontera. Montreal choreographer Dana Gingras & her Animals of Distinction dance company took the stage backed up…
Noises Off Goes Over The Top At The Arts Club
A farce is defined as a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations – Noises Off at The Arts Club Theatre Company Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage certainly meets that definition. Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, is often referred to as one of the funniest plays ever written….