As we head further into January we find the city’s roster full of festivals and entertainment! Canyon: This is the last week to experience Canyon Lights with the heights of the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park in North Vancouver as thousands of lights illuminating the bridge, trails and trees glowing until Sunday Panto: The digital edition on-demand performances of East…
Tag: Marionettes
Little Willy, Huge Laughter! Ronnie Burkett’s Daisy Theatre returns to The Cultch
Ronnie Burkett’s Theatre of Marionettes newest production, Little Willy, brings the Daisy Theatre back to the Historic Theatre until January 29th. Little Willy, finds the marionette Daisy Theatre (within the Historic Theatre) attempting a loose…very loose…adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. From the opening number of burlesque star Dolly Wiggler kicking off with…
Picks of the Week – January 11, 2023
Already into the second week of the new year, we find plenty of entertainment picks to view this week. Noods: If you were lucky enough to get tickets, tonight Vancouver Foodster’s 9th Annual Noodle Mania explores the city looking for noodles; from Chinese chow mein to Japanese udon to Italian Bucatini, Vietnamese rice noodles –…
Little Dickens: The Daisy Theatre is anything but small
The Cultch Historic Theatre is presenting an evening of marionette madness with Ronnie Burkett’s Little Dickens featuring the cast of The Daisy Theatre. Starring Daisy Theatre’s past-her-prime diva Esmé Massengill in the Scrooge role, and a cavalcade of Daisy Theatre stars helping bring the Dickens story of A Christmas Carol to life…or to strings. Toronto-based The…
Sleeping Beauty Dreams at Presentation House Theatre
This week, North Vancouver’s Presentation House Theatre debuted, Sleeping Beauty Dreams, its first collaboration with Mexico’s Marionetas de la Esquina. This production, running until February 4th, is the Canadian premiere of the work written my Marionetas de la Esquina’s Amaranta Leyva, whose team has translated the original work and instructed the Presentation House team on…