A Canadian Heritage Minute comes to life on-stage, in The Arts Club’s Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story. Playing until August 29th, Beau Dixon’s musical drama tells the story of Maurice Ruddick, a survivor of the 1958 Springhill, NS Mining Disaster. Known as The Singing Miner, Ruddick was one of the six ‘miracle miners’ who…
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Stream, Pageant: A Musical Comedy Beauty Contest
“Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.” said The Kinks – those words aptly apply to Pageant: A Musical Comedy Beauty Contest, in which that odd and somewhat tarnish artefact of the recent past, the All-American Beauty Contest, gets a re-gendered 21st century makeover—leaving laughter in its wake. After 2018’s successful (but too short) run…
Picks of the Week – August 11, 2021
The dog days of summer are wrapping up with the start of another heat wave, and plenty of hot picks of the week Arts: Queer Arts Festival (QAF) 2021 Dispersed – it’s not easy being green, wraps up this Friday, August 13. It’s your last chance to catch the hybrid digital and in-person suite of visual art, performance,…
The Cultch goes from East Van to Edinburgh
The Cultch is reaching across the globe for its latest series – East Van to Edinburgh – bringing five dynamic shows from Vancouver to audiences in the UK, Canada, and all around the world from now until August 28, 2021. Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest celebration of arts and culture. Every August, Edinburgh…
Picks of the Week – August 4, 2021
Moving further into Summer, the picks of the week keep coming to fill out the season with fun arts and activities. Arts: Queer Arts Festival (QAF) 2021 Dispersed – it’s not easy being green, continues until August 13, a hybrid digital and in-person suite of visual art, performance, music, literary and workshop events in a dispersed format across the…
I, Claudia brings audiences back to The Arts Club
The Arts Club Theatre Company has pulled back the curtain once again to welcome audience back to the Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre for I, Claudia. The first play in the 2021 Summer Series, the one-performer, multiple-character play written by Kirsten Thomson, and directed by Marie Farsi, runs until August 15th. Through the…
Carousel Theatre brings The Tempest to Granville Island, Live
Carousel Theatre for Young People (CTYP) on Granville Island is the latest theatre organization to return to the stage with live in-person performances. After a digital streaming version in 2020, CTYP’s annual Teen Shakespeare Program returns with a week of live performances of The Tempest from July 31 to August 7 featuring audiences outdoors in…