Vancouver Opera’s season continues with two more performances of Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera, Don Pasquale February 15 and 18. Opening last Saturday at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Don Pasquale is another opulent production, with whimsical sets, comic turns, and soaring vocals – and laundry! Before the curtain raises a full-height Fotoromanzo (romantic-comic photo novel) teases audiences with…
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Montreal’s La Nef Sets Sail To Join Chor Leoni In The Return Voyage
Yo Ho! Montreal’s award-winning La Nef travels west to join Vancouver’s own JUNO-nominated Chor Leoni for The Return Voyage, a rousing night of nautical songs. February 16th and 17th at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church, listen along to the tales of those lives led abroad in the 18th and 19th centuries, embodying the thrill of…
CTORA brings The Lightning Thief to the stage May 18-28
Packed with Mythology, Music, and Magic, CTORA Theatre (formerly known as Children’s Theatre of Richmond) is bringing The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, to the the JCC Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre, 950 W. 41st Ave. The electrifying musical stage adaptation of the best-selling novel by Rick Riordan, with book by Joe Tracz with…
Astrolabe Musik Theatre is bringing Into the Little Hill to SFU Woodwards
Astrolabe Musik Theatre in partnership with SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs is bringing the Canadian premiere of UK composer George Benjamin’s chamber opera Into the Little Hill to the stage. The lyric tale told in two parts comes to SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre Friday May 19 and Saturday…
As The Flying Dutchman closes out this season, Vancouver Opera reveals it coming 2023–2024 season.
As Vancouver Opera closes out its 2022-2023 season it has announced the performances coming in the 2023–2024 season. With Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman wrapping the current season with performances April 29, May 4 and May 7, audiences won’t have to wait long in anticipation of the new season. The Vancouver Opera 2023-2024 season begins in…
TUTS 2023 Season Takes Audiences to School
Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) returns this summer with a 2023 season that is both hilarious and heartwarming, featuring The Prom and Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, on stage at Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park, from July 6-August 26, 2023. Welcoming audiences since 1940, this year’s TUTS productions take audiences from high school prom…
The 34th Annual Festival du Bois packs Maillardville with music & fun this weekend!
The 34th annual Festival du Bois is returning to Maillardville in Coquitlam this weekend, March 24-26, with a brilliant line-up of artists and performers under the tents at Mackin Park. Rooted in the French-Canadian community and heritage of the Maillardville area in Coquitlam, Festival du Bois is the largest and most popular celebration of francophone…