Vancouver Island’s Chemainus Theatre Festival celebrates its 30th Anniversary with the announcement of its 2024 Season. For thirty seasons, the iconic domed theatre has welcomed audiences from near and far to the seaside village for fine dining at the Playbill Dining Room and presentations of rousing musicals, raucous comedies, heartfelt dramas and great Canadiana. 2024…
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Vancouver Opera Reveals Its 65th Anniversary Season
As Vancouver Opera recent presentation of Don Pasquale marks the midway of the current season the Company prepares to celebrate its 65th anniversary with the announcement of its 2024–2025 season. In October, Strauss’ eternally-charming Die Fledermaus opens the season, followed by Jonathan Dove’s compassionate contemporary classic Flight in February 2025. Puccini’s sublime masterpiece Madama Butterfly…
Picks of the Week – February 21, 2024
As we move further into February, big events abound in these picks of the week Celebration: Tonight, at long last, the postponed Madonna’s Celebration Tour brings her greatest hits to Rogers Arena Seven: Get out your fancy dress costumes and head to BC Place for the three day spectacle that is HSBC Vancouver SVNS –…
Picks of the Week – February 14, 2024
Happy Valentine’s Day, as the occasion fills restaurants and florists with customers we still find plenty to choose from in the picks of the week Chocolate: It’s the final day to sample sweet sips of the 14th Annual Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival at 100 locations with in neighbourhoods across Greater Vancouver. Opera: The Vancouver Opera season continues with…
Hop To See Bunny at Anvil Theatre, until February 18
Don’t wait, leap to New Westminster as the Anvil Theatre presents the Search Party production of Bunny by Hannah Moscovitch until February 18th Emma Slipp embodies ‘Sorrel’, who tells us her tale in a biographical look at her life and loves. Raised in a family of intellectual Bohemians, with only Victorian literature to guide her…
Picks of the Week – February 7, 2024
As February moves along we find Lunar New Year festivities filling out the picks of the week. Chocolate: Keep sipping until February 14th, the 14th Annual Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival continues with over 100 locations offering 160 flavours spanning 10+ neighbourhoods across Greater Vancouver. Comedy: Best known for its classic 1964 adaptation starring Rock Hudson and Doris…
Sing the Praises of Choir Boy at The Arts Club
Feel the music and emotions swell as the Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage welcomes Choir Boy, by Tarell Alvin McCraney until February 25, 2024. The brilliant coming-of-age play is filled with beautifully sung gospel music, sung a cappella by the incredibly talented cast. Written by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Academy-award winning screenwriter for…