Opening next week, Urban Ink and The Cultch welcome new works and past favourites to a free, all-digital TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival, March 28 – May 28, 2023. TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival focuses on empowering Indigenous artists and encouraging collaboration with non-Indigenous artists to build relationships and bring communities together to create lasting social change and ground-breaking…
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Picks of the Week – March 22, 2023
Spring has sprung! Let’s see what the new season brings to this weekend entertaining picks. Dash: The Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage breathes new life into the world of the Dashwood Sisters with its creative staging of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill, onstage until April 2nd Mystery: Until Sunday April 2nd, the Firehall Arts Centre is…
Picks of the Week – March 15, 2023
Beware the Ides of March? Let’s, be aware of the activities of March as we come to mid-month’s picks of the week. Wizard: On stage at Granville Island’s Waterfront Theatre from March 1-26, 2023. Carousel Theatre for Young People is partnering with Kaleidoscope Theatre for Young People to present the Canadian premiere of Oz, a whimsical look at…
My Little Tomato Adds New Flavour to Rom-Coms
Playing until March 19th at The Cultch Historic Theatre, My Little Tomato is a co-production with Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (vAct) and Zee Zee Theatre in association with rice & beans theatre. While the overall premise of My Little Tomato is a boy-meets-boy rom-com, writer Rick Tae and director Cameron Mackenzie along with the two…
Circa’s Sacre Stuns With Its Contemporary Circus Acrobatics
DanceHouse & The Cultch delivered a New Year gift to the city as they co-presented the Canadian Premiere of Sacre, from Australian Circus Company, Circa. The mesmerizing work of acrobatic dance, inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s seminal production The Rite of Spring is directed by Circa’s Artistic Director and CEO Yaron Lifschitz. For five memorable performances the…
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…
DanceHouse and The Cultch present the Canadian premiere of Circa’s Sacre
The (contemporary) circus is coming to town! DanceHouse and The Cultch welcome the thrilling Canadian premiere of Circa’s acrobatic Sacre, taking the Vancouver Playhouse stage from January 17 to 21, 2023. Australia’s internationally renowned contemporary circus company, Circa is making its DanceHouse debut with this visceral, multidisciplinary interpretation of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, directed by Yaron Lifschitz, Artistic Director and…