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…
Author: Jay Minter
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…
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…
Jasmine Chen’s Jade Circle comes to Gateway Theatre Studio B
Visionary artist Jasmine Chen will inspire you to rediscover and reclaim your mother tongue as she premieres her multidisciplinary performance, Jade Circle, to Richmond’s Gateway Theatre, Studio B, from March 6 to 17. Experience culture and familial legacy through powerful music, captivating movement, and a narrative that seamlessly weaves between Mandarin and English. Directed by…
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…
Send Me No Flowers, Sends Up The Laughs at Metro Theatre
The silly-Sixties are well in hand as Metro Theatre presents Send Me No Flower until February 24th. Written by by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, Send Me No Flowers, is best known as the 1964 Rock Hudson – Doris Day romantic comedy, adapted from their 1960 Broadway play. This production, directed by Emma Graveson stars…
10 Ways To Celebrate The Lunar New Year Of The Dragon
This Saturday February 10, marks the start of year 4722 on a Chinese Calendar and the Lunar New Year of the Dragon, those born in 2024, 2012, 2000, 1988, 1976, 1964, 1952, are celebrating ‘their birth sign year’. The fifth of the 12 zodiac animals, the dragons are majestic, ambitious and powerful. Their confidence and…