Vancouver Opera opened its 2023-2024 season with Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Originally staged in the 18th Century, Die Zauberflöte, is a singspiel, a form of opera that includes singing as well as spoken dialogue to tell its story. In this case a fantasy fable that intertwines, love, revenge, perseverance, ancient wisdoms, with elements of Freemasonry…
Author: Jay Minter
20th Anniversary Heart of the City Festival starts October 25th
The Heart of the City Festival celebrates its 20th Anniversary with the 2023 Downtown Eastside Festival running October 25th – November 5th. Co-produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre, which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year, the Heart of the City Festival is focused on listening and learning from the cultural practices of the Downtown Eastside community….
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is coming to Victoria, tickets on sale tomorrow!
The reimagined 50th Anniversary tour of the iconic rock-musical JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, comes to Victoria’s Royal Theatre from January 2 to 7, 2024, following critically acclaimed, sold-out engagements in the UK. Broadway In Victoria has announced tickets for the limited, one-week engagement of the 2017 Olivier awarding-winning production from Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre goes…
Picks of the Week – October 18, 2023
A damp week can’t dampen our spirit, or the spirits of Halloween that are drawing nearer this week. Black: BC Lions wrap up their CFL Regular Season hosting Calgary for a special Halloween Theme Blackout Night Halftime Show on Friday at BC Place White: Saturday is MLS Decision Day! Whitecaps FC have already clinched a…
Applause! Brings Down the Curtain on its 49th Musical, Curtains
Applause! Musicals in Concert has wrapped up the run of its 49th production, Kander & Ebb’s Curtains. The award-winning musical-comedy may be lesser known than Kander & Ebb’s Broadway hits like Cabaret, Zorba, Chicago, Woman of the Year or Kiss of the Spider Woman but has no less of a spectacular score and characters. As…
Peace Country brings the North to Firehall Arts Centre
The World Premiere of rice & beans theatre’s Peace Country is now playing at Firehall Arts Centre until October 22nd. Kicking off Firehall’s 41st season, this excellent new play by Pedro Chamale brings home the realities of what life is like growing up in our Northern communities and how it might look in the near…
See The Pandemic Through Canine Eyes in Michelle Leone Huisman’s CMYK9 Exhibition
Next week, fine art photographer Michelle Leone Huisman presents the Vancouver premiere of her new solo show CMYK9. On display October 19-November 29 at Janaki Larsen Studios, the exhibition features hand-painted photographs and imagines how dogs may have experienced the pandemic — including how their worldviews, similar to humans, may have changed during that tumultuous…