After an online edition last year, the 33rd edition of Festival du Bois is ready to return, April 1-3, live and in-person to Mackin Park in Coquitlam. Following a successful digital 32nd Festival, in-person audiences can expect a weekend of brilliant folk, roots, global and Québécois music from French Canada and beyond. Audiences can expect…
Author: Jay Minter
Alegría brings the joy of Cirque du Soleil back to the Concord Pacific Place
The familiar Grand Chapiteau has once again returned to the Vancouver waterfront at Concord Pacific Place as Cirque du Soleil’s Alegría In a New Light opens. After a 20 month shut down of its touring shows, the intermission is over for Cirque du Soleil as it welcomes audiences once again. Privileged to attend opening night…
Let Made In Italy make your night, at The Arts Club
Until April 17th, Farren Timoteo’s Made In Italy is now playing at The Arts Club Granville Island Stage. Delayed by Covid from its original January run, it’s been worth the wait for the laughs and fast-paces entertainment that come with the one-man show. The semi-autobiographical story of Francesco Martini, and his family of Italian immigrants,…
Picks of the Week – March 23, 2022
Spring is upon us, the season refreshes the scene with plenty of entertaining fun for everyone Sisters: Laugh along with the joyous nonsense that is Boone Dog Productions’ Nunsense, the musical-comedy playing at Metro Theatre until March 27th. Stage: See the show that spawned the series as The Arts Club Theatre brings Ins Choi’s Kim’s Convenience to the Stanley Industrial Alliance…
Emerge on Main highlights Rising Artists to Fox Cabaret April 12
Don’t miss your opportunity to hear the sounds of tomorrow, today, as live music returns to the Fox Cabaret April 12 with the mesmerizing violin and electronics duo Sapphire Haze drawing audiences into their immersive sound-world at Music on Main’s annual Emerge on Main concert. Sapphire Haze is the duo of Cindy Kao (violin) and Aysha Dulong (electronics) who are familiar to Music on Main audiences. …
Find Adventure, In Wonderland at Gateway Theatre April 7-16
Reflecting these topsy-turvy times, Gateway Theatre is presenting the BC premiere of In Wonderland from April 7-16th, to close its 2021-2022 season. The imaginative and contemporary retelling of Lewis Carroll’s classic novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, is told with only three actors, Sarah Roa, Natascha Girgis (Nine Dragons, 2019), and…
Hey Viola! Brings Viola Desmond to life on stage.
While many of us are aware of Viola Desmond, as the face on the Canadian $10 bill, or perhaps from the Canadian Heritage Minute, Hey Viola! shows there’s more to the civil rights icon than that one moment in time. Like its namesake, Hey Viola! is dignified and quiet as it makes a statement about…