The Gateway Theatre’s 2016-17 season has opened with the Canadian Premier of “King of the Yees”. Award-winning playwright Lauren Yee’s semi-autobiographical play may be set in San Francisco’s Chinatown but it is transferable to our own Chinatown and Chinese heritage. Told as a play within a play, King of the Yees, breaks the fourth wall…
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Witch Academy at Fly Over Canada
School is in session for the season at Broomelda’s Haunted Witch Academy at Fly Over Canada. Starting today until October 31st, Broomelda and her cat Midnight are ready to lead trainee witches and wizards on a spellbinding coast to coast to coast ride. If you hang on to your broom and make it across Canada then…
Picks of the Week – October 12, 2016
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and now for some fall and Halloween fun in the picks of the week… Flicks: There’s still a couple days left to catch a film at the 35th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival before it closes Oct 14th. Folk: Canadian singer-songwriter Basia Bulat brings her folk sounds to The Vogue Theatre tonight Halloween: The…
Watch “The Flick” at The Arts Club
It’s not often you can combine a night of live theatre with watching the cinema, that’s exactly what you get with The Flick on stage now at The Arts Club Theatre Granville Island Stage. Be a fly on the wall and see what happens when the viewers leave and the staff take over to clear…
James & Jamesy In The Dark at Waterfront Theatre
For a unique evening of theatre, catch James & Jamesy In The Dark at Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island until October 16th. In The Dark is a performance that literally begins in the dark with the only lighting coming from the players’ custom created illuminated costumes. Start with the whimsy of Pixar’s earliest work, add surreal philosophical questions of…
Picks of the Week – October 5, 2016
Turkey time is upon us, while we spend the Thanksgiving long weekend with or thinking of our friends and family, we’ll keep ourselves entertained with these picks of the week; Films: The 35th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival continues to bring cinema from around the world to theatres around the city. Improv: You never what you’re going…
2016 Fright Nights Haunt Playland Oct 7 – 31
Scare up some spooktacular entertainment starting this Friday! Fright Nights takes over Playland starting Friday October 7th. Serve up some chilled with 7 haunted houses; Asylum, Darkness, Fear, Car-N-Evil, Haunted Mansion, Hollywood Horrors and Keepers Doll Factory. Live thrills are provided by the returning Monsters of Schlock comedy-stunt show, Radiant Heat Fire Troupe and 90 monsters…