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….
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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…
Picks of the Week – October 11, 2023
Moving into Mid-October, the weather and month turns more further towards autumnal and Halloween season activities. Ice: The Vancouver Canucks return to Rogers Arena as the 2023-2024 Season gets underway with a Home Opener against Edmonton Oilers, tonight October 11th Outside: Presented by the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, the 7th annual Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival comes…
Coastal Jazz presents Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Lincoln Centre meets Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre as the Coastal Jazz & Blues Society presents “Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis” for a one-night-only performance on Tuesday, October 10 at The Orpheum. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), featuring 15 of today’s finest jazz soloists and ensemble players, has been the Jazz at…
It’s Curtains for APPLAUSE! Musicals in Concert
Whodunit? APPLAUSE! Musicals in Concert seeks the answer by bringing another forgotten musical to audiences. October 13th to 15th APPLAUSE! presents Curtains, a musical comedy whodunnit with music and lyrics by Broadway collaborators Kander & Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret, Kiss of the Spiderwoman), at Arts Umbrella. Another forgotten musical, Curtains is a hilarious parody that cleverly…
Picks of the Week – October 4, 2024
October is here, bringing with it a change in seasons – new Arts seasons are in full force as shown in these picks of the week! East: The Cultch opens its 50th season with the brilliant, thoughtful Fairview, running until October 8th, the thought-provoking play by Jackie Sibblies Drury is theatre at its best. FeedMe: The Arts…