The Gateway Theatre holiday season musical is always one of my favourites. However, like everything this year, the show will be a bit different but I’m sure it will be a can’t-miss hit. As current pandemic restrictions are keeping us from social gatherings, Gateway Theatre has curated the aptly titled Home for the Holidays. Premiering…
Category: Music
do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata – streams at The Cultch
An audience favourite, do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata is back at The Cultch Historic Theatre, in a brand new virtual performance. The personal ads may no longer exist on Craigslist but voyeuristic delight of reading them lives on in this musical revue by Bill Richardson, Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone. A quirky cast…
Picks of the Week – November 18, 2020
As we move later into November, we tick closer to the Holidays and find the city trying to brighten up our lives for a very different Season ahead. Opera: November 22 streamed live from Chan Centre for Performing Arts, UBC Opera students present two different casts performing online concerts of opera favourites, from Dido and Aeneas,…
Picks of the Week – November 10, 2020
To honour Remembrance Day we will take a moment of silence on November 11th, and post the Picks of the Week a day early. Choir: Tonight, Chor Leoni’s 29th annual Remembrance Day concert takes place live in your home as the singing Lions transition their tradition of Remembrance to digital. RVSP and watch online at chorleoni.org…
The Playbill at Chemainus Theatre presents Cabaret Series
The Playbill Dining Room at Chemainus Theatre is bringing back live entertainment with its Cabaret Series. The Playbill Dinner & Live Entertainment presents a line-up of live performances by Sarah Carlé, Ken Lavigne, Michael Clarke, and Joëlle Rabu & Nico Rhodes. Many dates for November are already sold out but new shows are being added,…
20th Annual Chutzpah! Festival Returns
The 20th Annual Chutzpah! Festival is returning this November 21 – 28, with its program available online, with special intimate shows live streamed from the stage of the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre. The Chutzpah! Festival celebrates its 20th year with a line-up filled with new and exciting, critically acclaimed artists from all over the world working…
Global Soundscapes Festival Adapts for 2020
The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra’s annual Global Soundscapes Festival is returning with an online line-up being released throughout November. The Festival features the sounds and rhythms that celebrate the intersection of Canadian cultures with musical traditions from all over the world. This virtual 2020 edition of Global Soundscapes Festival has been re-imagined as a series of 16…