Spooky Season is in full swing, plenty of thrills and chills abound with plenty of entertainment to fill the Halloween week’s picks Disco: Put on your bell-bottoms, flower crowns, and peace signs, because it’s time to celebrate the era of peace and love and admire the new artwork created by Olivier Salvas Artiste for Disco Nap:…
Category: Music
Chutzpah! Festival 2023 Connects Communities Starting November 2
The 2023 Chutzpah! Festival returns November 2-23 with a dynamic program of performances of music, theatre, comedy, dance, multimedia arts, and film. For over two decades the Chutzpah! Festival has been connecting communities and celebrating our stories. With the festival hub at the JCC, artists will once again share their work and grace the…
Vancouver Opera Opens Its Seasons with The Magic Flute
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…
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…