Vancouver Island’s acclaimed Chemainus Theatre Festival is returning with a full line-up for its 2022 Mainstage season. Filled with comedy, music, and stories to inspire and nourish the human spirit, the season kicks off with The 39 Steps, the parody by Patrick Barlow, adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film…
Category: Music
Picks of the Week – March 30, 2022
Can it already be the end of March? No fooling, it’s already April filled with entertainment Men: Hit the locker room, as two hockey dads face off in the Vancouver premiere of Zee Zee Theatre’s production of Men Express Their Feelings, wrapping up April 3 at Firehall Arts Centre. Singer: Acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter, Ndidi Onukwulu, known as Ndidi O, brings her…
33rd Festival du Bois returns to Mackin Park, Mallardville
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…
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. …