The 19th Annual Talking Stick Festival is taking the stage from today February 18 through February 29 bringing a vibrant celebration of Indigenous artistry to various venues around Vancouver. Produced by Full Circle: First Nations Performance, Talking Stick Festival gathers Indigenous artists, and experts from around the world to share their talent and knowledge, presented through…
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Make an Appointment with Vancouver Opera’s The Barber of Seville
For the Valentine’s season Vancouver Opera has delivered another beautifully-staged love story to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera The Barber of Seville is known as one of the foremost works of opera buffa – Italian comic opera, even 200+ years after its debut. The Barber of Seville brings all the stereotypes of…
2020 Coastal Dance Festival Celebrates Indigenous Culture
Dancers of Damelahamid is warming up for the 13th annual Coastal Dance Festival, a celebration of Canadian and global Indigenous stories, song, and dance. Taking place February 25–March 1, 2020 at two locations; the Anvil Centre in New Westminster and at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. The 2020 program includes the festival debut of Tooma Laisa and Leanna Wilson (Inuit), a musician duo…
Decode Cipher at The Arts Club
A decades-old cold case, science, intrigue, spies, conspiracy, racial profiling and romance, are all parts of the puzzle that playwrights Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths present in Cipher. The Arts Club Theatre Company in partnership with Calgary’s Vertigo Theatre are presenting the World Premiere of Cipher until March 7th at The Granville Island Stage. The…
Picks of the Week – February 12, 2020
Cupid is readying his bow and arrow for his annual day of work helping lovers find their Valentine’s. There’s plenty of picks to help everyone find activities to make the weekend fly by. Chocolate: Just days remain to sample the 10th Annual Hot Chocolate Festival before it wraps up on February 14th. Slurp: Postponed in January due to…
Romance Week brings Love & Laughs to Vancouver Theatresports
In the lead-up to Valentine’s Day, Vancouver TheatreSports (VTS) is celebrating the way the way it does all things, with laughter. During Romance Week, until February 15th, VTS is squeezing out every drop of fun, comedy and spontaneity they can find in love and romance. Laugh it up with your loved one or grab a gaggle of your…
Straight White Men play at Gateway Theatre.
Making its Western Canadian premiere, Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men is playing until February 15th at Gateway Theatre in Richmond. Evolving since its 2014 off-Broadway debut, a Chicago restaging and 2018 Broadway debut featuring Armie Hammer and Josh Charles, Straight White Men arrives at Gateway Theatre as a tightly scripted, choreographed and staged…