This weekend experience a moment of jazz history as the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts presents The Jazz Epistles: Abdullah Ibrahim with guest Terence Blanchard in a rare tribute concert, on Sunday February 18. In the 1950s South Africa’s The Jazz Epistles were the hip, young things of the jazz scene. Now more than…
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Fun Home grows up on The Arts Club stage
The 2015 Tony Award winning Best Musical, Fun Home makes its Canadian debut on The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Granville Island stage. Based on the graphic autobiography by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, and directed by Lois Anderson, Fun Home features the adult Alison (Sara-Jeanne Hosie) trying to overcome a bout of writer’s block. While looking back…
Picks of the Week – February 14, 2018
Happy Valentine’s lovebirds! This week Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year Celebrations offer plenty to get you out of the house, the picks of the week will help to sort out what’s on. Chocolate: Perfect for your after dinner chocolate craving, the Hot Chocolate Festival wraps up tonight. Romance: Romance week at Vancouver TheatreSports League wraps up tonight but…
Next To Normal tackles mental illness
West Moon Theatre is presenting the award-winning rock musical Next To Normal at Studio 16 Theatre until February 17th. In a unique turn, this production is double cast with two separate casts taking on the challenging musical’s heavy content and numbers. The double cast allows for two interpretations of the characters and brings a different…
Katy Perry wraps up The Witness Tour in Vancouver
Katy Perry – Rogers Arena – February 6, 2018 Last week, Katy Perry brought her Canada/US leg of The Witness Tour to a close in Vancouver. Supported by local songstress, Carly Rae Jepsen, the finale of the tour was an added night, used to film the tour for future use. After 52 tour dates, the…
The Art Club Ashlie Corcoran announces 2018-19 season
This week, The Arts Club Theatre Company announced the shows coming for the 2018-2019 season. As we reach the midpoint of the current season, the final season for long-time Artistic Director Bill Millerd’s before he retires, the incoming Artistic Director Ashlie Corcoran is making her mark on the future of the Arts Club. “For this…
Picks of the Week – February 7, 2018
These picks of the week find us moving into our first long weekend of 2018 and the Valentine and Lunar New Year season. Taste: Vancouver Foodster’s Tasting Plates explores Mount Pleasant along Main Street, tonight February 7th Musical: Learn to bend and snap as Align Entertainment brings the award winning, bubbly Legally Blonde the Musical to…