The 29th season of UBC Opera is bringing three varied operas to the stage that highlight and challenge the talents of the UBC Opera Ensemble. Audiences are invited to experience a 2024-25 season that offers the full spectrum of opera with the jubilant humour in H.M.S. Pinafore, the realist tragedy of Street Scene, and the…
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The Improv Centre Welcomes The Kids In The Hall’s Kevin McDonald
Love to Laugh?The Improv Centre (TIC) on Granville Island is presenting The Kids in the Hall’s Kevin McDonald for a weekend of hilarity this August. “Unhinged with Kevin McDonald” on August 24th is a night of improv and stand-up with the Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian, and co-founding member of The Kids in the Hall. …
Picks of the Week – July 17, 2024
Midway through July, the entertainment, activities and the weather keep heating up. Folk: The 47th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival returns to Jericho Beach Park, July 19-21 with a lineup featuring beloved folk and roots songwriters to dance-inducing rhythm makers, heart-searing harmonizers, to global instrumental aces and much more! Rock: Ring of Fire, lets the…
Measure For Measure Brings Beats To Bard on the Beach.
The Bard on the Beach production of Measure for Measure is now playing at The Howard Family Stage in The Douglas Campbell Theatre until September 20, 2024. Adapted and directed by Jivesh Parasram, this high energy production works modern pop-culture music, references and innuendo into a 400 year-old story featuring themes of politics, money, consent…
Leaky Heaven Performance collaborates with local youth on the slapstick comedy Slip Slap Trip Wack
A unique community artistic collaboration is coming to the Russian Hall as Leaky Heaven Performance presents the world premiere of Slip Slap Trip Wack from July 26th to 28th. The family-friendly work brings to life the imaginative worlds of 8–12-year-olds, in a creative collaboration between the artists of Leaky Heaven and youth who live near…
School’s Out For Summer, but ‘School of Rock’ is In Session at TUTS 2024
Theatre Under The Stars 2024 season opens another Andrew Lloyd Webber hit musical School of Rock, playing in repertoire at Malkin Bowl until August 24th. With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey), and based on the Mike White (White Lotus) penned 2003 film of the…
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS Creates Memories at TUTS 2024
Theatre Under The Stars opens its 2024 season with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical Cats, playing in repertoire until August 23rd. Appropriately climaxing with perhaps one of the most well-known works of musical theatre, Memory, this dazzling sung-through musical leaves you with lasting memories. Based on T.S. Eliot’s book of poetry “Old Possum’s Book of…