TAFF Art Society, in collaboration with VIVA Alliance, brings a new play, To Love Or Not To Love, by Majid Tafreshi to the Annex theatre from August 27 to 30. Inspired by Nezami Ganjavi’s twelfth-century romantic epic Khosrow and Shirin, Tafreshi’s To Love Or Not To Love is an original absurd play-within-a-half-musical. Set inside a…
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Picks of the Week – July 29, 2026
Somehow, in the blink of an eye, the August BC-Day Long Weekend is upon us, bringing with it a host of entertaining picks to full your weekend Pyrotechnics: A long-time Vancouver summer tradition is back, albeit in a new abbreviated format, with Summer Lights in English Bay, a free, one-night fireworks event taking place on…
Bard on the Beach Launches Late Night Levity with Bard After Dark in August
While the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival season continues with Merry Wives of Windsor and Macbeth on the BMO Mainstage and Antigone and Goblin: Oedipus on the Douglas Campbell Theatre, in Senákw/Vanier Park. Now, something new joins the Season, as Bard After Dark enters the Douglas Campbell Theatre, with four performances on August 7, 14, 21, and…
The Vancouver Cultural Precinct Proposes a Bold Investment In The City’s Arts Infrastructure
This week, the Vancouver Cultural Precinct (VCP), an alliance of performing arts and community leaders led by the Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society, announced its vision for a state-of-the-art performing arts district in downtown Vancouver, featuring four new or renovated, acoustically-designed performing arts venues. To develop its vision VCP undertook a two-year feasibility study,…
Picks of the Week – July 22, 2026
Now that the FIFA World Cup has come to an end, we continue with summer entertainment picks Granville: The World Cup may be gone but the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone continues until Labour Day – Granville Street (between Davie & W Georgia St) is a car-free zone with entertainment, activations, music, workshops and expanded street-side patios to keep…
Black Box Theatre Co. Welcomes The Movie Star In August
The Movie Star, a new comedy from Black Box Theatre Co., the company behind The Play That Goes Wrong and Wonderwall, comes to Waterfront Theatre from August 13 to 23. Written and produced by James Barclay, co-founder of Black Box Theatre Co. The Movie Star tell the story of Hollywood superstar Cole Gray (played by…
Picks of the Week – July 15, 2026
Half-way through the summer, and as FIFA World Cup wraps up, there is still plenty to entertain us in these picks of the week Fan: The FIFA FAN FEST comes to a close this weekend, but not before some last big matches. Today, Argentina vs England with entertainment from Wolf Parade and Fiest. Friday is a Signature…