‘Twas the Wednesday before Christmas and all through the city, many people were stirring, in a great festive flurry. Activities, Illuminations, Theatre and Exhibits all keep us entertained in this Holiday Picks of the Week. Broadway: Gateway Theatre’s A Broadway Holiday wraps up its run of heartwarming holiday favourites tomorrow evening; the festive concert featuring a…
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The Dance Centre Opens the New Year with Open Stage
Scotiabank Dance Centre is starting the new year with the 2nd edition of its Open Stage program, January 9, 2022, postponed until April 3, 2022. Featuring a program of dance works by Anya Saugstad and Artists, Lamondance, Linda Hayes, Rachel Maddock, and Tomoyo Yamada, Open Stage is a new program initiated by The Dance Centre,…
Gateway’s Back With A Broadway Holiday
We all need a little Christmas, and Gateway Theatre’s A Broadway Holiday has a whole lot of it, right this very minute! For Gateway’s first return to the stage with an in-person performance since the start of the pandemic, co-creators Barbara Tomasic and Christopher King have assembled a cast and song list that is sure…
The Cultch Announces Its Winter-Spring 2022 In-Person Season
Yesterday, The Cultch announced the next half of its 2021/2022 in-person programming. After a successful, mostly digital fall lineup, and East Van Panto, on-stage now, a full roster of in-person shows in coming to finish the season. As The Cultch welcomes back live audiences, they remain as committed to exploring digital works, stay tuned this…
Picks of the Week – December 15, 2021
It’s the final fun-up to Christmas, just 10 days to go, but still a lot of entertaining picks of the week Bach: Tomorrow night, Early Music Vancouver – Festive Cantatas: Bach’s Christmas Oratorio feat. Pacific Baroque Orchestra features some of the most popular Christmas music of Germany in the 18th century by Johann Kuhnau and…
Catch a SNOWFLAKE in its Canadian Premiere
Mitch and Murray Productions, in association with Red Gate Revue Stage, are presenting the Canadian premiere of SNOWFLAKE until December 23 on Granville Island. A critically-acclaimed festive story by Olivier Award-winning playwright Mike Bartlett, SNOWFLAKE is likely a far truer depiction of many families’ Christmas than the time-tested holiday plays we’re used to seeing this…
Picks of the Week – December 8, 2021
The Holiday season is in full swing, bringing more and more seasonal entertainment to these picks of the week Panto: The annual tradition, East Van Panto: Alice in Wonderland – back at The Cultch York Theatre until January 2, 2022 with in-person or online performances, as a terribly bored Alice follows a White Rabbit onto the Skytrain,…