In just under a month, the 2026 Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival returns to Senakw/Vanier Park. With the Festival’s 37th Season featuring a blend of Shakespearean comedy and tragedy with two unique adaptations of Greek classics, there’s something for everyone in the audience to enjoy. “We are thrilled to bring together the work of Shakespeare and Sophocles for an unforgettable season…
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Picks of the Week – May 20, 2026
The May long weekend has come and gone, and unlike parts to the East who experienced snowy long weekends, here on the snowless West Coast it moved us into (unofficial) Summer season Improv: Who couldn’t use a laugh at the end of the work week? Find plenty of guffaws with The Improv Centre’s show Exploration Blank – a rotating,…
Pacific Theatre reveals its All-Canadian 2026/27 Season
Pacific Theatre (PT) has announced its 2026/2027 season, debuting its new home at the Revue Stage on Granville Island with a season of bold and compelling works. The season begins on the road with Pacific Theatre’s first national tour of Ins Choi’s award-winning Son of a Preacherman, which premiered at its long-time former 12th Avenue home stage in April…
Vancouver International Children’s Festival celebrates its 49th year of live family entertainment
The 49th Annual Vancouver International Children’s Festival returns from May 25 – May 31, bringing Granville Island an exciting week of world-class theatre, music, dance, circus, puppetry and storytelling. The 2026 lineup features 14 professional performing artists from as far-reaching as Italy, Denmark and South Korea. With 80 scheduled performances, The Festival offers families looking to…
Picks of the Week – May 13, 2026
The Victoria Day May Long Weekend brings the unofficial start to summer in BC bringing along plenty of entertaining picks of the week Summit: The 2nd Web Summit Vancouver is underway, until tomorrow packing the Vancouver Convention Centre with hundreds of organizations, start-ups, investors, with speakers, roundtables, and fireside chats bringing the the latest in…
OMIGOD! Legally Blonde The Musical closes the Metro Theatre Season
The Metro Theatre season closes its Season of Joy with the joyous Legally Blonde The Musical on stage until June 7th. The feel good comedy-musical, with book by Heather Hach, based on the novel by Amanda Brown which was also adapted into the 2001 Reese Witherspoon movie, follows the story of Elle Woods, played in…
Discover ENEMY LINES at Firehall Arts Centre until May 9
Opening last night, May 8, Mayumi Lashbrook’s Enemy Lines brings down the curtain on Firehall Arts Centre’s season with just three more performances, Thursday, Friday and Saturday night at 7:30pm The performance mixes dance and multi-media, with a biographical look back at the trials and trauma of her Japanese immigrant great-grandmother Tsuyako Sumioka’s early life…