Oh My Gawd, You Guys! Align Entertainment is bringing the award winning Legally Blonde the Musical to Michael J Fox Theatre in Burnaby, February 2 – 17, 2018. Perfectly coordinated for Valentine’s Day, pretty in pink Elle Woods and her dog Bruiser show you can’t judge a book by its cover, then she gets ‘serious’…
Category: Theatre
Sleeping Beauty Dreams at Presentation House Theatre
This week, North Vancouver’s Presentation House Theatre debuted, Sleeping Beauty Dreams, its first collaboration with Mexico’s Marionetas de la Esquina. This production, running until February 4th, is the Canadian premiere of the work written my Marionetas de la Esquina’s Amaranta Leyva, whose team has translated the original work and instructed the Presentation House team on…
Topdog/Underdog battle for supremacy at Arts Club
Last night, the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Topdog/Underdog opened at the Arts Club Theatre Company Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre. The two act, two-hander is an intense two hours of rapid fire dialogue and emotions, written by Suzan-Lori Parks, the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, and directed for The Arts…
Picks of the Week – January 24, 2018
In these picks of the week, we find the last of the festive season’s celebrations wrap up and Vancouver’s winter festivals continuing. Canyon: Take your first look of the season or return for your last visit amongst the treetops of the tallest illuminated trees and much more at Canyon Lights Winter Festival at Capilano Suspension Bridge…
Some Hope For The Bastards opens PuSh Festival 2018
This week, the 14th Push International Performing Arts Festival opened at Vancouver Playhouse with a performance of Some Hope For The Bastards. Montreal choreographer, dancer, musician Frédérick Gravel returns to PuSh Festival with another unique dance spectacle. A music-dance hybrid, Some Hope For The Bastards is the kind of unexpected show you expect from PuSh…
Picks of the Week – January 17, 2017
As we move into the second half of January, in the picks of the week we find last year’s Festive events ending and the new year’s Festivals beginning. Festival: Catch the dozens of Chinese lanterns covering the 14 acre Vancouver Chinese Lantern Festival at the PNE before they go dark this weekend, January 21st Lights: Lights at Lafarge Coquitlam’s…
Midtwenties Theatre Society goes Above The Hospital
Midtwenties Theatre Society and Red Gates Art Society present the new play Above The Hospital, until January 21st at Red Gates Review Stage on Granville Island. The new production is the first written by director Beau Han Bridge, founder of Midtwenties Theatre Society. As with Midtwenties Theatre Society’s debut, This Is Our Youth, Beau Han…