While COVID-19 restrictions have us sticking close to home, let’s see what virtual picks are still available to entertain us at home or in-person in our household bubbles. Origins: Tonight, Chan Centre for Performing Arts at UBC and Early Music Vancouver present Origins-Music of the Tang Dynasty, a free (donations encouraged) online performance by Silk…
Category: Theatre
BC’s Margaret Grenier wins 2020 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts.
For just the second time in its 19 year history, the Canada Council for the Arts has announced a BC winner of the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts. Margaret Grenier, choreographer, dance artist, Executive and Artistic Director of Dancers of Damelahamid, and Producer and Director of the annual Coastal Dance Festival,…
Stay HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS with Gateway Theatre
The Gateway Theatre holiday season musical is always one of my favourites. However, like everything this year, the show will be a bit different but I’m sure it will be a can’t-miss hit. As current pandemic restrictions are keeping us from social gatherings, Gateway Theatre has curated the aptly titled Home for the Holidays. Premiering…
do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata – streams at The Cultch
An audience favourite, do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata is back at The Cultch Historic Theatre, in a brand new virtual performance. The personal ads may no longer exist on Craigslist but voyeuristic delight of reading them lives on in this musical revue by Bill Richardson, Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone. A quirky cast…
Picks of the Week – November 18, 2020
As we move later into November, we tick closer to the Holidays and find the city trying to brighten up our lives for a very different Season ahead. Opera: November 22 streamed live from Chan Centre for Performing Arts, UBC Opera students present two different casts performing online concerts of opera favourites, from Dido and Aeneas,…
Co.ERASGA in bringing OFFERING to Anvil Centre
Co.ERASGA, a local contemporary dance company, is celebrating its 20th anniversary season with the world premiere of its newest presentation, Offering. Coming to New Westminster’s Anvil Centre November 28 & 29, founder, choreographer and Artistic Director Alvin Erasga Tolentino has created a collection of solo works, performed by 6 of Vancouver’s finest and diverse…
Lowest Common Denominator comes Off the Page at Presentation House Theatre
The November instalment of Off the Page, a monthly play reading series at Presentation House Theatre is taking place on November 22nd. Off the Page is a live-streamed rehearsed reading of award-winning Vancouver playwright Dave Deveau’s provocative drama, Lowest Common Denominator – telling the story of recently divorced, Harmony (played by Janet Hodgkinson), enjoying a…