I guess we need these April showers bring May flowers? Before we picks spring blooms, let’s see what’s in these picks of the week. Champions: The Vancouver Whitecaps play host to Mexican club Tigres in the second leg of the CONCACAF Champion’s League semi-final Folk: Canadian folk-pop act City And Colour comes to the stage Thursday…
Category: Theatre
Picks of the Week – March 29, 2017
No fooling, we find some entertaining fun in this edition of the picks of the week; Angels: The Arts Club has the Tony Award winning Angels in America: Part 1 onstage at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage through April 23 Dining: Thursday, dine out and do some good during Dining Out For Life a benefiting…
Uncover the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival ’17
Shake a tail-feather and get your tickets now for the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival. Canada’s most prestigious and long-running burlesque festival, showcases Vancouver’s long history with the art of burlesque and cabaret dancing. In the 1940’s Vancouver nightclubs rivaled the hotbeds of Montreal and San Francisco as a mecca for burlesque. Since 2006, the Burlesque…
Refuge – a powerful play at Firehall Arts Centre
Balancing a fair refugee system and public safety are especially topical subjects with the current global debate on immigration. Halagonian Mary Vingoe’s play, Refuge, reminds us that even a country as diverse as Canada has been touched by class, culture and sectarian violence as well as blemishes in our treatment of refugee claimants. A powerful and…
Picks of the Week – March 22, 2017
Finally, Spring is here! At least we can hope for something resembling spring to come along. Let’s see what the Picks of the Week find for us to do Dance: The last weekend of the Vancouver International Dance Festival finds even more entertaining dance throughout the city. Stage: The award winning drama Angels In America: Part One…
Picks of the Week – March 15, 2017
“Beware the Ides of March” … while we’re not worried about a soothsayer’s warning, we’re ready to climb the mid-March hump hopefully putting snow behind us and finding fun in our picks of the week. Jazz: Grammy Award winning trumpeter Chris Botti joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for tonight’s performance at Orpheum Theatre Pucks: The Vancouver Canucks…
Picks of the Week – March 8, 2017
Let’s hope the snow finally behind us and we can get on with our regular spring entertainment in the picks of the week Plates: Tonight, help celebrate Vancouver Foodster’s 5th Anniversary Tasting Plates – Downtown Vancouver Blues: Canadian Blues-Rocker Colin James plays the Orpheum Theatre Wednesday night Last chance: It’s your final chance to catch…