Fresh from performing Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre in New York City, Vitaly Beckman brings his latest and most ambitious production to the stage with An Evening of Wonders on Wednesday, June 5th, to the River Rock Show Theatre. Hailed as one of the most unique and innovative illusionists in the world, Vitaly Beckman’s acts are so astounding…
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Magnetic North Theatre Festival is back for 2019
Following two hiatus years, Magnetic North Theatre Festival is returning to the stage, hosted in Metro Vancouver June 1-9, 2019. Canada’s only national theatre festival focuses on Canadian work and engaging participants from across the country, including invited guests from abroad. The renewed festival will no longer be strictly focused on theatre. As the lines…
Picks of the Week – May 29, 2019
As expected from Gemini season, it seems there’s double the entertainment on offer as we move into June’s first picks of the week Rain: Seven Tyrants closes their first season at Tyrant Studios with the remount from last season’s award-winning “A Steady Rain” from May 23rd – 31st. Musical: Adapted from Roald Dahl’s novel about the precocious, pint-sized, imaginative…
Matilda The Musical, Mesmerizes
“Children Are Maggots”, that is the motto of the Crunchem Hall Primary School, run by grim headmistress Miss Trunchbull, in Matilda The Musical. Now playing at The Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, Matilda the Musical is based on Roald Dahl’s children’s fantasy novel, adapted by Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin….
Picks of the Week – May 22, 2019
With Victoria Day behind us, we move into the summer entertainment season and plenty of picks of the week… Festival: The Arts Umbrella Theatre & Music Department’s 2019 Expressions Theatre Festival, continues to bring entertainment to the stage until May 25 at Waterfront Theatre Puppets:Museum of Anthropologie’s Shadows, Strings and Other Things features a broad array of puppets, old and…
Colin Mochrie returns to Vancouver TheatreSports
Prepare for loads of laughter when Colin Mochrie, Vancouver TheatreSports (VTS) alumnus and star of Whose Line Is It Anyway, returns to Vancouver TheatreSports for three benefit performances. All performances benefit Vancouver TheatreSports, a registered non-profit charity, and the Colin Mochrie Scholarship Fund at VTS’ theatre school, The Improv Comedy Institute. Established in 2014, this scholarship provides assistance to those wishing to study improv but…
Eternal Theatre Collective presents, the musical, bare
Eternal Theatre Collective (ETC), Vancouver’s youth theatre company is bringing Off-Broadway to Off-Oak St when they present their next musical bare, at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver from May 29th to June 8th. An acclaimed Off-Broadway musical, bare is a pop opera that focuses on coming out and growing up, told from the perspective of…