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…
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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…
Picks of the Week – May 6, 2026
If you weren’t celebrating Cinco de Mayo too hard yesterday, there’s plenty of activities and entertainment to keep moving through these picks of the week Princess: Carousel Theatre for Young People presents Western Canadian Premiere of a new adaptation of The Paper Bag Princess, by Alissa Watson, based on Robert Munsch and directed by Kathleen Duborg, at the Waterfront Theatre…
Some Assembly Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of GLITCH, Free May 6th-9th
The world premiere of GLITCH, produced and presented by Some Assembly Theatre Company comes to the Roundhouse Performance Centre from May 6th to 9th. Written and directed by Artistic Director and Siminovitch Prize nominee Valerie Methot in collaboration with youth and artists, GLITCH is a bold new and original work inspired by young people’s urgent concerns about societal expectations,…
Celebrate Asian Heritage Month at Morrow
As Asian Heritage Month kicks off today, Odd Meridian Arts presents ahmm | Asian Heritage Month at Morrow A four-week festival taking place at Morrow, Odd Meridian’s Richards Street cultural hub in Vancouver’s downtown core, highlights works by Canadian artists from the pan-ethnic Asian diaspora, heroes and anti-heroes whose inquiries abound with elegance and subversion….