Opening tomorrow, Gateway Theatre presents the B.C. premiere of Prophecy Fog by award-winning Indigenous artist Jani Lauzon. Prophecy Fog is based on her voyage to the sacred site of Giant Rock in California’s Mojave Desert. For thousands of years, Giant Rock was a spiritual site for Indigenous nations. Today, it’s covered in graffiti and surrounded…
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Picks of the Week – March 8, 2023
Winter keeps clinging on but we’ve got plenty of activities to put a spring in your step with this week’s picks. Master: It’s the last chance before closing, March 9th, for you to interact with a Master’s great works, in a new exhibition, Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience running at the Agriplex at Cloverdale Fairgrounds in…
Interview: Todd Talbot, stars in Crazy For You at Royal City Musical Theatre this Spring
For its 31st season, Royal City Musical Theatre (RCMT) presents the Gershwin comedy musical Crazy for You at the Massey Theatre from April 27 – May 14. A classic romantic comedy about a boy, a girl, and a theatre in need of salvation, it is full of humour, larger-than-life characters and some of the greatest…
The Arts Club reveals its 60th Anniversary Season
Revealing its 60th Anniversary Season, The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Artistic Director, Ashlie Corcoran and Executive Director Peter Cathie White outlined a season filled with hit musicals, dynamic dramas, returning favourites, rave revivals. In honour of this diamond anniversary, Corcoran said, “The Arts Club has a history—and a future—of never being content with the status…
Picks of the Week – March 1, 2023
March, already? As we go marching nearer to spring, there’s plenty of action in these picks of the week. Rugby: Canada Sevens, Vancouver’s most exciting sporting weekends of the year returns to BC Place Stadium, March 3-5, 2023, with the biggest Canada Sevens tournament yet. Now incorporating both the Men’s and Women’s tournaments into the…
Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers Story tours BC, closing at Massey Theatre March 11
The Everly Brothers are back, and on tour near you in the musical Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers Story, returning to stages around BC this March. Direct from the UK and presented by Paquette Productions, Walk Right Back returns to stages in 2023 by popular demand. Learn the history and listen to the music…
Touchstone Theatre brings the World Premiere of The Wrong Bashir to Firehall Art Centre
This Thursday, Touchstone Theatre presents the World Premiere of The Wrong Bashir by Ismaili playwright Zahida Rahemtulla at the Firehall Arts Centre stage. Touchstone Associate Artistic Director Daniela Atiencia (2022 Jessie Award co-Winner in Outstanding Direction) directs this comedy which follows Bashir Ladha (Aman Mann) —a wayward philosophy major leaning towards nihilism – who has…