Days are getting shorter and darkness is overtaking us as we’re scaring up some fun in the picks of the week as Halloween sneaks up on us; Plates: Tonight, take a culinary trip around Yaletown with Vancouver Foodster’s Tasting Plates – Yaletown edition. Icon: Tonight at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, rock icon Alice Cooper brings…
Category: Theatre
King of the Yees at Gateway Theatre
The Gateway Theatre’s 2016-17 season has opened with the Canadian Premier of “King of the Yees”. Award-winning playwright Lauren Yee’s semi-autobiographical play may be set in San Francisco’s Chinatown but it is transferable to our own Chinatown and Chinese heritage. Told as a play within a play, King of the Yees, breaks the fourth wall…
Picks of the Week – October 12, 2016
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and now for some fall and Halloween fun in the picks of the week… Flicks: There’s still a couple days left to catch a film at the 35th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival before it closes Oct 14th. Folk: Canadian singer-songwriter Basia Bulat brings her folk sounds to The Vogue Theatre tonight Halloween: The…
Watch “The Flick” at The Arts Club
It’s not often you can combine a night of live theatre with watching the cinema, that’s exactly what you get with The Flick on stage now at The Arts Club Theatre Granville Island Stage. Be a fly on the wall and see what happens when the viewers leave and the staff take over to clear…
James & Jamesy In The Dark at Waterfront Theatre
For a unique evening of theatre, catch James & Jamesy In The Dark at Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island until October 16th. In The Dark is a performance that literally begins in the dark with the only lighting coming from the players’ custom created illuminated costumes. Start with the whimsy of Pixar’s earliest work, add surreal philosophical questions of…
Picks of the Week – October 5, 2016
Turkey time is upon us, while we spend the Thanksgiving long weekend with or thinking of our friends and family, we’ll keep ourselves entertained with these picks of the week; Films: The 35th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival continues to bring cinema from around the world to theatres around the city. Improv: You never what you’re going…
Picks of the Week – September 28, 2016
We’re into the first full week of autumn and the city is filled with films, sports and much more in the picks of the week Tacos: Who doesn’t like tacos? Tonight, Vancouver Foodster’s Taco Crawl highlights taco tastes all around the city Improv: Just like the GOP Candidate, you never what you’re going to hear when you…