Vancouver’s Hardline Productions latest work, Redpatch, is a celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the contribution and sacrifice made by Canada’s First Nations, Metis and aboriginal people. With an all Aboriginal cast, Redpatch follows the a young Métis, Woodrow or Halfblood, played by co-writer Raes Calvert, who longs to be…
Category: Theatre
Mom’s The Word 3 – Nest Half Empty at the Arts Club Theatre
The hilarious team of Mom’s The Word returns to The Arts Club Theatre for the threequel – Mom’s The Word 3 – Nest Half Empty. Through the years, we’ve followed the moms, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nicol, Barbara Pollard and Deborah Williams, as they experienced the trials and tribulations of becoming new parents, suffered through…
Picks of the Week – April 12, 2017
Let’s hop to it and celebrate the Easter Long Weekend with these picks of the week; Improv: Laugh your chaps off at Western World, the new show at Vancouver Theatresports League, their take on HBO’s Westworld Glass Slipper: Broadway across Canada brings Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre until Sunday Live: Thursday,…
Documenting The Watershed at Gateway Theatre
Now on stage at the Gateway Theatre in Richmond, The Watershed is an interesting and topical piece of documentary theatre. Originally commissioned for the Arts and Culture program of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, Annabel Soutar’s The Watershed followers her and her family on an exploration of the Nation’s precarious fresh water supply. Although…
Picks of the Week – April 5, 2017
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…
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…