This February, Grandma is making a getaway! Ruby Slippers Theatre with the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Presentation House Theatre, and Blackout Art Society presents The World Premiere of Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla. by Abi Padilla. Taking the stage at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Burnaby), February 6-8 and Presentation House Theatre (North Van): February 13-16,…
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Picks of the Week – New Year January 1, 2025
Happy New Year! We’ve made it to 2025! Many of the festive season’s events wrap up this weekend before we begin a new year of new entertaining picks Trees: Wrapping up today, January 1st, stroll the Canadian Trail West Promenade and North Point of Canada Place beneath the Sails of Light, take in the heritage Woodward’s Windows…
Start the year with Circa’s Duck Pond, an acrobatic take on Swan Lake
The new year begins with the BC premiere of Circa’s Duck Pond presented by DanceHouse and The Cultch, at the Vancouver Playhouse. A vibrant full-length performance re-imagining the world’s most romantic ballet, Swan Lake, as a cheeky, acrobatic spectacle is directed by Yaron Lifschitz Artistic Director and CEO of Circa. Accompanied by Composer and Sound Designer Jethro Woodward’s soundtrack, Duck Pond merges Tchaikovsky’s timeless…
Laugh in the New Year with RCTC’s Knotted: Rapunzel’s Story
The festive season continues when The Royal Canadian Theatre Company’s annual holiday pantomime, Knotted: Rapunzel’s Story, comes to Massey Theatre January 3-5, 2025 Rapunzel (Jodie Aguinaldo) has been locked away in her tower for 18 years… until now. Princeton and Herr Brusch are happy to keep her at Barber Academy but the bad guys are…
The Improv Centre brings THE HEAT this Winter
The Improv Centre (TIC) on Granville Island melts the winter chills with laughter warming up their second annual improv comedy festival, THE HEAT – An International Improv Comedy Showcase. Returning to Granville Island from Tuesday, January 28 to Saturday, February 1, 2025, the comedy festival hosted by The Improv Centre brings improv troupes from around the…
Picks of the Week – December 18, 2024
With just one week until Christmas and there’s still plenty of festive activities to entertain in the picks of the week! Orphan: For it’s annual holiday extravaganza, Gateway Theatre presents Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, the award-winning musical adaptation of the classic Dickens novel, is on the Gateway Mainstage until January 4th Sugar Plum: Goh Ballet’s The Nutcracker annual production returns…
Cinderella: A Traditional British Pantomime with a Modern Twist at Metro Theatre
Metro Theatre invites you to the King’s Christmas Ball in Cinderella: A Traditional British Panto until January 5, 2025. For its 39th year, Metro Theatre welcomes the holidays with the can’t-miss family favourite event onstage for another season of screaming, shouting, singing and scenery-chewing hi-jinx. Written and directed by the acclaimed Shel Piercy, with choreography…