The Dance Centre opens its 2024/25 Global Dance Connections Series with the West Coast premiere of Agrimony, September 20 & 21 at Scotiabank Dance Centre. Vancouver-based choreographer Sophie Dow and UK-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Laura Reznek’s striking multidisciplinary collaboration walks the edge between evocative live concert and embodied contemporary dance, and examines our desperate search for authenticity within a society…
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As You Like It or The Land Acknowledgement Opens The Cultch Season
The Cultch opens its 2024/2025 season by presenting Cliff Cardinal’s As You Like It or The Land Acknowledgement, a production from Crow’s Theatre (Toronto), September 25-29 at the York Theatre, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Taking its title from William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, offering a double meaning…
Fall For The Funny with Betrayers at The Improv Centre
The Improv Centre (TIC) on Granville Island will have you falling over with laughter this Fall with its new feature show, Betrayers. Showing, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm from Friday, September 27 to Saturday, November 2, Betrayers begins with a special opening night performance on Thursday, September 26 at 7:30pm. Inspired by the hit reality…
Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society Takes First Steps with a Cultural Precinct Feasibility Study
The Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society (VCHTS) has made an important step in its goal to create a cultural precinct for Vancouver. Recently announcing that it has retained Diamond Schmitt, a Toronto-based national architectural firm, to undertake a feasibility study relating to its plan for a proposed new performing arts facility in Vancouver. Planned…
Twelfth Night Brings the Carnival to Bard on the Beach
The Twelfth Night carnival has come to Illyria, and the audience is in for an fun-filled rollercoaster ride into excitement! On stage for just one more month, Twelfth Night at Bard on the Beach is a riotous good way to wrap up the summer. Director Diana Donnelly has adapted the Shakespeare classic into a light-hearted,…
Picks of the Week – August 28, 2024
We’ve hit the last long weekend of Summer as the Labour Day weekend is upon us, but not before plenty of activities and entertainment hit these back to school picks of the week! Cinema: Tonight is Vancouver Civic Theatres‘ Final Summer Cinema with WONKA playing on the big screen in the plaza starting at dusk Sounds: Summer Sounds, Vancouver Civic…
Disney On Ice presents Magic in the Stars Making its Vancouver Debut
When you wish upon a star, you might just find magic in the stars! This winter, Disney On Ice presents Magic in the Stars an all-new production bringing the brightest Disney stars to life at the Pacific Coliseum from November 27 – December 1, 2024. With cutting-edge figure skating, high-flying acrobatics, unexpected stunts, innovative lighting,…