As we come to the end of the first month of 2025, we welcome the Lunisolar New Year. Chinese, Taiwanese, Koreans, Mongolian, Vietnamese and other East Asian communities celebrate the Spring Festival adding to an array of entertaining picks of the week Snake: The Chinese Zodiac Year of the Snake brings out a host of…
Category: Theatre
Metro Theatre brings Norm Foster’s Sinners to Stage
Metro Theatre presents Sinners, a comical farce by Canada’s most produced playwright, Norm Foster until February 15th. Part bedroom farce, part mystery farce, Sinners is all laughs. Focusing on a chaotic few hours in the life of Peter Kramer, an amiable but in-over-his-head furniture store owner played by Josh Zumstien. When Peter is caught in…
The Three Musketeers Bring Swagger To The Arts Club Stage
The Arts Club Theatre Company leaps into the new year with the sensational, swashbuckling comedy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage until February 16th. Adapted by Catherine Bush from the classic novel the novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers brilliantly brings all the action, adventure and camaraderie of the…
Wade into the Magic of Circa’s Duck Pond presented by DanceHouse & The Cultch
DanceHouse and The Cultch annual collaboration brings the dynamic Duck Pond by the Australian contemporary circus company, Circa, to the Vancouver Playhouse until January 25th. Duck Pond brings together the classic works of Tchaikovsky’s iconic Swan Lake with Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling. Composer and Sound Designer Jethro Woodward blends Tchaikovsky’s timeless score with contemporary…
Picks of the Week – January 22, 2025
As we move into the later half of January, the city comes out of it’s post-holiday slumber with festivals, entertainment, and more opening up in these picks of the week Circus: The annual collaboration of The Cultch and DanceHouse brings Circa (Australia) back to Vancouver Playhouse with their production of Duck Pond, a contemporary take…
Dine Out Vancouver Festival x PuSh Festival Combine Food & Performing Arts
Date nights are made easy with both Dine Out Vancouver Festival (January 22-February 9) and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (January 23-February 9) beginning this week, offering a bounty of prix fixe menus and international performing arts throughout the city. Here’s few PuSh performances with nearby Dine Out locations that make pairing a meal and…
Studio 16 presents Western Canada Premiere of multi-award winning Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Mitch and Murray Productions presents the Western Canadian premiere of Heroes of the Fourth Turning, January 31 to February 9 at Studio 16. The multi-award winning, and Pulitzer Prize finalist play is written by Will Arbery, a lead writer for HBO’s “Succession”. Set one week after the Unite The Right Rally and subsequent Charlottesville riots…