With the closure of most bars, clubs and cabarets due to COVID-19 restrictions, the self-employed queer artists who grace the stages are facing a difficult financial situation. It’s a drag but these artists are taking matters into their own hands, putting on their faces and giving up a show to remember – Virtual Drag Show…
Category: Theatre
Bard on the Beach cancels 2020 Season
Western Canada’s largest Shakespeare festival has announced it will not be presenting a 2020 season this summer. The Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival was scheduled to run from June 10 to September 26 in Vancouver’s oceanside Vanier Park, where the signature annual event has been staged for the past thirty years. However, due to…
Picks of the Week – April 8, 2020
The Easter Weekend usually draws family gatherings and long weekend activities but this year we will continue to find ways to keep ourselves entertained whilst staying home. Photos: The annual Capture Photography Festival, is now open with a newly reimagined program to take into account these days of physical distancing and self-isolation, running until April 30, 2020….
Vancouver Opera appoints new General Director
Even though the current season has come to an abrupt end due to COVID-19 precautions, Vancouver Opera is looking to the future and its 60th Anniversary 2020-2021 season. Vancouver Opera Board Chair, Bill Maclagan, Q.C., recently announced the appointment of current interim General Director, Tom Wright, as Vancouver Opera General Director. “With thirteen seasons as Vancouver Opera’s Director of Artistic Planning and his exemplary leadership during our…
#CanadaPerforms – in your Living Room
The National Arts Centre in Ottawa is Canada’s home to some of the country’s most creative artists. Through each of its disciplines, the NAC Orchestra, Dance, English Theatre, French Theatre, Indigenous Theatre and NAC Presents programs. Centre strives to live up to its motto: “Canada is our Stage.” As with all Arts programming across the…
Picks of the Week – March 25, 2020
The cloud of COVID-19 hangs over the globe, with even more restrictions and closures, so we must find our own entertainment for this week’s picks. Art: Vancouver Art Gallery isn’t letting a COVID-19 closure stop it from offering a host of activities to help everyone be creative during its Digital Spring, each day the VAG…
Picks of the Week – March 18, 2020
With the unprecedented closure of nearly everything due to COVID-19 prevention, the new reality means we’re on our own to find ways to entertain ourselves. Let’s see what we can find to help pass the time in these online picks of the week. Theatre: Although live performances are now cancelled The Frank Theatre and Zee Zee…