July has swiftly arrived (along with a month’s worth of rain, apparently), along with a great selection of activities in the picks of the week. Bard: Bard on the Beach continues through the Summer, live at Vanier Park with A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the Mainstage, with Harlem Duet on at Howard Family Stage. Boots: You’re in for a good time,…
Category: Theatre
The Cultch Fall 2022 Season Has Something For Everyone
The Cultch is preparing to welcome audiences back for its in-person Fall 2022 Season, recently announcing a line-up of six shows to fill its stages from September until the new year! It is a jam-packed season of meaningful shows, full of heart and spectacle. “We are thrilled to bring you six incredible shows from international,…
Picks of the Week – June 29, 2022
Wrapping up June with the Canada Day Long Weekend ahead means a packed picks of the week! Together: Canada Together, the 36th annual Canada Day at Canada Place, takes the largest event outside of Ottawa in a new direction, planned collaboratively with the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations with a day of family entertainment from…
Robin Hood Debuts Presentation House Theatre Summer Outdoor Season
Presentation House Theatre is taking it outside for the company’s inaugural Summer Outdoor Theatre program, July 16 – 23. A timely tale of Robin Hood and his merry band take to the theatre’s grounds in an adaptation by Ontario’s The Lakeside Players that casts Robin Hood’s beloved characters in a fun and fresh new light….
12th Indian Summer Festival prepares to heat up
As the weekend’s heat made us think of summer, the 12th Indian Summer Festival (ISF), Vancouver’s ‘festival for the curious mind’, is preparing to return to in-person experiences.From July 7 to July 17, 2022, the carefully curated festival is guided by the theme of ‘Inner / Outer Climates’ with both ticketed and free events, hosted…
34th Annual Dancing on the Edge hits the stage
The 2022 Dancing on the Edge Festival (DOTE) gets underway July 7th. Festival Producer, Donna Spencer, is delighted that Canada’s oldest and longest running contemporary dance festival, will once again welcome audiences for both indoor and outdoor live performances. As always, this year’s DOTE will deliver high calibre, challenging, innovative and spell-binding works and dance…
Step into the lives of Harlem Duet at Bard On The Beach
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Djanet Sears’ Governor-General’s Award-winning drama Harlem Duet comes to Bard on the Beach during its 33rd season. Taking inspiration from Shakespeare’s Othello, directed by Cherissa Richards, Harlem Duet explores the complicated relationship of a Black couple during three different eras of the American Black experience: Plantation era pre-US Emancipation Proclamation; the Jazz-Age New York…