In just one month, JFL NorthWest, Vancouver’s comedy festival returns, for a third year of laughter, starting Thursday, March 1st until Saturday, March 10th, 2018, and you could enter to win your way to one of the festival’s hilarious live comedy shows. Once again the festival features the best and brightest of live comedy, podcasts…
Picks of the Week – January 31, 2018
Wrapping up the first month of 2018, as we look up tonight on a rare Super Blue Blood Moon eclipse tonight, it seems an appropriate start to the Lunar New Year season in these picks of the week. Fest: The 2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival moves into its final weekend with plenty more picks to get out…
Legally Blonde brings Elle Woods to Michael J Fox Theatre
Oh My Gawd, You Guys! Align Entertainment is bringing the award winning Legally Blonde the Musical to Michael J Fox Theatre in Burnaby, February 2 – 17, 2018. Perfectly coordinated for Valentine’s Day, pretty in pink Elle Woods and her dog Bruiser show you can’t judge a book by its cover, then she gets ‘serious’…
Sleeping Beauty Dreams at Presentation House Theatre
This week, North Vancouver’s Presentation House Theatre debuted, Sleeping Beauty Dreams, its first collaboration with Mexico’s Marionetas de la Esquina. This production, running until February 4th, is the Canadian premiere of the work written my Marionetas de la Esquina’s Amaranta Leyva, whose team has translated the original work and instructed the Presentation House team on…
The Phillips Backyard Weekender announces 2018 line-up
While we’re still in the grips of winter, The Phillips Backyard Weekender has come along to make us think of summer with the release of the 2018 festival line-up. For three days in July, The Phillips Brewery backlot transforms into Victoria’s biggest backyard brewery party. Great music, great beer, and a great audience make the Weekender…
Topdog/Underdog battle for supremacy at Arts Club
Last night, the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Topdog/Underdog opened at the Arts Club Theatre Company Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre. The two act, two-hander is an intense two hours of rapid fire dialogue and emotions, written by Suzan-Lori Parks, the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, and directed for The Arts…
Picks of the Week – January 24, 2018
In these picks of the week, we find the last of the festive season’s celebrations wrap up and Vancouver’s winter festivals continuing. Canyon: Take your first look of the season or return for your last visit amongst the treetops of the tallest illuminated trees and much more at Canyon Lights Winter Festival at Capilano Suspension Bridge…