April Showers us with plenty of entertainment to start the month and these picks of the week
Velvet: Opening tonight, The Arts Club Theatre’s Red Velvet brings the true-story of the first Black actor to tread the boards as Shakespeare’s Othello to the Stanley Industrial Alliance stage until April 21st
Opera: Burnaby Lyric Opera presents Puccini’s beloved La Bohème at the Shadbolt Centre for Arts James Cowen Theatre for five performances April 6-11
Burlesque: The Vancouver International Burlesque Festival is back for a week of show-stopping local and international Burlesque until April 7th
Box: The National Lacrosse League’s Vancouver Warriors play host to Halifax Thunderbirds at Rogers Arena on Friday April 5
Peace: The season of peace on earth echoes in the the Disco Nap collection created by Olivier Salvas Artiste on display at Bean on Hastings
Improv: The Improv Centre has a laughter-filled line-up of improv theatre sports comedy and tonight including Friday Jr (Thursdays) and Date Night (Wednesdays)
Laughs: Stand-up comedian, Jo Koy, fills Rogers Arena with laughter on Sunday April 7th
Balls: Vancouver Whitecaps host cross-country rivals Toronto FC at BC Place Stadium on Saturday afternoon
Baltimore: You can’t stop the beat of Broadway Across Canada’s Hairspray on tour at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for seven performances until April 7th.
HipHop: Chinese Rapper KnowKnow from the hip hop group Higher Brothers comes to the Commodore Ballroom tonight, April 2
Punk: American duo Sleater-Kinney’s Little Rope Tour comes to the Vogue Theatre on Thursday April 4 with support from Palehound
Virtual: Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre is the kick off for the Hatsune Miku Expo 2024 North America tour presented by Crunchyroll
Riot: Tomorrow, celebrate the opening of Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia, a survey exhibition of the feminist art collective, at The Polygon Gallery running until June 2, 2024.
From the action ‘Putin Peed his Pants,’ 2012. Photo: Denis Bochkarev
Photo: The 11th annual Capture Photography Festival welcomes the community to experience and explore Western Canada’s largest lens-based art festival until April 30, 2024.
Disco: Get on your dancing shoes, Saturday the Commodore Ballroom welcomes the ABBA inspired dance-party, Gimme Gimme Disco
Ballet: Three performances April 5-6, Ballet BC’s Take Form puts the dancers in charge of this unique program entirely created, produced, and performed by them.
Stand-up: American comedian, podcaster, writer, and television host Jared Freid brings his stand-up The Family Business Tour to the Vogue Theatre on Sunday
Film: The 1927 silent film classic Metropolis by Fritz Lang screens with live music accompaniment by Vancouver electronic duo Beautiful Violence at the Shadbolt Centre
Renegades: Friday, Vogue Theatre welcomes X Ambassadors, supported by Noah Gunderson, to the stage to kick off their Canadian Tour in support of their latest album Townie
Femme: An artist’s private world is disrupted when a childhood friend reappears as The Cultch’s Femme Festival starts with Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre and Medusa Theatre’s Parifam at the Historic Theatre April 4-14
Blooms: The first ever Harrison Tulip Festival will soon bloom, bringing the biggest and most beautiful bounty of bulbs to the Fraser Valley opens April 8th