Will April’s showers deliver May flowers? There’s a bountiful bouquet of entertaining picks of the week
Princess: Opening tonight at The Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage until May 25, Casey And Diana by Nick Green, is inspired by Princess Diana’s historic, compassionate visit to Toronto’s Casey House in 1991
Anniversary: Some Assembly Theatre Company launches its 25th anniversary season with OUR LAST TREE from tonight until Saturday, May 3 at the Roundhouse Performance Centre
Warrior: Join the joyful resistance of the Warrior Festival at The Cultch five fierce and funny shows take centre stage. This week; Dance Nation a play by Clare Barron, from the Search Party (Vancouver) continues until May 11 at York Theatre. While Love You Wrong Time plays the Historic Theatre with Every Day She Rose is at Vancity Culture Lab running May 1 to 11
Dolly: Tumble out of bed and stumble to the Massey Theatre for a rollicking good time as Royal City Musical Theatre presents Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 The Musical, on stage until May 11.
Soccer: Saturday, MLS top team Whitecaps FC return to the pitch at BC Place to host Real Salt Lake
Lacrosse: Sunday, Vancouver Warriors hit Rogers Arena to host the NLL Playoff semi-final Game 2 versus Buffalo Bandits
DOCS: The 24th Annual Doxa Documentary Film Festival, returns May 1 to 11 with the festival’s Opening Gala presetation of Elizabeth Vibert and Chen Wang’s Aisha’s Story (2025).
Flowers: The Abbotsford Tulip Festival is on until May 11th at Lakeland Flowers, home to 35 acres of tulips with lupins, peonies, lavender, meadow flowers and more blooming through the season.
Bachelornation: Fridays & Saturdays The Improv Centre presents The Bachelor-ish – one lucky improvisor is looking for love in this hilarious, audience-led send up of The Bachelor
Mouse: Carousel Theatre for Young People’s production of STUART LITTLE is coming to the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island from April 23 to May 11.
Butterfly: Closing the 2024-25 season Vancouver Opera’s Madama Butterfly brings a powerhouse production of Puccini’s iconic work to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre stage until May 4.
Housing: The Frontliners is a new comedic drama by Zahida Rahemtulla taking audiences to an East Vancouver hotel in early 2016 where three beleaguered employees scramble to find homes for new families from Syria in the midst of a housing crisis on stage at Firehall Arts Centre May 1-11
Choir: Chor Leoni’s signature community choral festival, the Big Roar, comes the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on May 3rd.
Market: Starting May 1st, Junction Public Market, returns to Granville Square – 200 Granville Street. For its second year, the unique shipping container marketplace, will feature rotating pop-ups, local artisans, food vendors, a licensed patio, live entertainment, and special events planned throughout the season, all for with free entry.
VIVA: Wrapping up May 2nd, Vancouver’s Iranian Visual Arts (VIVA) Alliance has announced the launch of a new venue, Medias Res Gallery, at 401-353 Railway Street, with the gallery’s inaugural exhibition Henna Night II / Shabe Kheena II by Hangama Amiri, the Afghan-Canadian artist’s first solo exhibition in British Columbia
Canadian: Showing until May 18, Griffin Art Projects presents a new group exhibition, Seriously? Comedy and Satire in Canadian Art 1970s–Now, the exhibition is guest curated by Melissa E. Feldman, the groundbreaking show challenges traditional perceptions of Canadian contemporary art.
Exhibitions: Coquitlam’s Place des Arts celebrates the opening of three new exhibitions: Your Image, Various mediums coordinated by Coquitlam Heritage; Urban Invitation, Watercolours by Dong Li; and Colonial Layers, Mixed Media and Sculpture by Robert Morris on view in-person at Place des Arts and online until May 22
Photographs: On display until May 25th, The Polygon Gallery presents the Canadian premiere of Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s Tranquility of Communion an exhibition of the brief but influential career of the late British-Nigerian artist
Aging: Until June 1st, MONOVA: Museum & Archives of North Vancouver presents the Feature Exhibit, Echoes of Memory: Featuring A Crow A Day, weaving together untold stories of aging, memory loss & dementia, and the power of community on our collective human experience
Multimedia: Restless by Nature: Mary Sui Yee Wong, 1990s to the present at Richmond Art Gallery is an important new retrospective exhibition of multi-disciplinary artist Mary Sui Yee Wong, on display until June 8
Nuxalk: The Museum of Anthropology at UBC is presenting the world premiere of Nuxalk Strong: Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun, on display at MOA until January 5, 2026.
Haida: Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the Vancouver premiere of the retrospective exhibition Kihl ‘Yahda Christian White: Master Haida Artist running until February 1, 2026.