Can you believe we’re already at the end of July?! Summer is sizzling and so is the city’s arts & culture scene.
Bard: Make your picks between a brilliant Beatles themed version of As You Like It or the dramatic Macbeth on the Mainstage, and find Timon of Athens or Lysistrata on the Howard Family Stage at Bard on the Beach 2018
Irish: Tonight is the final night to catch the new, young Irish theatre company Untold Wants Theatre Co.’s Vancouver debut of the acclaimed drama, The Human Ear.
Balls: Vancouver Whitecaps get two kicks at the net in BC Place this week; tonight on the second leg of the Canadian Championship against Montreal then Saturday Minnesota arrives for the annual Pride Match.
Bats: Starting Friday, Vancouver Canadians Baseball hit the diamond for a 5 game home stand at Nat Bailey Stadium
Mod: Bring back those memories of Pretty in Pink as the Psychedelic Furs play the Commodore Ballroom on Saturday night.
Laugh: Get a good laugh at those millennials and a whole lot more at Vancouver Theatresports League when you check out the fun at Avocado Toast or the brand new show WTF – What The Fun! opening this Friday
SkyHigh: Take your dining experience to new heights with Dinner In The Sky, high above the shore of North Vancouver until July 29th.
Stars: The stars and future stars come out as Theatre Under The Stars opens its 2018 season of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and 42ND Street on alternating nights at Malkin Bowl.
Abba: You’ll have a hard time not singing along at the Abba musical Mamma Mia! at the Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre Stage, until August 12th
Irish: Once is not enough to see, the final show of the 2018 Arts Club Theatre Company season, ONCE, now extended until August 5th at the Granville Island Stage.
Gala: Pride Season is underway as The Lady In Red Ball brings style and fun to Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
Wild: The Museum of Vancouver latest exhibit Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives, which takes a look at the relationship between local plants and animals and the people and places in the city, until 2019
Midway: Enjoy summer excitement at Playland opens daily from July 29th for all your family’s summer excitement, or leave the kids at home for Playland Nights, Fridays from 7pm to Midnight
Music: The CBC Musical Nooners are back for another year, bringing lunch time music to the outdoor CBC Plaza on Hamilton Street
Exhibit: Get away to the cabin at the Vancouver Art Gallery as Cabin Fever a new exhibit tracing the history of the North American cabin as an architectural form and a cultural construct, on view until September 30, 2018.
As well, David Milne: Modern Painting on until September 9th, offers highlights of Milne’s half-century career, which took him from New York City, to the battlefields of Northern France and Belgium, and back to the wilderness of Canada and the US.
Stage: The Ensemble Theatre Company Summer Repertory Festival continues until August 17 with a trio of plays running through August: Dark Road by Ian Rankin, A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin & The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Resist: Until October 8th at MOA, Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America, invites visitors to take a closer look at the political and social significance of Latin American artistic traditions to express political realities.