May brings us the start of another entertaining month of picks around the city
Princess: 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
Warrior: Contining until May 11th, Warrior Festival at The Cultch includes Dance Nation a play by Clare Barron, from the Search Party (Vancouver) at York Theatre. While Love You Wrong Time plays the Historic Theatre with Every Day She Rose is at Vancity Culture Lab
DOCS: The 24th Annual Doxa Documentary Film Festival, continues until May 11 with the festival’s Closing Gala presentation of Patrick Shannon’s Saints and Warriors (2024)
Sharks: Tonight, May 8th, Vancouver Playhouse Presents two shows of National Geographic Live: The Untold Story of Sharks with Dr. Jess Cramp
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.
Jets: CTORA Theatre presents West Side Story, one of Broadway’s most beloved and timeless musicals, running May 8th to 24th, at the Granville Island Stage.
Ballet: May 8-10 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, closing its season Ballet BC presents DUSK; featuring a new creation from a sought-after pair of choreographers, a remount of an acclaimed work, and a world premiere from the company’s Artistic Director.
Balls: Can Whitecaps FC take their winning streak up to 11 matches, find out on Saturday when they play host to LAFC at BC Place
Housing: Until May 11, 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
Coat: May 9-June 8, Metro Theatre wraps up its season with the dazzling spectacle that is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
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.
Mouse: Carousel Theatre for Young People’s production of STUART LITTLE is coming to the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island until May 11.
GO: Western Gold Theatre presents HERE WE GO by Caryl Churchill for its Spring Mainstage Production at PAL Theatre May 8-25.
Dance: May 10 in the Main Stage Theatre at the Surrey Arts Centre, SAMAR: An Evening of Bharatanatyam, offers an enchanting evening of traditional dance, with live music, presented by one of BC’s leading practitioners of the art, Vancouver-based Sujit Vaidya.
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
Market: 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.
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.