How can it be Thanksgiving weekend already? Wasn’t it just summer? Let see what kinds of entertainment this week has harvested!
Domino: British belter Jesse J brings her powerful voice and pop tunes to the Vogue Theatre tonight.
Pucks: The Vancouver Canucks 49th Season opens tonight as they host Calgary Flames at Rogers Arena
Beer: Raise your mug, grab your schnitzel and hit the dancefloor at #DasOriginal Oktoberfest at Vancouver Alpen Club starting this weekend
Movies: The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is now on, lighting up screens around the city until October 12, 2018.
Dog: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time opens the Arts Club Theatre Company’s season at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage until October 7th.
Twisted: At The Arts Club Granville Island Stage, find out what happens when an imaginary friend overstays his welcome, in Mustard, playing until October 20th
Test: Now open at The Cultch York Theatre, Testosterone is the true story of trans man Kit Redstone’s first entrance into a male gym changing room.
Comedy: Get double days of Jerry Seinfeld as he performs three shows at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Thursday and Friday
Improv: Grab your ghoulfriends and enjoy a month of eerie laughter as Vancouver Theatresports presents Spooktober; a selection of themed shows throughout the month
Poet: Indigenous Hawaiian Kealoha, Hawaii’s first official poet laureate performs at han Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC October 3, 2018, as part of the Beyond Words series at the Telus Studio Theatre
Brothers: A tale of biblical proportions, The Firehall Arts Centre presents The Biting School’s Cain and Abel from October 3rd to October 6th.
Powwow: Kamloopa , playing at The Cultch Historic Theatre until October 6th is a high energy Indigenous matriarchal story following two urban Indigenous sisters and a lawless trickster, on a roadtrip to the West Coast’s largest Powwow.
Melissa Oei, France Perras and Agnes Tong.
photo: David Cooper
Women: Gateway Theatre opens its 2018-2019 season with the 50th anniversary of a Canadian classic, Les Belles-soeurs, a story of 15 women in a raucous, funny and heartfelt romp
Rock: Making their annual visit to the Commodore Ballroom, local legends 54-40 play Friday night.
Diwali: A Vancouver Guldasta peaks inside the home of the Dhaliwals —a Punjabi family in Vancouver as they deal with events at home and abroad in Punjab, in the early 1980s. Presented with Diwali in BC at The Cultch Culture Lab until October 21
Beckett: Seven Tyrants Theatre, opens its first season of work in their new performance venue with Samuel Beckett’s absurdist one-man masterpiece: Krapp’s Last Tape, opening October 5th at Tyrant Studio