A farce is defined as a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations – Noises Off at The Arts Club Theatre Company Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage certainly meets that definition. Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, is often referred to as one of the funniest plays ever written….
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Twelve 2020 plays for you to give the gift of Theatre this Christmas
Save yourself some shopping stress, give the gift of Theatre this Christmas. Vancouver has many great theatre companies, large and small, presenting plays, musicals and performances for the whole family. Here’s a sampling of a few of the stage productions coming in Spring of 2020 that will delight the arts lover on your Christmas list……
It’s a Wonderful Christmas-ish Holiday Miracle at Arts Club
If you’re looking for a feel-good, funny, contemporary holiday evening, check out It’s a Wonderful Christmas-ish Holiday Miracle at The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Goldcorp Stage. ‘Christmas-ish’ is a thoroughly modern holiday tale, perhaps a bit too modern for some demographics who aren’t up on their tech or video game play. The play begins with…
The Holidays Are Alive With The Sound Of Music
The Arts Club Theatre Company brings Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music to the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage throughout this Holiday season. Opening nearly 60 years to the day of the original Broadway production (opened November 16, 1959), this production of the timeless classic runs until January 5, 2020. For those who only know…
Find the ‘Cost of Living’ at Arts Club
The Arts Club Theatre Company is presenting the Canadian premiere of Martyna Majok’s acclaimed play Cost of Living. Directed by Arts Club Artistic Director Ashlie Corcoran, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cost of Living is on stage until November 3rd, at the Goldcorp Stage. The drama follows the interaction of relationships between four characters; Eddie (Ashley Wright)…
Picks of the Week – September 18, 2019
As we hit the official last week of Summer 2019, we find plenty to keep the entertainment scene heated up in these picks Bard: This are your last days to catch the 30th season of Bard on the Beach before it closes at Vanier Park with mainstage shows Shakespeare in Love (closing tonight) and Taming of the Shrew as…
Picks of the Week – June 26, 2019
It’s already the end of June but brings us to the first long weekend of Summer and all the entertainment that Canada Day brings to the week’s picks. Jazz: The 34th Vancouver International Jazz Festival runs until July 1st with hundred of artists, performances and events, many free, taking place all over downtown Vancouver’s parks, theatres, restaurants and…