Still looking for a Christmas present? The perfect gift for an entertainment lover could be tickets to the world famous, all-male ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (Trocks). Returning to Vancouver, February 1, 2020 at 8pm at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, this performance will showcase the Trocks’ wickedly absurd antics and serious dancing chops — featuring…
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A vibrant line-up of artists are coming to PuSh 2020
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (PuSh) revealed the line-up for 2020 in historic Central Studios, the new home of Club PuSh. The 16th annual edition PuSh runs from January 21 to February 9, 2020 at venues across the Lower Mainland. Featuring 27 works from 24 companies from nine countries — including six world premieres — the festival line-up…
No Lying – Eastvan Panto : Pinocchio, Is A Real Laugh
East Van Panto: Pinocchio brings Theatre Replacement’s beloved panto back to The Cultch York Theatre on Commercial Drive. Until January 5, 2020, tag along as Pinocchio, with help from his friends and family, seeks to become a real boy. For its 7th year, Theatre Replacement brought back playwright Marcus Youssef and director Stephen Drover to…
Picks of the Week – November 6, 2019
Whether you’re someone who starts the Holiday Season as soon as Halloween passes, or not, there’s plenty to see and do in the picks this week! Dumpling: Vancouver Foodster’s Dumpling Fest returns for another year tonight, visiting restaurants from Little Saigon, Chinatown and South Granville areas of Vancouver. Fest: Chutzpah Festival continues to bring theatre, dance, comedy and…
Dance House opens the season with Spirit.
Next week, DanceHouse, opens its 2019/20 season with the Canadian Premier of Spirit, October 25 & 26, at the Vancouver Playhouse. Presented in partnership with Vancouver-based Indigenous dance company, Dancers of Damelahamid, Spirit is from Australia’s acclaimed Bangarra Dance Theatre, a leader in the celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance. Choreographed by Bangarra’s Artistic Director Stephen Page and…
Spooky Action comes to Firehall Arts Centre
Vancouver-based choreographer Lesley Telford brings Spooky Action, her interdisciplinary dance project, to Firehall Arts Centre October 16th to 19th. Though appropriately titled for Halloween season, Spooky Action is actually inspired by Einstein’s theory referring to particles that are so closely linked, they share the same existence, yet they could be an entire universe apart. He called the…
MISCELLANEOUS Productions Presents AWAY with HOME
For two nights only, MISCELLANEOUS Productions, presents their 2018/19 new work, Away with Home at The Scotiabank Dance Centre’s Faris Family Studio Theatre. MISCELLANEOUS Productions is a hip hop theatre boot camp for youth from the community which presents an original theatrical work every two years, tours internationally, as well as giving free peer-run workshops for at-risk…