West Moon Theatre is presenting the award-winning rock musical Next To Normal at Studio 16 Theatre until February 17th. In a unique turn, this production is double cast with two separate casts taking on the challenging musical’s heavy content and numbers. The double cast allows for two interpretations of the characters and brings a different…
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Firehall Arts Centre presents SHIT by Patricia Cornelius
Firehall Arts Centre is now presenting the Canadian debut of Patricia Cornelius’ SHIT. Directed by Firehall Arts Centre’s Artistic Producer Donna Spencer, the profane and provocative production is an in-your-face look at the lives of three women. The trio, played with stunning realism by Yoshié Bancroft, Kayla Deorksen, & Sharon Crandall appear to exist on the…
Topdog/Underdog battle for supremacy at Arts Club
Last night, the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Topdog/Underdog opened at the Arts Club Theatre Company Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre. The two act, two-hander is an intense two hours of rapid fire dialogue and emotions, written by Suzan-Lori Parks, the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, and directed for The Arts…
Midtwenties Theatre Society goes Above The Hospital
Midtwenties Theatre Society and Red Gates Art Society present the new play Above The Hospital, until January 21st at Red Gates Review Stage on Granville Island. The new production is the first written by director Beau Han Bridge, founder of Midtwenties Theatre Society. As with Midtwenties Theatre Society’s debut, This Is Our Youth, Beau Han…
Picks of the Week – November 29, 2017
We’re into the one month countdown to Christmas with more festive flair popping into the picks of the week. Market: The Christmas Market season is in full swing with the Vancouver Christmas Market opening today, running until December 24, at Jack Poole Plaza plus Toque, River District craft fairs as well. Snow: Until January 6th, help Snow White…
Girls! Girls! Girls! from the headlines to the stage
Onstage this week at Havana Theatre on Commercial Drive, Excavation Theatre presents Greg MacArthur’s Girls! Girls! Girls!. Director Jessica Anne Nelson crafts the gritty play into a sometimes uncomfortable, but insightful, look at teen angst and anger. MacArthur wrote the play in the late 90s as a reaction to violent high school stories like the…
This Is Our Youth at Red Gate Revue Stage
This Is Our Youth is the debut production by the fledgling Mid Twenties Theatre Society as well as the directorial debut of its founder Beau Han Bridge. Now playing at the Red Gate Revue Stage on Granville Island, This Is Our Youth is a play by American playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan. Since…