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…
Tag: drama
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…
DOXA Documentary Film Festival Returns
DOXA Documentary Film Festival returns to screens around Vancouver this May 4th to 14th, bringing over a hundred film screenings, panels, workshops and artists talks to cinemas across the city. The 2017 Festival opens with Marie Clements’ documentary musical The Road Forward, a celebration of First Nations history and a portrait of a people who…
Gateway Theatre debuts 2017-18 Season
Richmond’s Gateway Theatre recently pulled back the curtain to reveal their 2017-2018 season line-up. A selection of classics and new works the season’s theme is Reflections in Time as the four mainstage productions are set in different eras of the past. Artistic Director, Jovanni Sy says, “In looking back in time, these plays hold up…
Mom’s The Word 3 – Nest Half Empty at the Arts Club Theatre
The hilarious team of Mom’s The Word returns to The Arts Club Theatre for the threequel – Mom’s The Word 3 – Nest Half Empty. Through the years, we’ve followed the moms, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nicol, Barbara Pollard and Deborah Williams, as they experienced the trials and tribulations of becoming new parents, suffered through…
Refuge – a powerful play at Firehall Arts Centre
Balancing a fair refugee system and public safety are especially topical subjects with the current global debate on immigration. Halagonian Mary Vingoe’s play, Refuge, reminds us that even a country as diverse as Canada has been touched by class, culture and sectarian violence as well as blemishes in our treatment of refugee claimants. A powerful and…