The second weekend of the year already let’s see what January is adding to our picks of the week! Lights: Still glowing through the winter nights, the illuminations at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park’s Canyon Lights bringing wonder to the woodland park trails and bridge, continuing until January 21, 2024 Country: Metro Theatre starts the year off with…
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Always…Patsy Cline Shares Music & Friendship, at Metro Theatre
Always…Patsy Cline by Ted Swindley, onstage at Metro Theatre until January 14th, is a heartwarming musical celebration of friendship and music. Presented with First Impressions Theatre which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary by taking its favourite productions on the road. Based on true events, Always…Patsy Cline tells the story through the eyes of Louise Seger, a fan…
Picks of the Week – January 3, 2024
A New Year, and we’ve got a (mostly) new list of great, entertaining picks of the week to start 2024! Beauty: This is your last few days to catch the hilarious antics of East Van Panto Beauty & the Beast at The Cultch York Theatre before it closes January 7th Canyon: Illuminations take new heights at Capilano…
Picks of the Week – December 27, 2023
We’ve hit the final picks of the week for 2023, and with it we find a weekend still full of festive fun. Moms: You have until December 31st to see the brilliant Mom’s The Word Collective return to The Arts Club Granville Island Stage with a remount of their heartwarming and hilarious hit Mom’s The Word: Talking…
Picks of the Week – December 20, 2023
’twas the week before Christmas and all through the city, entertainment was brewing with plenty to see Lights: Find some festive feels as you brighten up the longest nights of the year with any of the many Christmas and Holiday illuminations around Metro Vancouver like – Bright Nights, Van Dusen Festival of Lights, Heritage Christmas, Martini Town…
The Arts Umbrella Mixed Nuts Brings a Nutcracker Mash-up To Stage
This past weekend, Arts Umbrella School of Dance presented its annual student showcase, Mixed Nuts, at the Vancouver Playhouse. Adding a contemporary twist to Tchaikovsky’s timeless classic, The Nutcracker, the Mixed Nuts show gets an update each year, as past graduating classes make way for new Grad, Senior, Apprentice, Professional Training and Pre-Elementary Dance Companies. With local choreographers and the…
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella Dances On To The Gateway Theatre Stage
In their own little corner of Richmond, Gateway Theatre brings the Tony Award-winning Broadway Musical Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella to the stage. First written and composed for a 1957 TV adaptation starring Julie Andrews, the stage version, with an updated 2013 book by Douglas Carter Beane, maintains the timeless music of Richard Rodgers and lyrics…