From Broadway to Granville Island, Once On This Island is now playing at Red Gate Review Stage. The award winning musical, currently in a revival on Broadway, is making its Vancouver debut with Fabulist Theatre. With book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and, music by Stephen Flaherty, Once On This Island is based on Rosa Guy’s 1985 novel My…
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A return to Chelsea Hotel : The Songs Of Leonard Cohen
As the Firehall Arts Centre celebrates its 35th Anniversary, it brings back one of its most popular shows, Chelsea Hotel : The Songs Of Leonard Cohen. The musical follows a writer who has checked into the famed Chelsea Hotel seeking inspiration and the words to his next prose. As he reminisces about his past romances…
Fabulist Theatre brings Once On This Island to Vancouver
Fabulist Theatre, a local company known for diverse casting of its shows, is bringing Once On This Island to Vancouver this Spring. This is the first Vancouver production of Once On This Island, a revival is currently playing on Broadway at Circle In The Square Theatre. Based on the 1985 novel “My Love, My Love;…
Fun Home grows up on The Arts Club stage
The 2015 Tony Award winning Best Musical, Fun Home makes its Canadian debut on The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Granville Island stage. Based on the graphic autobiography by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, and directed by Lois Anderson, Fun Home features the adult Alison (Sara-Jeanne Hosie) trying to overcome a bout of writer’s block. While looking back…
Next To Normal tackles mental illness
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…
Picks of the Week – February 7, 2018
These picks of the week find us moving into our first long weekend of 2018 and the Valentine and Lunar New Year season. Taste: Vancouver Foodster’s Tasting Plates explores Mount Pleasant along Main Street, tonight February 7th Musical: Learn to bend and snap as Align Entertainment brings the award winning, bubbly Legally Blonde the Musical to…
Legally Blonde brings Elle Woods to Michael J Fox Theatre
Oh My Gawd, You Guys! Align Entertainment is bringing the award winning Legally Blonde the Musical to Michael J Fox Theatre in Burnaby, February 2 – 17, 2018. Perfectly coordinated for Valentine’s Day, pretty in pink Elle Woods and her dog Bruiser show you can’t judge a book by its cover, then she gets ‘serious’…