From the opening notes of the overture to the final sing-along curtain call, Mamma Mia now play at The Arts Club Theatre Company Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, will have you dancing in your seat. The feel-good jukebox musical inspired by the hit music of Abba is composed by Abba’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and…
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The Cultch reveals its 45th Anniversary Season
The Cultch has recently announced its 45th anniversary season, with Executive Director Heather Redfern programming a 2018-19 season full of local premieres, international hits, and returning favourites. “The Cultch is a place that people come to for community: to have their minds stimulated, to be challenged, to laugh, to discover,” says Redfern. “The Cultch is for…
Once On This Island The Musical on Granville Island
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…
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…