We’re already into the second weekend of February and it’s a long weekend for Family Day on Monday the 10th! Get out and have some Family Fun & Laughs! Broadway: One of the most respected musicals in American Theatre, West Side Story, presented by Broadway Across Canada, plays at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre until Sunday…
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67th Tony Award Winners
Sunday night, June 9, Broadway’s finest gathered at Radio City Music Hall for the 67th Annual Tony Awards presentations. Hosted for the 3rd consecutive year by Neil Patrick Harris the ceremony celebrates the 2012-2013 Broadway season. The show started as usual with an original opening number performed by the host and what appeared to be…
Xanadu: Summer Fun At Arts Club
“A place where nobody dared to go…they call it Xanadu”, or so the lyrics go to the title song to Xanadu, the musical now playing at The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Granville Island Stage. Contrary to the lyrics, every body should go to Xanadu, it’s a fun, camp rolic. I’d say it’s a guilty pleasure…
66th Annual Tony Award Winners
Sunday night, the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League presented the 66th Annual Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, better known as The Tony Awards. Third time host Neil Patrick Harris presided over the evening from the Beacon Theatre in New York City. In addition to awards the evening included performances from some…
Rock Of Ages – Broadway Across Canada
Last night the audience at The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts experienced some time travel as they were transported back to a time when hair was huge, pants were skin tight, shoulder pads were wide and the music was glam! The late 1980’s is the era and LA’s famous Sunset Strip is the setting…
CATS – Broadway Across Canada
Broadway Across Canada’s production of CATS is now playing at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre until Sunday April 15th. Based on the T.S. Eliot book of poems “Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats”, the Olivier and Tony Award winning musical tells the story of the Jellicle tribe of Cats (song: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats) as…
Blood Brothers – Arts Club Theatre
Now playing at The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Granville Island Stage, Blood Brothers is a tale of nature vs nurture told in a musical retelling of the Alexandre Dumas tale, The Corsican Brothers. Set initially in the working class industrial slums of 1960’s Liverpool the first act centers around single-mother of 7, Mrs Johnstone who,…