American Idiot, Green Day’s award-winning, Broadway rock musical comes to Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver presented by local production company URP. Winner of two Tony Awards and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, American Idiot is the story of three boyhood friends, each searching for meaning in a post 9/11, Trumpian suburbia, discovering love,…
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Find the ‘Cost of Living’ at Arts Club
The Arts Club Theatre Company is presenting the Canadian premiere of Martyna Majok’s acclaimed play Cost of Living. Directed by Arts Club Artistic Director Ashlie Corcoran, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cost of Living is on stage until November 3rd, at the Goldcorp Stage. The drama follows the interaction of relationships between four characters; Eddie (Ashley Wright)…
Gateway Theatre season opens with China Doll
Gateway Theatre opened its 35th Season with a production of Marjorie Chan’s China Doll. Ms Chan directs and revisits her 2004 play, inspired by Ibsen’s The Dollhouse, to bring it to the Gateway stage. A period drama, telling the story of Su-Ling’s (Jennifer Tong) early life as she grows from 5 to 16 years. Starting…
The Shipment opens Firehall Art Centre’s Season
The Firehall Art Centre kicked off its 37th season with Speakeasy Theatre’s production of the provocative work The Shipment by Young Jean Lee. The play takes a look at black cultural stereotypes and makes us examine our ingrained assumptions and perceptions of race. Starting off, the first half of the show firmly places the 5…
MISCELLANEOUS Productions Presents AWAY with HOME
For two nights only, MISCELLANEOUS Productions, presents their 2018/19 new work, Away with Home at The Scotiabank Dance Centre’s Faris Family Studio Theatre. MISCELLANEOUS Productions is a hip hop theatre boot camp for youth from the community which presents an original theatrical work every two years, tours internationally, as well as giving free peer-run workshops for at-risk…
Presentation House Theatre presents launches 2019/20 season
North Vancouver’s Presentation House Theatre (PHT) launches its 2019/20 season October 8th. Before the season begins visit Presentation House Theatre this weekend, for Nchem?u?s Day on September 21st. The annual free community event welcomes everyone to join in the world’s largest Slahal “Bone Game”, an ancient traditional game of the Coast Salish territory. Presented in…
The Shipment Opens The Firehall Arts Centre Season.
The Firehall Arts Centre launches its 37th anniversary season with SpeakEasy Theatre’s powerful and provocative comedy, The Shipment, opening Wednesday, September 25th. The Shipment is written by award-winning Korean-American playwright Young Jean Lee. The play is a subversive modern minstrel show about Black identity meant to wake the world to the ridiculous narratives in dominant…