Remember when we were children in math class and wondered how math would relate to the real world? Long Division, is a play that seeks to show us how math works its way into every aspect of our lives. From April 26th to 30th, Pi Theatre presents a remount of Peter Dickinson’s Long Division, at…
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Documenting The Watershed at Gateway Theatre
Now on stage at the Gateway Theatre in Richmond, The Watershed is an interesting and topical piece of documentary theatre. Originally commissioned for the Arts and Culture program of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, Annabel Soutar’s The Watershed followers her and her family on an exploration of the Nation’s precarious fresh water supply. Although…
Refuge – a powerful play at Firehall Arts Centre
Balancing a fair refugee system and public safety are especially topical subjects with the current global debate on immigration. Halagonian Mary Vingoe’s play, Refuge, reminds us that even a country as diverse as Canada has been touched by class, culture and sectarian violence as well as blemishes in our treatment of refugee claimants. A powerful and…
Disney’s The Little Mermaid at Michael J Fox Theatre
There’s five more chances to see Disney’s The Little Mermaid, presented by Align Entertainment. The Disney classic comes to life onstage at Burnaby’s Michael J Fox Theatre until February 18th. The beloved story as interpreted by Doug Wright, and the classic soundtrack from Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, along with new lyrics from Glenn Slater, keeps…
Picks of the Week – January 18, 2017
Mid-January and the city is bustling with arts, entertainment and food for our picks of the week; Push: The 2017 PuSh Festival is underway, filling the city’s venues with cutting edge performing arts from around the globe Stage: The Nether, delves into the darkness of the internet at Firehall Arts Centre from January 18 –…
PuSh Festival Opening Night 2017
Last night, the 2017 PuSh Festival opened at the Vancouver Playhouse with Macbeth, a co-presentation with Vancouver Opera and Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre. As adapted by the Third World Bunfight, this edition of Macbeth brings Verdi’s opera to a daring new interpretation set in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bringing The Scottish Play into modern…
And Bella Sang With Us, onstage at Firehall Arts Centre
A bit of Vancouver history comes to life as “And Bella Sang With Us” by Sally Stubbs, takes the stage at the Firehall Arts Centre until January 14th “And Bella Sang With Us” imagines what life was like for Vancouver’s first female police constables. In 1912, L.D. Harris and Minnie Miller made Vancouver the first city in…