On stage at the Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, until April 2, 2023, Sense and Sensibility by writer Kate Hamill adds a bit of modern perspective to the Jane Austen classic tale of love, marriage, wits and class. Gossip, intrigue, scandal, impropriety are at the forefront of director Rachel Peake’s production, mixed with the…
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My Little Tomato Adds New Flavour to Rom-Coms
Playing until March 19th at The Cultch Historic Theatre, My Little Tomato is a co-production with Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (vAct) and Zee Zee Theatre in association with rice & beans theatre. While the overall premise of My Little Tomato is a boy-meets-boy rom-com, writer Rick Tae and director Cameron Mackenzie along with the two…
The Woman in Black haunts Jericho Arts Centre until March 5th.
The Woman in Black, by Stephen Mallatratt and Dame Susan Hill, takes the stage at Jericho Arts Centre until March 5th. Based upon Dame Susan’s own 1983 gothic horror novel, this Vancouver production is presented by CLASSical ACT Collective, with the support of Famous Artists Limited, directed by and starring Bernard Cuffling with Aidan Wright….
High School is Tough for a Teenage Dick
The Arts Club Theatre Company, in collaboration with Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival and Realwheels Theatre, presents the Vancouver Premiere of Teenage Dick by Mike Lew. Playing until March 5 at the Newmount Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre, Lew’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III shifts the action from the halls of 15th century…
Vancouver Opera’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream awakes
Vancouver Opera continues its season with Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at Queen Elizabeth Theatre for two more performances February 16 and 19. One of Shakespeare’s wildest plays, as adapted by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in 1960 comes to the the stage in a wild opera, directed by Aria Umezawa. After Puck/Robin Goodfellow,…
Friends Get Real in The Cull at The Arts Club
The Arts Club Theatre Company is presenting its latest Silver Commission World Premiere, The Cull by Michele Riml & Michael St. John Smith. At the Granville Island Stage, until February 26th, “find out what happens…when people stop being polite…and start getting real”, no it’s not an old lost episode of MTV’s The Real World, but…
Circa’s Sacre Stuns With Its Contemporary Circus Acrobatics
DanceHouse & The Cultch delivered a New Year gift to the city as they co-presented the Canadian Premiere of Sacre, from Australian Circus Company, Circa. The mesmerizing work of acrobatic dance, inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s seminal production The Rite of Spring is directed by Circa’s Artistic Director and CEO Yaron Lifschitz. For five memorable performances the…