One of the more hotly anticipated PNE Summer Night Concerts was the West Coast return of Our Lady Peace. With the great mix of retro and current artists playing this year on the WestJet Concert Stage at the PNE, Our Lady Peace falls somewhere in between. Their heyday and most people remember their hits from…
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PNE 2012 Summer Nights Concert Line-Up
Coming on the heals of a fun, successful and sunny Summer Playland Festival, the Pacific National Exhibition unveiled a great line up for its Summer Night Concert series. PNE Summer Night Concerts have become one of the most popular concert series in the city, with a wildly diverse range of artists, an eclectic mix…
Summer Playland Festival is underway!
It was a great turn out for day one of Summer Playland Festival with Dragonette, Carly Rae Jespsen, Dirty Radio, Kaylee Johnston, Neverest and Marianas Trench taking the two stages – PNE Amphitheatre and Park Stage. Between the sets the Playland rides are open and SPF ticket holders are taking advantage of park access,included with…
Bard On The Beach – Macbeth
Western Canada’s largest Shakespeare Festival, now in its 23rd season, presents four rotating shows this season; Macbeth, Taming Of The Shrew, Merry Wives Of Windsor and King John. Ashamedly, I’ve never attended Bard On The Beach before, so I remedied that recently with a performance of Macbeth. Although the ground was wet and soggy from…
What’s On Wednesday – April 26 – 29, 2012
Wrapping up April…will showers bring May flowers? Ongoing Activities: – at Vancouver Art Gallery : Offsite on West Georgia at the Shangri-la Hotel courtyard, until Sept 16th, is a large scale wooden tableau by Kota Ezawa – within the Vancouver Art Gallery, An Autobiography of our Collection shows a behind the scenes look at how…
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,…
Hairspray – The Big Fat Musical
Telling a story of race relations in 1960’s Baltimore as played out through the story of a ‘pleasantly plump’ girl’s struggle for acceptance in high school and as a dancer on the American Bandstand-esque, “Corny Collins Show”. Jennie Neumann shines as teen, Tracy Turnblad as we follow her quest for fame, love, acceptance and equality. …