Move over Shakespeare, Aristophanes is in the house! The father of English drama is upstaged by the father of comedy in Bard on the Beach’s adaptation of the Greek play » Read More
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July 13, 2018
Ever since Meg Roe made her directorial debut at Bard on the Beach’s 2014 production of The Tempest, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the return of her sui generis stamp on » Read More
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June 25, 2018
Two of jolly ol’ England’s best exports have finally been united in a raucous affair! William Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy As You Like It intersects Beatlemania in Bard on the Beach’s » Read More
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June 22, 2018
I do confess to having watched John Carney’s Sing Street at least a dozen times (thank you, Netflix), thus the bar was set high for me with a theater adaptation » Read More
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June 20, 2018
Bard on the Beach returns for its 29th year with Shakespeare’s emotionally charged The Tragedy of Macbeth as its powerful season opener. The shocking plot of the darkly intense “Scottish » Read More
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May 21, 2018
What could be more idyllic than marrying your love on a small Greek island? In The Arts Club Theatre’s latest production of Mamma Mia!, the story begins with the bride » Read More
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April 5, 2018
The Arts Club Theatre’s Me and You is the third world premiere and fifth new Canadian work of the current season. From childhood until old age, Liz and Lou are » Read More
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April 3, 2018
Come spend American Thanksgiving with the Blakes—the inclusive feel of director Amiel Gladstone’s staging of The Humans, a 2016 Tony Award-winning play by Stephen Karam. The playwright could have chosen » Read More
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March 2, 2018
Little Miss Glitz hits Vancouver’s Performance Works stage this month with a shocking, heartwarming and uncompromisingly funny take on the world of child beauty pageants. This original, locally-developed musical follows » Read More
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February 7, 2018
Broadway Across Canada’s production of Motown the Musical opened to an enthusiastic crowd last night at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The house was packed on a rainy Tuesday to watch » Read More
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February 4, 2018
The Firehall Arts Centre will bring its award-winning show, Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, back to the stage from March 17 to April 21 in celebration of the » Read More
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February 1, 2018
Take four actors with equally made-for-theatre-egos, place them in a production soon to open in an intimate Toronto playhouse in the late 70’s, watch them endure all manners of backstage » Read More
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January 29, 2018
How much are we masters of our own destinies? How are choices doomed by prejudice? And how do they change within a group, community or family? Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks forces » Read More
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January 18, 2018
Bard on the Beach just unveiled a fresh new visual brand, inspired by both its legendary Shakespearean roots and the way the Vancouver theatre organization is seen and valued by » Read More
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January 10, 2018
The traditional showbiz musical is turned on its head in Merrily We Roll Along, a thrilling and compelling Broadway fable about friendship, compromise and the high price of success. Merrily » Read More
