Arts Club Theatre audiences were treated to Tomson Highway’s The (Post) Mistress, the second Arts Club production in the newly-opened Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre. The space has » Read More
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April 13, 2015
Vancouver’s Art’s Club Theatre has teamed up with Calgary’s Vertigo Theatre to present a Raymond Chandler classic, Farewell My Lovely. Considered a prototypical example of “hard boiled” fiction, Chandler “cannibalized” (a » Read More
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March 27, 2015
It is such a pleasure to attend a performance where every element-writing, acting, direction, technical aspects-come together in a consummately first-class production. Such is the Arts Club Theatre’s production of » Read More
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February 23, 2015
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. His name alone represents ideals of peace and perseverance against oppression. The achievements that canonized him as a legend and the rousing speeches that inspired millions were » Read More
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January 22, 2015
Is free will just an illusion? Glaswegian Rob Drummond has a special show lined up for this year’s PuSh Festival. Bullet Catch, now on at the Arts Club Revue Stage, » Read More
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December 11, 2014
Returning to the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage this holiday season is the colourful, popular classic Mary Poppins. A remounted Arts Club Theatre production from last year, the cast is back » Read More
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October 9, 2014
Based on writer and performer Carmen Aguirre’s remarkable life, Blue Box is a story of terror and romance that takes you from the Chilean resistance movement during Pinochet’s dictatorship to » Read More
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October 3, 2014
Educating Rita’s themes are well known both through the stage comedy and in the 1983 film starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters, explored in numerous recreations. For those not familiar » Read More
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June 26, 2014
Red Rock Diner is a fun, 1950’s slice-of-life musical set in Vancouver, paying homage to one of the country’s finest DJs, Red Robinson. It’s a fun, fitting cap to the » Read More
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April 14, 2014
With the Arts Club Theatre’s golden anniversary celebration still in full swing, Western Canada’s largest not-for-profit theatre company begins to look ahead at the next 50 years with yesterday’s announcement » Read More
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February 20, 2014
Driving Miss Daisy is the tale of an elderly Southern Jewish woman and her chauffeur, spanning a 25-year friendship. The two characters are brought together by Daisy Werthan’s son, Boolie, » Read More
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December 5, 2013
As It’s Snowing on Saltspring opens, the Granville Island Stage reveals a homey cottage setting, presumably on Salt Spring Island. A channel-flipping, super-lazy Bill Bannister (Andrew McNee) is ensconced on » Read More
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October 24, 2013
Arguably the only good thing that came out of the Canadian misadventure in Afghanistan is the grist it has provided to playwrights’ mills. Broken bodies and scarred psyche often make » Read More