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
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September 5, 2017
In case you’ve not yet heard about Georgian London’s most notorious resident, Samuel Foote, Ian Kelly’s play, Mr. Foote’s Other Leg, will bring you up to speed, now playing at » Read More
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October 11, 2016
As Remembrance Day approaches, this is an opportune time to revive Terrence Rattigan’s tale of wartime bravery, Flare Path, now on at Jericho Arts Centre. Set in 1942, the terror, » Read More
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November 11, 2015
United Players presents People, a fairly recent work by acclaimed English playwright Alan Bennett. Best known for the biographical Madness of King George III and the sarcastic revue Beyond the » Read More
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May 4, 2015
Vancouver-based Fighting Chance Productions (FCP) lavishes comical touches on composer Stephen Sondheim and book author James Lapine’s collaborative musical Into the Woods, now on at the Jericho Arts Centre. While » Read More
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United Players Take on an Abridged Version of Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop at Jericho Arts Centre
April 1, 2014
The Old Curiosity Shop was originally published by Dickens as a weekly serial in 73 installments before it was compiled into a best-selling novel. Eager readers circa 1840 languished in anticipation » Read More
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March 13, 2014
The Old Curiosity Shop is one of the best-selling novels of all time and has been given a gripping adaptation by Simon Webb for the upcoming United Players’ production at Jericho » Read More
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January 27, 2014
Last weekend, I attended the United Players of Vancouver’s take on the The Pitmen Painters, Lee Hall’s thought-provoking, historical play about the barrier transcendence of art on ordinary lives. The » Read More
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January 6, 2014
Having just witnessed Vital Spark Theatre’s Rebel Women, created and directed by Joan Bryans, I’m thinking any student of history would have been able to predict the power of a » Read More
