Miss getting your fix of Vancouver Fringe Festival shows? It’ll be awhile before the 2015 festival returns to the city. For the second year running, Vancouver Fringe Festival presents year-round » Read More
THEATER
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December 22, 2014
The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary, Elder Price, is an enthusiastic go-getter » Read More
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December 18, 2014
Mountains of crumpled paper showing hours of writer’s block, a sparsely-furnished city apartment containing a bed, dingy desk and chair, and lyrics to Leonard Cohen songs scribbled on the 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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December 8, 2014
The holiday season is the perfect time for a play that features an angel showing a compassionate, but despairing and desperate man what life would have been like if he » Read More
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December 8, 2014
Gateway Theatre’s romantic musical offering of the holiday season is a delightful triumph. Crazy for You is crammed with exuberant dance numbers, addictive show tunes, rigorous choreography, and razor-sharp dialogue. The intensity » Read More
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December 4, 2014
We could all use an extra dose of humour during the mad rush of the holidays, and we think we’ve found the perfect indulgence: A Twisted Christmas Carol! Last night’s » Read More
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December 2, 2014
You only get THREE wishes! What would you wish for? Vancouver’s Metro Theatre marks its 487th production by presenting their annual pantomime. This year, it’s the classic tale of Aladdin. » Read More
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November 25, 2014
Banned for over half a century, Samuel Beckett’s entertaining and deeply affecting Irish play, All That Fall, remained unseen by audiences. At long last, that ban has been lifted, granting theater » Read More
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November 20, 2014
The fine cast of Never You Mind have taken the grandiose task of mounting Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit, a 1944 existentialist play about three damned souls stuck in Hell together. » Read More
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November 18, 2014
In David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow, hugely bankable star Doug Brown agrees to appear in a sure-fire commercial hit, and film producers Bobby Gould (Craig Erickson) and Charlie Fox (Aaron Craven) are » Read More
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November 17, 2014
First, I must confess, I did not enjoy The Good Person of Setzuan, by German playwright Bertolt Brecht. When I go to theatre, I want to be immersed in the story, » Read More
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November 13, 2014
For much of the late sixties to early 1980’s, American author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was de rigueur reading for anyone wishing to be considered hip. Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle (1963) established » Read More
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November 13, 2014
The year is 2136. An embedded generation is getting off on downloading ‘feelies’ through their sensory implants and hardware. Enter one Ginger 5000, a souped-up, sexy redhead who’s employed as » Read More
