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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September 19, 2014
The Arts Club Theatre opened its 51st season this week with Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles. A finalist in last year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this one-act, 95-minute play binds a » 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
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October 10, 2013
A live/work brick-walled studio stage set in the present provides the backdrop to the Arts Club Theatre’s production of David Ives’ Venus in Fur. As the play begins, and the » Read More
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September 24, 2013
Spirited Halley Armstrong (Matreya Scarrwener) is a 12-year-old Pathfinder, eager to earn all of her badges. When she volunteers to read stories to a young soldier (Mik Byskov) injured in » Read More
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September 11, 2013
Vanda, a young actress (Lindsey Angell), wants to land the lead in the new play Venus in Fur. During her sexually charged audition for Thomas (Vincent Gale), the play’s demanding writer-director, » Read More
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March 21, 2013
2 Pianos 4 Hands is a comedic look at two pianists thrown into a variety of situations, some quite hilarious, others close to any budding pianist’s heart. Last night, I » Read More
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March 4, 2013
2 Pianos 4 Hands has become one of Canada’s most successful theatrical productions. After being cheered by 2,000,000 people in more than 5,000 performances worldwide, 2 Pianos 4 Hands returns » Read More
