Vancouver’s vibrant theatre scene is fortunate to be the birthplace of many marvelous productions. The Canadian premier of Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook is sure to provide theatre goers with an evening » Read More
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November 3, 2014
You needn’t be an opera fan to enjoy the Vancouver Opera’s ground-breaking, multimedia tour de force that is Stickboy. I greatly enjoyed this show, focusing on daily bullying and its effect » Read More
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October 27, 2014
American playwright Edward Albee wrote Three Tall Women in the 1990’s, winning a 1994 Pulitzer prize for Drama (his third), among other awards. According to Albee, the play, divided into » Read More
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October 14, 2014
A drought has gripped the town where H.C. Curry, sons Noah and Jim, and daughter Lizzie reside. Threatened with financial ruin, Curry is nonetheless more worried about his daughter’s dry spell » Read More
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October 6, 2014
It is not for nothing that Langara College’s Studio 58 theatre training program has earned a reputation for pushing the envelope when it comes to moving the Vancouver theatre scene » 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 29, 2014
In Joel Ivany’s directorial debut for Vancouver Opera, this ninth production of Carmen was initially produced at the premiere of Vancouver Opera in 1960. A joint endeavor of Toronto, Montreal, » Read More
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August 25, 2014
Perhaps you’ve never experienced a stroke and have kinda wondered what it’s like and what you have to look forward to if you do. If so, you’ll want to make » Read More
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July 25, 2014
In These Three Things, The Page Theatre and Standing Room Only (SRO) have co-jointly produced three distinct one-act plays connected by themes of love and relationships, leavened by a lot » Read More
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July 16, 2014
The staging of Cymbeline at this year’s Bard on the Beach squares out the themes of “daughters and redemption”. While A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cymbeline center around defiant daughters, » Read More
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July 7, 2014
Pulitzer finalist playwright Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries peers into the lives of two people bonded together by a reciprocal need for unnecessary misery. An undercurrent of romance runs through their » Read More
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June 30, 2014
Illusions and conspiracies continue at the opening night of The Tempest, Bard on the Beach’s second remounted play of its celebrated 25th season. Comparable to Bard’s delightfully imaginative A Midsummer » Read More
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June 23, 2014
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies about love, propriety, and supernatural intervention. The Duke of Athens will wed the Amazon Queen in four days. Within that span, » Read More
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May 29, 2014
Let me be the first to say it: The Out Vigil should have a lock on two nominations for the 2015 Jessie awards. Well-known and acclaimed performer (but first time » Read More
