The Arts Club Theatre Company closes out its 51st season with a barnburner revival of Les Misérables (colloquially known as Les Miz or Les Mis), the multi-award winning Alain Boublil » Read More
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July 2, 2015
Although this year’s shows at Bard on the Beach have taken new, creative spins with the invasion of Steampunk and Chicago jazz, the staging of King Lear holds steadfast to » Read More
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June 29, 2015
A playful party ambiance greets audiences inside the Howard Family Stage at Bard on the Beach for the opening night of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Actors in exquisite period costumes of sparkling » 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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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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February 12, 2015
I love mobile technology. I love how I can stay connected to everything and everyone without actually having to be tethered to anything or anyplace. Like most active people, I take » Read More
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February 11, 2015
It’s always a pleasure to attend theatre performances at Studio 58, the professional training program at Langara College. The current Studio 58 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s legendary musical Oklahoma! » 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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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 10, 2014
If you were asked to name a classic Christmas-time story, what comes to mind? Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol or Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life? Ever heard of Illatszertár (translated as » Read More
