Isobel, a nine-year old Portuguese girl, roams through her neighbourhood lost and frightened. She observes a series of interconnected episodes that give graphic glimpses into the desperate and unsettled lives of the strangers » Read More
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April 27, 2017
Vancouver’s Pacific Theatre closes its 2016-2017 season with John Patrick Shanley’s latest work, Outside Mullingar, a charming story of Ireland and the prickly, brooding people who have lived off its » Read More
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March 15, 2017
Pacific Theatre is proud to present Valley Song by Athol Fugard (originally produced by The Gateway Theatre). When a nation undergoes sweeping reform, it’s not just policy that has to » Read More
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November 8, 2016
Pacific Theatre jumps into the holiday season with a brand new commissioned work by Lucia Frangione: Holy Mo! A Christmas Show!. Hilarious and outlandish, Holy Mo! A Christmas Show! tells » Read More
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September 7, 2016
Vancouver’s Pacific Theatre will launch its 2016-2017 season by bringing local gang life to the stage in Cara Norrish’s A Good Way Out. Tough and uncompromising, this world premiere follows » Read More
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February 22, 2016
Bright Blue Future, a play set in Victoria, BC during 2008’s economic downturn, begins at a nightclub with four twenty-somethings partying and posing. Gay character Carston (Dmitry Chepovetsky) name drops » Read More
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January 19, 2015
As Eastern European violin music begins to play, the Librarian (Nathan Schmidt) makes his entry onto the intimate Pacific Theatre stage for Rosebud Theatre’s guest production of Glen Berger’s Underneath » Read More
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December 30, 2014
There’s never a dull moment in Vancouver’s theater world, with a plethora of comedy, drama, musicals, and small productions around town. Again this year, I’ve rounded up our 10 favourites » 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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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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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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May 22, 2014
Pacific Theatre’s remount of Lucia Frangione’s Espresso begins with an empty stage containing two suspended windows hung at an angle facing each other. Two stage hands come out and in » Read More
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May 21, 2014
You’ve not yet seen a love story quite like this. Stone’s Throw Productions’ Gruesome Playground Injuries follows the decades-spanning relationship of an accident-prone daredevil and a corrosive masochist who navigate » Read More
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March 24, 2014
On the heels of its exciting 30th anniversary season, Pacific Theatre is thrilled to announce what just might be its most diverse season yet. Opening with the heartfelt fable The Rainmaker, Pacific Theatre’s » Read More
