The Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC) together with Vancouver’s Goh Ballet presents Select Works/Mustard Seed, a world premiere collaboration as part of the 2014 Vancouver International Dance Festival. The production’s » Read More
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March 5, 2013
Now here’s something you don’t get to see every day in the theatre: a life-size puppet horse being manipulated by three puppeteers, complete with movement, sounds, and a mastery of » Read More
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March 5, 2013
The Borodin Quartet is considered one of the longest running chamber music ensembles in the world. On April 9, the Quartet will return to Vancouver with a program of Russian » Read More
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February 7, 2013
Britain’s leading quartet, the Endellion String Quartet, will return to Vancouver after 14 years in a highly anticipated performance on Tuesday evening, February 26. This special evening forms part of » Read More
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February 24, 2012
I’d seen the 1939 film years back, but had yet to see a stage production of Hunchback. Although Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” has been re-adapted » Read More
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December 5, 2011
La Cage aux Folles, a “show about a show”, is based on both a book by Harvey Fierstein and a 1973 play by Jean-Poiret. You may be more familiar with » Read More
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November 22, 2011
Chile will be the featured wine at the upcoming 33rd annual Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival (February 27 to March 4, 2012). Vancouver will be able to sample from 35 » Read More
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October 24, 2011
Tosca Café. Brings back memories of my seven year stint living in San Francisco. If only to have been a fly on the wall of the infamous North Beach Café » Read More
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April 20, 2011
“Is this a dagger I see before me? OR A PIZZA?” And now for something just a tad offbeat: The Simpsons do Macbeth in MacHomer, a one man show by » Read More
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April 5, 2011
I got a kick out of The Trespassers. Award-winning playwright Morris Panych paints a light-hearted, meaningful look into the relationship between a boy (acted brilliantly by Amitai Marmorstein) and his » Read More
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March 24, 2011
Max Reimer, Artistic Managing Director of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, announced the company’s 49th season line-up of shows yesterday. What a variety and wealth of productions in store for Vancouver! » Read More
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February 18, 2011
Last night, I attended the opening of Death of a Salesman at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre. My only previous introduction to this story had been through Arthur Miller’s book. The » Read More