Happy May Day! Whether you’re dancing around the Maypole or celebrating worker and labour movements to celebrate the start of the month, there’s plenty to do to keep you entertained this week. Youth: Some Assembly Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of I Know Your Secret written & directed by Valerie Methot in collaboration with…
Vancouver Opera’s Carmen Closes The Season
Vancouver Opera (VO) closed out its successful 2023-2024 season with an opulent production of Georges Bizet’s most beloved opera, Carmen. From the familiar opening strains of the overture, conducted by Leslie Dala and curtain rising on the beautifully atmospheric set its easy to see why Bizet’s Carmen has become the fasted selling production in Vancouver…
Moonlight and Magnolias Bloom at Metro Theatre
Until May 18, Moonlight and Magnolias by Ron Hutchison at Metro Theatre takes us behind the scenes in the creation of the epic film, Gone With The Wind. It’s 1939 and Hollywood producer David O. Selznick (played by J.D. Dueckman) is making his epic Gone With The Wind, but he has a problem, he’s fired…
Firehall Arts Centre Brings Fujiwara Dance Inventions’ Eunoia To The Stage.
The Firehall Arts Centre is Fujiwara Dance Inventions’ dance-theatre production, Eunoia to the stage from Wednesday, May 8 to Saturday, May 11. Adapted from Christian Bök’s award-winning book of poetry, Eunoia, a conceptual book written in the form of a lipogram where each of its five chapters is constrained to the use of one vowel….
ahmm (Asian Heritage Month at Morrow) Offers a Month of Intimate Events
Asian Heritage Month runs May 1-31, bringing a host of activities around the city. Odd Meridian Arts’ 2nd ahmm (Asian Heritage Month at Morrow) festival makes its mark with a series of intimate events at Odd Meridian’s cultural space, Morrow, 910 Richards Street. ahmm invites rupture, nurture, defiance and bows in deep reverence, to all…
Picks of the Week – April 24, 2024
Moving into to the final weekend of April, the entertainment keeps springing up throughout the picks of the week… Sexy: Vancouver playwright Michele Riml’s Sexy Laundry returns, 20 years after its debut, to the Arts Club Theatre Granville Island stage until May 12th Writer: Tonight, Vancouver Public Library-Central Branch hosts a Vancouver Writer’s Festival event Incite: A…
The Cultch Announces Its 2024/25 Season
Yesterday, The Cultch announced its 2024/2025 season, full of must-see theatre, dance, circus, puppetry, and comedy. For its 51st season of programming, The Cultch continues its legacy of bringing Vancouver the best and most cutting-edge works from local, national, and international artists. Groundbreaking spectacles, shows that tackle big questions, and plays that spark the full…