In series at The Cinematheque, vintage home-movie glow of Kyuka: Before Summer’s End and hallucinatory shades of Harvest reveal tension and crisis beneath domestic and communal surfaces

Award-winning artists reclaim Arctic sounds with soaring vocals

With warped sitcom rhythms, Caroline Bélisle’s new play brings together two old friends to contend with contemporary ambivalence about bringing children into the world

Diane Kurys’s gossipy, subtly performed biopic portrays the last years of a legendary relationship rife with destructive compulsions

Although from different points on the map, pianist Omar Sosa, kora player Seckou Keita, and percussionist Gustavo Ovalles realized through improvisation that they were attuned to one another

The piece by Vision Impure, called being, comes to KW Studios courtesy of Kokoro Dance Theatre Society

Drawing major buzz for the way it plays with genre, the story of a misguided superfan boasts maximalist visual touches, hits of dark humour, and a considerable amount of heart

The Dance Centre and Vancouver International Dance Festival coproduction concludes a triptych spanning over 15 years

Internationally acclaimed Hindustani classical vocalist is joined by harmonium player Mohan Bhide and tabla player Sunny Matharu

Steven Isserlis, James Ehnes, and Augustin Hadelich among the soloists hitting the concert stage

Eighty shows in all, as Italy’s Teatro Telaio sets up an ARCHIPELAGO installation, plus pow-wow, hip-hop, and massive puppets

At a concert called A Look to the Future, the piece shares a program with works by John Rutter, Jocelyn Morlock, and Tchaikovsky

Award-winning play by Susanna Fournier offers an unsettling, witty update of fairy-tale themes as old as Pinocchio and the Pied Piper

Provocative solo show follows a woman who’s focused on fixing the lack of diversity in the serial-killer space

Vancouver-based Tristin Greyeyes finds inspiration in her grandmother’s story in documentary at GEMFest

France is in the spotlight at this year’s event, which features a weekend-long tasting event at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Harmonizing through the decades, Vancouver choir is set to premiere six new arrangements

In the Theatre Conspiracy production copresented by Touchstone Theatre, a South Asian man finds self-expression through dance

Director Mindy Parfitt finds inspiration with local implications in the darkness, wit, and honesty of Duncan Macmillan’s acclaimed play

In the endearing new Metro Theatre production, a five-sister team of performers creates an exceptionally strong and funny ensemble

Arts Club production centres a married couple that recounts the good, the bad, and the ugly of spending 50 years together

Contemporary-art-like 27’52’”makes elaborate play with shadows and time, while Frontier reveals new narrative and thematic complexity

The Nova Scotian singer-songwriter is touring with a new multimedia show, Cradled by the Waves

New Works copresents Isak Enquist's genre-defying fusion of martial arts and contemporary dance influences

Acclaimed Montreal singer and songwriter intertwines healing experiences in nature and musical history to reach toward the light

Care of Théâtre la Seizième, the work examines how female friendships must adapt to the pressure of raising a new life

Based on the true story that inspired Beauty and the Beast, play centres Catherine de Medici and the man who awakens her wild side

Next season includes high-camp spoof Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Tracey Power’s premiere The Elvis Christmas Comeback Special, and the newly named Lindsay Family Stage

Views and feats to inspire, from a Women Mountaineers program at The Cinematheque to the Everest tales of adventure filmmaker Elia Saikaly

At the Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau and star Malia Baker confront anxiety and mortality in the deep freeze of the Prairies