At The Cultch, The Search Party play’s strong performances, dry wit, and inventive staging capture the disorientation of addiction and the stories we tell ourselves about it

Nettie Wild’s projected and VR-headset works include a mesmerizing three-channel ode to herring migration, the salmon-run-themed Uninterrupted, and “moving paintings”

Story follows the passionate affair between penniless playwright Will and beautiful young woman Viola de Lesseps

Cyborg teenagers struggle with the same fears about technology that their human counterparts do in this visually spare, idea-charged production by UBC Theatre

In a DanceHouse presentation, Guillaume Côté and Robert Lepage stage their tightly paced adaptation of Shakespeare’s story

Milestone season features expanded celebrations, new traditions, and citywide gatherings under pink canopies

Based on an early Agatha Christie story, the play focuses on a woman’s impulsive marriage to a charming mystery man

Toronto-based artist is known for her prowess as a saxophonist and creative music collaborations

Composer and conductor Steve Hackman has no fear of crossing stylistic boundaries

At a July 20 concert, faculty lead Mark Vuorinen directs Where Wildness Lives by renowned B.C. composer Imant Raminsh

Multifaceted theatremakers Munish Sharma and Gavan Cheema bring an eight-year-long project to completion by working beyond stage conventions

At the Roundhouse, Little Room Productions’ inaugural piece draws on choreographer Isak Enquist’s lifelong experience in martial arts

When an alien invasion threatens a remote town in Nunavut, three teenage girls must save the day

The large, provocative works in the Secwépemc artist’s biggest solo exhibition to date mesh with uniquely luminous spaces

Actor Brian Markinson says Lloyd Suh’s script takes artistic liberties with the life of Benjamin Franklin

Tracks off the pair’s Juno-nominated 2024 album Confluencias trace the music traditions of Spain and India

Music director emeritus Jonathan Darlington returns to conduct this Parisian love story tested by the bittersweet passage of time

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