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Vancouver stage icon Norman Young's legacy stretched from UBC theatre to the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame, and beyond

His Orpheum tours were legendary, and his volunteer work touched countless local cultural groups

THEATRE, NEWSStir VancouverApril 13, 2021UBC Theatre

Isolation Suite captures the soundscape of a man who's come UnDone

Theatre Conspiracy and Rumble Theatre audio series blends rock ‘n’ roll, poetry, and theatre

MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithApril 12, 2021Theatre Conspiracy, Rumble Theatre, RUMBLE THEATRE, Homepage feature

In the Beginning's Indigenous cultural-sharing sessions now streaming via the Firehall Arts Centre

Coproduced with Vancouver Moving Theatre, series features Indigenous elders and others tracing East Side history

THEATREStir VancouverApril 12, 2021Partner Content, FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

Affair of Honor offers furious fun in Playthings at PHT, April 8 to 17

The fight- and movement-based theatre and performance company livestreams a daring tale of mortals and gods

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonApril 7, 2021Theatre, Presentation House Theatre, PHT, What's Stirring

Theatre artists Nancy Tam and Derek Chan lead interactive audio play 蝦仔 Little Shrimp, at Carousel Theatre April 8 to May 2

Bilingual performance for kids age 6 and up looks at intergenerational bonds in Chinese families

PODCASTS, THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 7, 2021Carousel Theatre

This Is Something Else podcast digs into Arts Club and local-theatre history through conversation

Andrew Kushnir’s five-part series mines a half-century of stories behind Canada’s largest urban stage company

PODCASTS, THEATREJanet SmithApril 5, 2021Arts Club Theatre

The Essentials brings together musicians, poets, and scholars in search for what's needed, April 16 to 18

Khari Wendell McClelland hosts genre-busting concert experience, in The Cultch and Soft Cedar copresentation

THEATREStir VancouverApril 1, 2021Partner Content

The Quarantettes Bring in the Spring for isolated East Vancouverites

The uplifting story of four local theatre artists and musicians ready to sing in the season for those in need of a boost

MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithMarch 31, 2021The Chop Theatre, Neworld Theatre

Marcus Youssef's new short film Dust delivers a message from our dystopian future

The Vancouver playwright tackles climate catastrophe, data surveillance, and more in an intense and blackly satirical seven minutes

SCREEN, THEATREJanet SmithMarch 24, 2021VIFF, Neworld Theatre

Theatre review: The 7 Fingers find vivid new metaphors for pandemic limbo in moving Out of Order

The circus innovators serve up a dark carnival of aerial and acrobatic delights

THEATREJanet SmithMarch 20, 2021Les 7 Doigts, circus, The Cultch, THE CULTCH, livestream

Carmen Aguirre, Pedro Chamale star in audio drama Cloudless, to May 31

Writer José Teodoro’s suspenseful serial audio drama is loosely based on real events

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonMarch 16, 2021Pedro Chamale, Carmen Aguirre, Theatre, audio play, What's Stirring

The 7 Fingers contemporary-circus troupe imagines a world without the arts in Out of Order

The virtual show, streaming via the Cultch, features pandemic-era acrobatics and the beauty of the flawed

THEATREGail JohnsonMarch 16, 2021Theatre, The Cultch, The 7 Fingers, circus

Out of Order, by Montreal circus collective the 7 Fingers, bursts onto Vancouver screens

The Cultch presents the ground-breaking arts group’s new virtual circus experience

THEATREStir VancouverMarch 9, 2021Partner Content, The Cultch, Theatre

K Body and Mind finds multimedia utopia in a sci-fi miniseries

Cyberpunk aesthetics and an action-packed soundtrack drive theatre artist Conor Wylie’s collaborative new online work with A Wake of Vultures

THEATREStir VancouverMarch 5, 2021A Wake of Vultures, Conor Wylie, livestream

Stir Q&A: Behind the surreal stop-motion music-theatre video "We Teach Our Objects How to Speak Our Language"

Animator Margaret Krawecka talks metaphorical blinds, analogue machines, and patience, in new project by Theatre Conspiracy and Rumble Theatre

THEATRE, MUSICJanet SmithMarch 5, 2021Rumble Theatre, Theatre Conspiracy, Cold Calculi

Virtual Humanity takes Human Library's one-on-one conversations online

Amid pandemic isolation, the project that connects you with a stranger’s story has never been so needed

THEATREJanet SmithMarch 4, 2021Zee Zee Theatre

BC cultural leaders put forward suggestions to provincial government for safe re-opening of cinemas, theatres amid pandemic restrictions

Professional Performing Arts Venues and Independent Cinemas hopes for reclassification, cooperative approach to operating safely anew

Khari Wendell McClelland talks Songs for Freedom at VPL, February 25

The creative force behind Freedom Singer tunes in for a virtual performance and conversation

THEATRE, MUSICGail JohnsonFebruary 22, 2021Theatre, Freedom Singer, Vancouver Public Library, Music, Black History Month

Theatre review: Strong acting helps Mx challenge audiences in wildly inventive ways

Amid a heightened, stylized talk show, one character struggles to find identity

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2021The Cultch, BLM

Theatre review: Unexpecting, an audio play, explores female relationships amid the messiness of modern life

Bronwyn Carradine’s work is part of the Arts Club Theatre’s new Listen to This series

THEATRE, PODCASTSGail JohnsonFebruary 17, 2021theatre, podcasts, Arts Club, Arts Club Theatre

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