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Stir Q&A: Kyle Loven takes Me Love BINGO!: Best in Snow to the next, holiday level

In new Arts Club production, the cult drag extravaganza builds on the idea that started in the artist’s living room

HOLIDAY22, THEATREJanet SmithNovember 28, 2022Arts Club Theatre, Kyle Loven, Holiday 2022, Homepage feature

Theatre review: The Parliament of the Birds takes an allegorical journey of enlightenment

At UBC Theatre, avian odyssey alternates the absurd, the abstract, and the philosophical

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 28, 2022UBC Theatre

Real lives, historical truths, and a bit of magic realism fuel Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story

The hit musical’s story of survival and progress still speaks poignantly to displacement and migration in Canada today

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 25, 2022SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs, SFU Woodward's, Homepage feature

Theatre review: Manami Hara's astonishing Courage Now deftly interweaves past and present

Incredible true story of Japan vice-consul’s Second World War bravery offers hope in dark times

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 24, 2022FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

Stir Q & A: Szepty/Whispers gets creative in its approach to accessibility

The new theatre piece written by Veronique West and co-produced by Rumble Theatre and V West is part of Pi Theatre’s Pi Provocateurs Series

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 24, 2022Pi Provocateurs, Pi Theatre, Veronique West, Homepage feature

Theatre review: East Van Panto: The Little Mermaid makes a fresh splash with its undersea antics

Kate Bush tunes, dangly kelp designs, fairy-tale take-downs, and even some deeper messages earn the 10th anniversary show cheers

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithNovember 23, 2022Homepage feature, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Holiday 2022, Theatre Replacement

Vancouver holiday show guide 2022: Laughs, nostalgia, and classic choral beauty are all on the program

From a candle-lit harp concert to a one-man Christmas Carol, all the arts events you need to know to get festive

DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, COMEDYGail JohnsonNovember 21, 2022Holiday 2022, Festive 1

Pi Provocateurs presents Szepty/Whispers

In the new play, a neurodivergent artist probes their family’s silence around mental health

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 19, 2022Partner Content, Pi Theatre

Theatre review: The Arts Club's Sound of Music sees a lavish remount, with Chelsea Rose making a mesmerizing Maria

Superb singing carries a show that is polished to the last detail

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Stir VancouverNovember 18, 2022Homepage feature, Arts Club Theatre, Holiday 2022, Feature 1

East Van Panto: The Little Mermaid reverses the underwater tale, and gives it a romantic twist

Ghazal Azarbad and Amanda Sum talk dolphin squeaks, dastardly villains, and the need to subvert the messages in the 1989 cartoon

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithNovember 17, 2022The Cultch, THE CULTCH|, East Van Panto, Holiday 2022, Homepage feature

Theatre review: Jesus Christ Superstar revival puts focus on music over storytelling

Some energetic numbers and visually impressive design can’t make up for a show that feels rushed and compressed

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 17, 2022Broadway Across Canada

Vancouver playwright Manami Hara tells diplomat hero Chiune Sugihara's life story in new ways

The late Japanese consul in Lithuania helped some 6,000 Jewish people flee Nazi-controlled Europe

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 16, 2022Firehall Arts Centre, Manami Hara, Jane Heyman, Japanese, Carmen Aguirre

Vancouver's Dorothy Dittrich wins Governor-General's Literary Award for Drama

The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key, which premiered at the Arts Club in 2017, takes national prize

NEWS, READ, THEATREJanet SmithNovember 16, 2022G-G Awards, Governor General's Literary Awards

In We Deserve to Work, 15 co-creators aim to transform attitudes about employment for people with disabilities

Self-advocates created, researched, and perform in the new play

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 14, 2022Massey Theatre, disability

Anne of Green Gables – The Musical comes to Gateway Theatre

The timeless classic is Canada’s favourite musical

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Stir VancouverNovember 14, 2022Partner Content, Gateway Theatre, Holiday 2022

Theatre review: Un.Deux.Trois grapples with complex questions of Franco-Canadian identity

Playwright Mani Soleymanlou’s epic trilogy unpeels layer after layer in the quest for self-understanding

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 13, 2022Theatre la Seizieme, Mani Soleymanlou, theatre review, review

Theatre review: The Cave's cabaret-jazz songs are the highlight of climate-minded creature feature

Performers hand in compelling vocal turns as animals in a show that sometimes gets heavy handed with humans

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 13, 2022The Cultch

The Cultch unveils full live winter-spring season, starting with Ronnie Burkett and new Corey Payette musical Starwalker

Australia’s popular Circa troupe and New Zealand’s Indian Ink Theatre Company will also hit Vancouver

NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithNovember 10, 2022THE CULTCH, The Cultch

Studio 58's Metamorphoses reimagines Roman myths for current times, November 17 to 24

Second show of the season to take place out in community, at Vancity Culture Lab

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 10, 2022Partner Content, Studio 68, Langara College

The Frontliners looks at the challenges of helping refugees amid Vancouver's housing crisis, November 10 to 13

Zahida Rahemtulla’s play was winner of 2022’s Vancouver Fringe Festival’s New Play in Development Prize

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