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Elaine Ávila’s Fado: The Saddest Music in the World returns to the Vancouver stage

Part musical, part theatre piece, Fado explores identity through the hauntingly moving music of Portugal

THEATREGail JohnsonJanuary 6, 2023Firehall Arts Centre, Puente Theatre, Elaine Avilas, Donna Spencer, Portuguese, fado

Hiro Kanagawa adapts a large-scale staging of Mark Sakamoto's moving memoir Forgiveness

Artful animation, scores of costumes help move between Japanese prison camp and internment trauma during World War II

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 6, 2023Homepage feature, Arts Club Theatre, Hiro Kanagawa

With world premiere of Instantaneous Blue, Mitch and Murray Productions celebrates 10th anniversary, to January 22

Playwright Aaron Craven’s semi-autobiographical portrait of a family’s struggle with dementia is the company’s first original Canadian work

FADO – The Saddest Music in the World brings its tale of love and ghosts back to the Firehall Arts Centre, January 14 to February 5

Sara Marreiros returns in the lead role to sing Portugal’s heartrending national music

THEATRE, MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 4, 2023Partner Content, FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

In Little Willy, Ronnie Burkett's eccentric marionettes meet Romeo and Juliet

Elderly ingenue Esmé Massengill, burlesque queen Dolly Wiggler, and ever-endearing fairy Schnitzel put a campy twist on Shakespeare

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 3, 2023The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Ronnie Burkett, Homepage feature

At PuSh Festival, Argentinian artist Tiziano Cruz explores culture of inequality in Soliloquio (I woke up and hit my head against the wall)

The insightful performative lecture uses the power of theatre to examine economic, racial, and institutional oppression

FESTS, THEATREStir VancouverJanuary 3, 2023Partner Content, PuSh Festival

2022 in review: A few of the year's most memorable moments in Vancouver performing and visual arts

Cyborg ballet, multisensory percussion, and a chorus of singing ghosts were just some of 2022’s highlights

Theatre review: Anne of Green Gables—The Musical soars on strong performances, energized dance, and PEI charm

Musicians push back against anti-Asian hate, speak out about their experiences of racism in live concert

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Stir VancouverDecember 19, 2022Gateway Theatre, Holiday 2022

Anne of Green Gables—The Musical star brings triple-threat skills to classic, at the Gateway December 15 to 31

Known for Riverdale appearances and other local musicals, Kyra Leroux takes on the role of the feisty Avonlea orphan

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithDecember 12, 2022Holiday 2022, Gateway Theatre

Sanjay Talwar takes multitasking to festive new heights, playing all of A Christmas Carol's characters

In solo feat, Shaw and Stratford veteran roots out the vivid details in Dickens’s original story

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithDecember 12, 2022FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre, Holiday 2022

The Necessity of Live Art: PuSh Festival's Gabrielle Martin on programming with need in mind

Director of programming cites empathy, communion, and renewed international presence at event, January 19 to February 5, 2023

THEATRE, FESTSStir VancouverDecember 12, 2022Partner Content, PuSh Festival

Theatre review: Me Love BINGO!: Best in Snow is fun and games with a message, but its story lags

Audience participates in real BINGO, with special guests, puppets, and prizes

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithDecember 11, 2022Arts Club Theatre, Holiday 2022

Glowing ghosts, expressive masks, and more in A Wonderheads Christmas Carol, to December 11 across the Lower Mainland

Highlights include a vine-bearded Ghost of Christmas Present and an adorable puppet Tiny Tim

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRING, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithDecember 8, 2022Holiday 2022

Theatre review: In My Day is a moving, and surprisingly funny, tribute to Vancouver's early HIV history

The vividly choreographed verbatim play whirls through the eras, from West End disco heyday through loss, activism, and drug cocktails

THEATREJanet SmithDecember 6, 2022The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Zee Zee Theatre

The Improv Centre offers up a trio of holiday hilarity on Granville Island to December 31

Happy (Hectic) Holidays is followed by an improvised Year in Review and a New Year’s Rockin’ Eve

COMEDY, THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Stir VancouverDecember 5, 2022Partner Content, The Improv Centre, Holiday 2022

Theatre review: Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is dark yet intensely entertaining

Multi-threat performer Ben Caplan thunders in the music-theatre piece based on the true story of playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s great grandparents

THEATREGail JohnsonDecember 2, 2022SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs, Ben Caplan, theatre, review

Alberta Theatre Projects announces departure of Rohit Chokhani as his The Jungle Book opens

The theatre artist had left the helm of the Vancouver Fringe Festival in April 2021

NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithDecember 1, 2022Alberta Theatre Projects, Rohit Chokhani

In My Day traces a forgotten era of HIV activism in major verbatim theatre project

Playwright Rick Waines and director Shawn Macdonald bring to life real stories of the successes and failures in first 15 years of the virus here

THEATREJanet SmithDecember 1, 2022The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Zee Zee Theatre, AIDS, World AIDS Day, HIV, LGBTQ+

Firehall Arts Centre celebrates the holiday season with A Christmas Carol

Sanjay Talwar performs all 40 characters in Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre’s one-man version of the familiar tale

HOLIDAY22, THEATREStir VancouverNovember 29, 2022Partner Content, Holiday 2022

Daniel Martin leaves his role at Upintheair Theatre amid a blaze of experimentation at The Array

After more than two decades of boundary-pushing work and nurturing emerging artists, the company enters a new chapter

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 29, 2022Upintheair Theatre, The Array

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