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Review: Vancouver Opera's A Midsummer Night's Dream conjures heady music and big laughs

Rare staging of Britten opera mixes the mysterious and the farcical

MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 13, 2023Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Stir Q&A: Dil Ka playwright Lee Nisar talks biryani, being queer and South Asian, and food as the great unifier

Her new work, set in a traditional Pakistani family’s kitchen, debuts as part of Ruby Slippers’ Advance Theatre Festival at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Teenage Dick recasts Richard III with actors fit to play disabled characters

New York City-based artist Christopher Imbrosciano, who has cerebral palsy, takes on the starring role in Vancouver premiere of Mike Lew’s play

THEATREGail JohnsonFebruary 12, 2023The Arts Club, Arts Club Theatre, Arts Club, disability, Homepage feature

Corey Payette and Dillan Chiblow prepare to premiere Indigi-queer drag musical Starwalker in East Van, where it's set

The writer-composer-director and star talk high heels, Indigenous roles, and Two Spirit culture

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2023THE CULTCH, The Cultch, The York Theatre, Indigenous, LGBTQ+

Théâtre La Seizième presents Mononk Jules from February 22 to 25

The documentary-theatre piece shares the erased history of an Indigenous hero of the 20th century

THEATREStir VancouverFebruary 8, 2023Partner Content, Theatre la Seizieme

Theatre review: Soldiers of Tomorrow's artful simplicity makes for strong storytelling

With mesmerizing live music by Emad Armoush and a small army of toy soldiers, Itai Erdal confronts his past in Israel’s military

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2023PuSh Festival, The Elephant Theatre

Theatre review: Studio 58 cast brings heart to polished A Chorus Line production

Some singular sensations amid rising triple-threat talents, in a rendition that builds to a blowout finale

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2023Studio 58, Langara College, Homepage feature

Theatre review: An Undeveloped Sound leans into the liminal in look at longing, loss, and language

Electric Company Theatre’s cinematic-feeling work about a mysterious call centre raises circling questions about existence

FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2023Electric Company Theatre, PuSh Festival

Theatre review: Émilie Monnet's Okinum mesmerizes in a spiritual journey

The interdisciplinary artist’s performance at PuSh Festival draws on Anishinaabe teachings

FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 4, 2023Indigenous, PuSh Festival, Quebec, Emilie Monnet

Touchstone Theatre presents The Wrong Bashir March 2 to 12

Ismaili playwright Zahida Rahemtulla’s mistaken-identity comedy hits the Firehall Arts Centre stage

THEATREStir VancouverFebruary 3, 2023Partner Content, Touchstone Theatre

Théâtre la Seizième grows a green thumb in Le Potager, February 4 and 5

Quebec’s Le Petit Théâtre de Sherbrooke brings its kid-friendly French show to Vancouver

THEATREGail JohnsonFebruary 3, 2023Theatre la Seizieme, French, French theatre, Quebec

Theatre review: The Cull delivers focused performances in its look at people's varying moral compasses

Director Mindy Parfitt’s take on the play by Michele Riml and Michael St. John Smith spotlights its humanist-oriented dialogue

THEATREGail JohnsonFebruary 2, 2023Arts Club Theatre, Arts Club, Mindy Parfitt, John Cassini, Homepage feature

Advance Theatre Festival Week 1 unveils staged readings by female and BIPOC writers, to February 3

Playwrights include Yvonne Wallace and Jessica Liang at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts series

In Soldiers of Tomorrow, actor-playwright Itai Erdal's story of his Israeli army service triggers larger questions about conflict

In a one-man show that will “piss off both sides”, the theatre artist looks back on time in military with new eyes

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2023Itai Erdal, The Elbow Theatre, PuSh Festival

In An Undeveloped Sound, Jonathon Young explores language, existence, and the wider meaning of "development"

Inspired by the myth of Faust, the writer-playwright’s new work features a team of spokespeople representing a mysterious “developer”

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 28, 2023Electric Company Theatre, PuSh Festival, Jonathon Young

At Vancouver’s PuSh Festival, interdisciplinary artist Émilie Monnet shares Indigenous cultural significance of the beaver

For the founder of Onishka Productions, who is of Anishinaabe-Algonquin and French heritage, the immersive Okinum started as a vivid dream

FESTS, THEATREGail JohnsonJanuary 26, 2023PuSh Festival, Indigenous, Emilie Monnet

Circus arts see a raw and dreamlike new twist in O'DD and Lontano + Instante at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Finland’s Race Horse Company conjures an eerie sci-fi universe, while La Compagnie 7Bis spins the Cyr wheel in metaphorical new ways

DANCE, THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 20, 2023circus, PuSh Festival, DANCE CENTRE

The Cull strips away all the stuff in world premiere at the Arts Club

Director Mindy Parfitt takes a bold approach to the play by Michele Riml and Michael St. John Smith

THEATREGail JohnsonJanuary 20, 2023Arts Club Theatre, Mindy Parfitt, Homepage feature

Theatre review: Forgiveness is an actorly feat of endurance and artistry

The Arts Club and Theatre Calgary’s joint production of Mark Sakamoto’s acclaimed memoir proves deeply moving—with the occasional guffaw

THEATREGail JohnsonJanuary 19, 2023Arts Club Theatre, Mark Sakamoto, Japanese, Homepage feature

Studio 58 presents A Chorus Line live on Granville Island

The renowned professional theatre training program at Langara College is back for its annual hit musical at the Waterfront Theatre

THEATREStir VancouverJanuary 19, 2023Partner Content, Studio 58

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