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Stir Q&A: Skid Dogs author Emelia Symington Fedy talks teen years and consent

The Chop Theatre artist returns to Ashcroft for her aching yet funny new memoir

READJanet SmithOctober 18, 2023Whistler Writers Festival

Massey Theatre hosts Kid Koala's The Storyville Mosquito, November 25 and 26

Production is performed, filmed, projected, and scored in real-time using 20 miniature sets, puppetry, and live music

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 18, 2023Partner Content, Massey Theatre

Soprano Audrey Luna reigns over high notes as Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute

Record-breaking singer loves the “female energy” of Vancouver Opera’s stylized production of the Mozart classic

MUSIC, OPERAJanet SmithOctober 17, 2023VANCOUVER OPERA, Vancouver Opera, Mozart, Homepage feature

Amsterdam-based Busch Trio performs a Friends of Chamber Music concert, November 7

Ensemble features pianist Omri Epstein, cellist Ori Epstein, and violinist Mathieu van Bellen

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 17, 2023Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

Theatre review: Peace Country looks at B.C. environmental issues from a complex range of perspectives

The often funny story set in a fictional small B.C. town is rooted in an all-too-familiar reality

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 17, 2023FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

Eight-piece klezmer group Oktopus offers an upbeat-yet-melancholic twist on tradition, in concert October 21

Octet seamlessly blends Jewish folk music with classical, Quebecois, and jazz influences at the Massey Theatre

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 17, 2023Massey Theatre

The Wizard of Oz hits the Granville Island Stage from November 3 to 12

Show delivers songs, characters, and moments from the beloved 1939 film based on L. Frank Baum’s novel

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 17, 2023Partner Content, CTORA Theatre

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts hosts Arts Club production The Birds and the Bees, November 2 and 3

Canadian comedy abuzz with love, lust, beekeeping antics, and the artificial insemination of turkeys

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 16, 2023Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Arts Club Theatre

Cree composer Andrew Balfour brings Indigenous storytelling to Vancouver Chamber Choir as this season's composer-in-residence

Winnipeg-raised artist conducts his piece Waawaa-Steewak—Cree for “Northern Lights”—in upcoming concert

MUSIC, CULTUREJanet SmithOctober 16, 2023Vancouver Chamber Choir, Andrew Balfour

Prague’s Zemlinsky Quartet takes cues from its namesake

Playing together for almost three decades, group pays tribute to composer who bridged the classical past and modernism

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 16, 2023Friends of Chamber Music

Co.ERASGA hosts world premiere of dance hybrid work Accumulation, November 9 to 11

Solo by Alvin Erasga Tolentino uses found objects, debris, and natural remnants to tell a story of environmental crisis

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 16, 2023Partner Content, Co.ERASGA

Mary Walsh brings some of fans' favourite comedic characters back to Kay Meek Arts Centre, October 20

The former CODCO and This Hour Has 22 Minutes star will also serves up her own satirical takes on today’s politics

COMEDY, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 16, 2023Mary Walsh

Tanika Charles serves cabaret soul at the Kay Meek Arts Centre, October 28 and 29

Toronto-based artist’s latest album Papillon de Nuit: The Night Butterfly mixes ’70s soul with jazz-funk

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 15, 2023Partner Content, Kay Meek Arts Centre

Theatre review: Someone Like You puts a triumphant, wryly honest new spin on Cyrano de Bergerac—and the rom com

Christine Quintana’s new play is by turns painfully funny and casually devastating, with a protagonist who struggles against fat phobia and relegation to the witty friend

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 14, 2023Arts Club Theatre

At Vancouver Writers Fest, Jen Sookfong Lee reflects on the pop culture that shaped her in Superfan

The local author says reality television is the great equalizer in social situations

READ, FESTS, CULTUREJanet SmithOctober 14, 2023Jen Sookfong Lee, Vancouver Writers Fest

Cory Weeds Quintet performs soulful jazz at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, October 29

Show features special guest trumpet player Jerry Weldon, who starred on Harry Connick Jr.’s television program HARRY

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 14, 2023Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Manufacturing the Threat returns with hard look at homemade-bomb caper in B.C., at VIFF Centre October 15 to 20

In its first return here since DOXA. documentary raises troubling questions about entrapment, national security, and democracy

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 13, 2023VIFF, VIFF Centre

Ukrainian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk transports audiences to an immersive musical universe with Haydn, Chopin, and Mussorgsky

Ahead of Vancouver Chopin Society concert, Wigmore Hall artist-in-residence talks about Chopin’s “beautiful expressions of love” and “mountains of virtuosity”

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 13, 2023Vancouver Chopin Society, Homepage feature