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Vancouver's Improv Centre launches THE HEAT—An International Improv Comedy Showcase

Los Angeles troupe Glass Clown joins ensembles from Canada, England, the U.S., and the Philippines in inaugural festival

COMEDYGail JohnsonJanuary 18, 2024The Improv Centre, improv, comedy

Vetta Chamber Music gets unabashedly romantic in Music of the Heart

The organization’s upcoming piano-focused concert is all about emotion

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 18, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, piano

BlueShore at CapU hosts Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz in concert, February 2

Grammy-nominated jazz singer McGarry and guitarist Ganz team up for a jazz-pop repertoire from the ’60s and ’70s

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 17, 2024Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Armed with a big, 1950s Gibson, Australia's Minnie Marks brings new energy to International Guitar Night

On her first North American tour, Australia’s rousing singer and propulsive electric guitarist draws on Down Under blues and follows her heart

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 17, 2024International Guitar Night, blues, Massey Theatre, The Massey, Homepage feature

Vancouver Opera presents classic comic opera Don Pasquale, February 10, 15, and 18

Gaetano Donizetti’s beloved show stars Gregory Dahl as Don Pasquale, and features production by acclaimed duo Barbe & Doucet

OPERAStir VancouverJanuary 17, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Opera

Gravity & Other Myths' The Mirror pushes the limits of human endurance

Australian company draws on circus arts and dance for its high-flying work soon having its North American premiere in Vancouver

DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 17, 2024DanceHouse, dance, Homepage feature

Hold On Let Go performances disrupt conventions, push forms—and put unexpected objects at centre stage

Theatre Replacement and Company 605’s renamed and ever-growing series gathers experimental works at Russian Hall

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2024Theatre Replacement, Company 605, Maiko Yamamoto

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra hosts Black Panther in Concert, February 9 and 10

Audiences can see Ludwig Göransson’s Oscar-winning Marvel Studios film score performed live to picture

MUSIC, SCREENStir VancouverJanuary 16, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO

Montréal’s Compagnie Virginie Brunelle headlines just-announced 2024 Vancouver International Dance Festival

Running February 25 to March 9, Kokoro Dance event also features FakeKnot’s whip, Ferenc Fehér’s Disco Boys, Tony Chong’s Invisible, and more

Han Finckel Setzer Trio returns to Vancouver in Friends of Chamber Music concert, February 6

Cellist David Finckel, pianist Wu Han, and violinist Philip Setzer perform Schubert’s first and second Piano Trios

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 16, 2024Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

TomoeArts closes the curtain with program commemorating legacy of late artistic director Colleen Lanki, January 20

Fifteen Years of Dream features performances by company’s closest collaborators over its 15-year run, in honour of Japanese classical dance master Lanki

DANCE, MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2024TomoeArts

Anvil Theatre showcases Hannah Moscovitch’s Bunny, February 8 to 18

Love story subversion produced by The Search Party has won four Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards

THEATREStir VancouverJanuary 15, 2024Partner Content, Anvil Theatre

Paper becomes a playground in Pli, at the PuSh Festival

The copresentation with Chutzpah! Festival sees paper used as an aerial rope, a dance partner, and more

DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 15, 2024PuSh Festival, Chutzpah! Festival, circus, Homepage feature

Romania's Tangaj Collective explores "choreomania" and microbiology at the Scotiabank Dance Centre

Ramanenjana takes a witty look back at a real mass-dance event in Madagascar, while BLOT – Body Line of Thought cultivates real bacteria

Calendar Girls spotlights middle-aged women in a heartwarming true story

At the Kay Meek Arts Centre, Leather and Lace Theatre production tells of women who pose for nude calendar to raise money for local hospital

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 12, 2024Kay Meek Arts Centre, Leather and Lace Theatre, Homepage feature

Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs present annual Behind the Keys fundraiser, February 9

Conductor-pianist Leslie Dala and tenor Asitha Tennekoon perform a Valentine’s Day program with wine, chocolate, and optional charcuterie

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 11, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Bach Choir

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival cancels Israel-set The Runner after Palestinian artist's input

Basel Zaraa had pledged to withdraw Dear Laila from PuSh if other play stayed on program

FESTS, NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2024PuSh Festival

KDocsFF unveils documentary lineup for 10th anniversary social-justice fest, February 21 to 25

Under the theme of "Journeys in Solidarity”, fest screens 19 films on everything from homeless tent encampments to transgender comedians to the fight for freedom of speech in Russia

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2024KDocsFF, VIFF