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Belgium's Peeping Tom draws on cinematic artistry, memories, and nightmares for Diptych

Olivier Award–winning dance-theatre troupe blends physically pummelling choreography with surreal worlds that blur reality and fantasy

DANCEJanet SmithApril 17, 2025DANCEHOUSE, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Spring 2025

Metro Theatre presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, May 9 to June 8

New interpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical trades Biblical Egypt for a travelling variety show

THEATREStir VancouverApril 17, 2025Partner Content, Metro Theatre, Spring 2025, Andrew Lloyd Webber

Eccentric candidates compete for true love as The Improv Centre runs The Bachelor-ish to May 31

Each 90-minute show based on the hit reality-TV series ends with a dramatic final rose ceremony

WHAT'S STIRRING, COMEDYJanet SmithApril 17, 2025The Improv Centre, Jessica Mann Gutteridge, Spring 2025

Baritone Thomas Hampson joins the VSO for Rachmaninoff, Mahler & The Mermaid, May 9 and 10

Andrey Boreyko conducts the program, which features selections from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn)

Stringed-instrument virtuoso Stefano Maiorana crosses centuries in Secret Pages for Theorbo

Both traditional and groundbreaking, works from the 17th century and the present day mingle in this exploration of the musical riches of Venice

Atlantic Jazz Collective performs reimagined classics at BlueShore at CapU, May 10

Veteran singer Norma Winstone and drummer Joe LaBarbera join the trio to deliver exciting new perspectives on familiar tunes

MUSICStir VancouverApril 16, 2025Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, Spring 2025

Resilience and ambition power Royal City Musical Theatre's 9 to 5

Maia Beresford and castmates draw on inspiring role models for a production marking the farewell of revered artistic director Valerie Easton

THEATREJanet SmithApril 15, 2025Royal City Musical Theatre, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

At DOXA's Justice Forum, The Pickers follows migrant workers on European farms, May 2

A panel discussion with workers and community advocates takes place after the VIFF Centre screening

SCREENStir VancouverApril 15, 2025Partner Content, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, DOXA

Am Johal steps in as curator-in-residence at Indian Summer Festival

Former director of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement will program around theme of Borderless Solidarities for July event

NEWS, FESTSJanet SmithApril 15, 2025Am Johal, Indian Summer Festival

Complex links between mind and nature fill A Tangled Thicket at Surrey Art Gallery

Z·inc Artist Collective brings deep curiosity and personal experience to meditations on networks that sustain and adapt

Vancouver International Jazz Festival announces free outdoor programming for summer 2025

Offerings include Downtown Jazz concerts on June 21 and 22, Bentall Centre happy-hour shows from June 23 to 27, and a day-long July 1 celebration

Theatre review: DEAD DRONE buzzes with live theatre’s power to engage and disrupt

Blurring fantasy and urgent reality, Upintheair Theatre’s satirical new work refuses to let its audience retreat into escapism

THEATREJanet SmithApril 15, 2025Upintheair Theatre, Spring 2025

Vancouver Chamber Choir celebrates five years of premieres with Fresh Ink, May 9

Tawnie Olson’s “Beloved of the Sky” and Andrew Balfour’s “Kiyam” accompany a new work by laura hawley on the program

MUSICStir VancouverApril 15, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Spring 2025, Kari Turunen

Tea Creek and Firma Aquí take top awards at Sundar Prize Film Festival

Mareya Shot Keetha Goal: Make the Shot won a spot as best B.C. feature, plus much more as Surrey-based event hands out cash and development support

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithApril 14, 2025Sundar Prize Film Festival, Spring 2025

Whisky & Words offers a chance to celebrate local standouts, April 25 at Performance Works

Vancouver Writers Fest fundraiser features tastings from strong B.C. contingent, as well as Scottish distillers

CULINARY, READJanet SmithApril 14, 2025Vancouver Writers Fest, Spring 2025

Cascade Peaks ChamberFest announces Princeton concert series lineup, June 20 to 22

Borealis String Quartet, Gryphon Trio, and more musicians to perform world-class compositions at RockRidge Canyon lakeside resort

MUSICStir VancouverApril 14, 2025Partner Content, Cascade Peaks ChamberFest, Spring 2025

Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 events to check out at this year's North Shore Writers Festival

Free offerings include a hockey talk led by sports journalists and a conversation with author Chelene Knight

Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre launches B.C. concert tour of A Whole New World, May 17 to June 20

All-Canadian production by Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre features iconic hits from Disney and Hollywood musicals

Fast-rising Isidore String Quartet puts accent on joy and uplift, at Friends of Chamber Music April 15

The young ensemble revisits and reinvigorates repertoire with an energy that breaks through classical solemnity

MUSIC, CONTESTSJanet SmithApril 14, 2025Friends of Chamber Music, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Spring 2025

Vines Art Society hosts a Tattoo Gathering with Indigenous artists, April 26 and 27

Funds raised from flash tattoos go directly to the Artist Survival & Healing Fund, which specifically benefits land-back and cultural-care workers

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverApril 12, 2025Partner Content, Vines Art Society, Vines Art Festival

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