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Vancouver Chamber Choir sings Sonnets by the Sea, June 6
Vancouver Chamber Choir sings Sonnets by the Sea, June 6

Season-closing concert features guest artist Christopher Gaze and a world premiere by composer Thuthuka Sibisi

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MUSICStir VancouverMay 13, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Spring 2025
Theatre review: Casey and Diana's portrait of early AIDS era builds to poetic climax
Theatre review: Casey and Diana's portrait of early AIDS era builds to poetic climax

Arts Club play edges true-life story of Princess Di hospice visit into unexpected transcendent realm

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THEATREJanet SmithMay 13, 2025Arts Club Theatre Company, Spring 2025, Arts Club, Homepage feature
Much Ado About Nothing hits the BMO Mainstage at Bard on the Beach, June 10 to September 20
Much Ado About Nothing hits the BMO Mainstage at Bard on the Beach, June 10 to September 20

All is not as it seems as two of Shakespeare’s most tumultuous couples navigate secret love and mistaken identities

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THEATRE, FESTSStir VancouverMay 13, 2025Partner Content, Bard on the Beach, Shakespeare
DOXA Documentary Film Festival names 2025 award winners
DOXA Documentary Film Festival names 2025 award winners

Saints and Warriors, #skoden, and Sudan, Remember Us are among the titles that secured wins

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SCREENJanet SmithMay 12, 2025DOXA Documentary Film Festival, DOXA
Seeds of Resistance honours the vibrant legacy of Mexican poet Rosario Castellanos
Seeds of Resistance honours the vibrant legacy of Mexican poet Rosario Castellanos

With the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre, artists Marco Esccer and Carla Alcántara celebrate the centenary of the feminist writer’s birth

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DANCE, CULTUREJanet SmithMay 12, 2025VLACC, Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre, Marco Esccer, Carla Alcántara, Spring 2025, TEMPO Dance & Visual Art, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, Roundhouse Community Centre
Theatre review: Seventies-era touches bring high-spirited glam to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Theatre review: Seventies-era touches bring high-spirited glam to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

With its flared costumes and feisty performances, Metro Theatre’s production of a Rice and Lloyd Webber favourite offers a quirkily fun tour of musical genres

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THEATREJanet SmithMay 12, 2025Metro Theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Spring 2025, Homepage feature
Vancouver Chopin Society hosts famed Russian pianist Mikhail Voskresensky, May 30
Vancouver Chopin Society hosts famed Russian pianist Mikhail Voskresensky, May 30

Now based in the U.S., artist brings more than 60 years of performance experience and award wins to the stage

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MUSICStir VancouverMay 12, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Chopin Society
Theatre review: Every Day She Rose poses unsettling, unanswered questions about privilege
Theatre review: Every Day She Rose poses unsettling, unanswered questions about privilege

As storylines switch between playwrights and the characters they’ve created, this challenging Zee Zee Theatre production spotlights hidden disparities separating two best friends

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THEATREJanet SmithMay 11, 2025THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Zee Zee Theatre, Spring 2025
Disco-charged Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat stars Argel Monte De Ramos, to June 8 at Metro Theatre
Disco-charged Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat stars Argel Monte De Ramos, to June 8 at Metro Theatre

Fast-rising Filipino-Canadian actor and singer-songwriter takes the titular role in a rendition set in a 1970s variety show

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THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 9, 2025Metro Theatre, Spring 2025
Dance review: Love in all its complexity at Ballet BC’s season-closing DUSK
Dance review: Love in all its complexity at Ballet BC’s season-closing DUSK

Powerful dancing across the board in Medhi Walerski’s striking Last light; Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber’s straight-from-the-heart Obsidian; and Marco Goecke’s vibrating Woke Up Blind

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DANCEJanet SmithMay 9, 2025BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Spring 2025
Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs closes its season with SummerSing!, May 13
Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs closes its season with SummerSing!, May 13

Beatles songs and Broadway hits are on the program featuring performers of all ages

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MUSICJanet SmithMay 9, 2025Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, Vancouver Bach Choir, Spring 2025
Shayna Goldberg steps into new role as Chutzpah! Festival's artistic managing director
Shayna Goldberg steps into new role as Chutzpah! Festival's artistic managing director

The transition follows her departure from Music on Main, where she served as artistic planning and operations manager for seven years

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THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithMay 9, 2025chutzpah! festival, Chutzpah! Festival, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN
Queering Cinema series brings five form-pushing features to the VIFF Centre, May 15 to June 12
Queering Cinema series brings five form-pushing features to the VIFF Centre, May 15 to June 12

Moonlight, Tehran: City of Love, and more explore themes of loneliness, belonging, and desire in program curated by Fay Nass

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SCREENStir VancouverMay 9, 2025Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre, Spring 2025
Book review: Rodney DeCroo's Night Moves focuses on the passing mysteries of city's sidewalks
Book review: Rodney DeCroo's Night Moves focuses on the passing mysteries of city's sidewalks

With this gritty collection of street photographs, the Vancouver songwriter, poet, and playwright opens a new chapter in his hard-won life as an artist

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ART & DESIGN, READJanet SmithMay 9, 2025Rodney DeCroo, Anvil Press, Homepage feature
In Meeting, sex and love addicts engage in tough conversations about trauma and abuse
In Meeting, sex and love addicts engage in tough conversations about trauma and abuse

Playwright Katherine Gauthier’s fly-on-the-wall production at Pacific Theatre follows five people in a group therapy session as they exchange intimate thoughts

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THEATREJanet SmithMay 8, 2025Pacific Theatre, ITSAZOO Productions, Spring 2025, Katherine Gauthier, Marcus Youssef, Kaitlin Williams
With the VSO’s Coastal Soundscapes, Naomi Woo brings a study in contrasts to the Annex
With the VSO’s Coastal Soundscapes, Naomi Woo brings a study in contrasts to the Annex

In the latest installment of the VSO at the Annex series, the conductor and pianist hopes the eclectic program will take some of the intimidation factor out of new music

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MUSICJanet SmithMay 8, 2025VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Spring 2025
Vancouver Cultural Precinct group eyes new performing-arts halls sharing proposed Vancouver Art Gallery site
Vancouver Cultural Precinct group eyes new performing-arts halls sharing proposed Vancouver Art Gallery site

City council throws support behind feasibility study’s call for world-class mid-size venue and recital hall

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NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithMay 8, 2025Vancouver Cultural Precinct, Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society
Bruce Liu joins the VSO for Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, May 30 to June 1
Bruce Liu joins the VSO for Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, May 30 to June 1

Paris-born, Montreal-raised pianist won the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw

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MUSICStir VancouverMay 8, 2025Partner Content, Bruce Liu, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
The Cultch unveils 2025-26 season packed with physical feats, big local premieres, and East Van Panto: West Van Story
The Cultch unveils 2025-26 season packed with physical feats, big local premieres, and East Van Panto: West Van Story

Wild treadmill antics, nostalgic-’90s circus, and new work by the likes of Corey Payette, Carmen Aguirre, Anais West, Veda Hille, and Maiko Yamamoto

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THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithMay 8, 2025The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Theatre Replacement, Urban Ink Theatre, Electric Company Theatre, Marcus Youssef, East Van Panto
Hong Kong Exile tunes into celestial stories at the Vancouver Art Gallery, May 15
Hong Kong Exile tunes into celestial stories at the Vancouver Art Gallery, May 15

As part of Asian Heritage Month, the gallery’s first performers-in-residence use old-school radios and headlamps in a new piece that fuses dance, multimedia, and theatre

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ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, DANCEJanet SmithMay 7, 2025Vancouver Art Gallery, Asian Heritage Month, Spring 2025
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The Nutcracker at Wethersfield follows New York City Ballet to a wintry estate, to December 28 at VIFF Centre. 

The Leading Ladies bring to life Duke Ellington’s swingy twist on Tchaikovsky score at December 14 screening. 

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Vancouver Cantata Singers bridge generations with Christmas Reprise concerts

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Goh Ballet fosters young talent and holiday cheer with 15th edition of The Nutcracker

Amid tulle tutus and fleecey lambs, director Chan Hon Goh reflects on the history of the “feel-good production”. 

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Gateway Theatre’s Annie brings back classic songs and a sense of optimism, to January 3. 

And did we mention the live dogs playing Sandy?

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