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Cree artist Michelle Thrush pokes fun and puts her own truth onstage as Kookum Martha

In Inner Elder at the Firehall Arts Centre, the Calgary-based theatre veteran draws on more than three decades of Indigenous clowning experience

THEATREJanet SmithMay 14, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

Otto Tausk leads the VSO and guest soloists in Beethoven’s Ninth: “Ode to Joy”, June 6 and 7

Program also features North American premiere of Danish composer Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen’s Violin Concerto with violinist Simone Lamsma

MUSICStir VancouverMay 14, 2025Partner Content, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Theatre review: CTORA shows off triple-threat chops in gripping West Side Story

Moving into ambitious new territory, the company meets the many challenges of the Broadway classic and its still-relevant message

THEATREJanet SmithMay 13, 2025SPRING 2025, West Side Story, CTORA Theatre, CTORA, Homepage feature

Dancing on the Edge unveils program full of local works by the likes of MascallDance and Ziyian Kwan, June 12 to 21

Moroccan and Spanish choreographers join the international contingent of event that runs at Firehall Arts Centre and SFU Woodward’s

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithMay 13, 2025Dancing on the Edge, Firehall Arts Centre, FIREHALL, SFU Woodward's

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

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

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

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

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

THEATRE, FESTSStir VancouverMay 13, 2025Partner Content, Bard on the Beach, Shakespeare

DOXA Documentary Film Festival names 2025 award winners

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

SCREENJanet SmithMay 12, 2025DOXA Documentary Film Festival, DOXA

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

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

THEATREJanet SmithMay 12, 2025Metro Theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

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

MUSICStir VancouverMay 12, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Chopin Society

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

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

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

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 9, 2025Metro Theatre, Spring 2025

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

DANCEJanet SmithMay 9, 2025BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Spring 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MUSICJanet SmithMay 8, 2025VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Spring 2025

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