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Ballet BC announces 2025-26 season, complete with a Jiří Kylián work and new Saturday matinees

Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber share a full-evening work, and hit productions of Crystal Pite’s Frontier and Shahar Binyamini’s BOLERO X return

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithMay 15, 2025Ballet BC, BALLET BC, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

At the rEvolver Festival, playwright Sarvin Esmaeili gives femme body hair a voice

In Hair Hair Everywhere, Shabnam debates whether or not she should shave

Surrey Art Gallery hosts an all-ages Family Art Party, June 1

Event inspired by the current exhibition A Tangled Thicket features hands-on art activities and a theatrical performance

Theatre review: Henry VIII's queens bring down history and the house in defiantly catchy SIX

In girl power–fuelled show, performers channel sounds of Beyoncé, Lily Allen, and more in turning the tables on doomed relationships

THEATREJanet SmithMay 15, 2025Broadway Across Canada, Spring 2025

Doors Open Richmond returns for its 18th annual edition, June 7 and 8

At Richmond Museum event, visitors can explore over 50 partner sites, ranging from Seawrack Press Studio to LuLu Island Winery

With Arts Umbrella's Season Finale, Rena Narumi returns to source of artistic independence and community

In the midst of an international career, the Kidd Pivot dancer is setting a short Crystal Pite work for the student showcase

DANCEJanet SmithMay 14, 2025Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA, SPRING 2025

Cinematheque celebrates the spare, transcendent vision of Robert Bresson

In the retrospective Secret Laws of the Cinematograph, the enigmatic French director’s hugely influential career comes into intense focus

SCREENJanet SmithMay 14, 2025The CInematheque, Spring 2025, Robert Bresson

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