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Macbeth and The Merry Wives of Windsor on deck as Bard on the Beach announces summer of 2026 programming
Macbeth and The Merry Wives of Windsor on deck as Bard on the Beach announces summer of 2026 programming

Goblin:Oedipus and Antigone set to hit the Douglas Campbell Theatre next season

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FESTS, THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 22, 2025Bard on the Beach, Shakespeare
Curve! and A Haida Wedding amid BC Book Prize winners
Curve! and A Haida Wedding amid BC Book Prize winners

At award gala, Vancouver poet Fred Wah received Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.

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READ, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithSeptember 21, 2025Audain Art Museum, Dana Claxton, Robert Davidson, Figure 1 Pubishing, BC and Yukon Book Prizes, BC books
Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum opens at SFU Burnaby campus
Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum opens at SFU Burnaby campus

The 12,100-square-foot building features timber and glass, bridging art and the surrounding forest and opening with an inaugural exhibition called Edge Effects

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ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 20, 2025Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum, SFU
Upintheair Theatre hosts The Array: Less Than Zero at What Lab, October 9 to 11
Upintheair Theatre hosts The Array: Less Than Zero at What Lab, October 9 to 11

Abi Padilla, Argel Monte de Ramos, and Anjela Magpantay are among the artists creating new works that draw on astrophysics

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THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 19, 2025Partner Content, Upintheair Theatre, The Array, Abi Padilla, The Biting School
Vetta Chamber Music kicks off its 40th anniversary season by exploring the cosmos
Vetta Chamber Music kicks off its 40th anniversary season by exploring the cosmos

Artistic director and violinist Joan Blackman says Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy’s interstellar Dark Energy is challenging but worth the effort

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MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 19, 2025Vetta Chamber Music, Joan Blackman
The VSO hosts violinist Maria Ioudenitch for Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, October 17 and 18
The VSO hosts violinist Maria Ioudenitch for Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, October 17 and 18

German conductor Constantin Trinks will lead the concert, which also features Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5

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MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 19, 2025Partner Content, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
In Nightwalks with Teenagers, generations meet to wander the streets after dark
In Nightwalks with Teenagers, generations meet to wander the streets after dark

Mammalian Diving Reflex production comes to Vancouver for the first time in a bilingual presentation by Théâtre la Seizième

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THEATREEmily LythSeptember 18, 2025Mammalian Diving Reflex, Theatre la Seizieme, Theatre La Seizieme, Théâtre la Seizième, Homepage feature
Pacific Theatre stages a remount of Will Eno's profound play Wakey, Wakey, October 15 to November 2
Pacific Theatre stages a remount of Will Eno's profound play Wakey, Wakey, October 15 to November 2

Jessie Richardson Theatre Award–nominated production follows a man as he reflects on beginnings and endings

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THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 18, 2025Partner Content, Pacific Theatre
Palabra Flamenco blends spoken poetry and age-old Iberian art form at Vancouver International Flamenco Festival
Palabra Flamenco blends spoken poetry and age-old Iberian art form at Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

Poet Garth Martens says the Victoria-based troupe’s performances are a visceral and intimate conversation between words, music, and dance

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READ, DANCE, FESTS, MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 18, 2025flamenco, Vancouver International Flamenco Festival
The Improv Centre serves slasher nostalgia with I Know What You Did Last Weekend, starting September 19
The Improv Centre serves slasher nostalgia with I Know What You Did Last Weekend, starting September 19

Company also announces new artistic director Alan Pavlakovic

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COMEDY, WHAT'S STIRRINGEmily LythSeptember 18, 2025The Improv Centre, improv, comedy
Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe marks Canadian debut with Vancouver Recital Society, November 2
Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe marks Canadian debut with Vancouver Recital Society, November 2

Grammy Award–nominated artist to play a mixed program of works by Steve Reich, J.S. Bach, Thomas Adès, and more

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MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 18, 2025Partner Content, VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY, Vancouver Recital Society
Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival unveils 22nd edition spanning Day of the Dead shadow puppetry, Mayor of Oz, and more
Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival unveils 22nd edition spanning Day of the Dead shadow puppetry, Mayor of Oz, and more

Also in store at the celebration running from October 31 to November 8 is SHELTER, an exhibition featuring works by 30 marginalized artists

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FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 18, 2025Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, Downtown Eastside, Vancouver Moving Theatre
Gateway Theatre stages Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B, October 16 to 25
Gateway Theatre stages Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B, October 16 to 25

Kate Hamill’s production offers a post-pandemic take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective tale

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THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 17, 2025Partner Content, Gateway Theatre
Cinematic, experimental Blue Horse Opera roams through genres, September 19 to 21
Cinematic, experimental Blue Horse Opera roams through genres, September 19 to 21

A decade in the making, dramatized song cycle blends tones of classic spaghetti westerns with soprano vocals and flamenco dance to create haunting vision

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MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 17, 2025Pi theatre, Pi Theatre, Vancouver Opera, VANCOUVER OPERA, VIFF Centre, VIFF
Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney's  Figures in Extinction wins Sky Arts Award
Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney's Figures in Extinction wins Sky Arts Award

Former Ballet BC head Emily Molnar praises artists in acceptance speech for Europe’s Nederlands Dans Theater and Complicité

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DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 17, 2025Crystal Pite, Emily Molnar, Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet BC, BALLET BC, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA
Firehall Arts Centre sounds off on how Canada Post's neighbourhood mail strike is hurting local arts organizations
Firehall Arts Centre sounds off on how Canada Post's neighbourhood mail strike is hurting local arts organizations

Theatre company spent over $13,000 on nearly 30,000 brochures that can no longer be delivered to Vancouver neighbourhoods, shares artistic producer Donna Spencer

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NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 17, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, FIREHALL, the Firehall, Canada Post
Vancouver Opera stages a darkly intriguing Rigoletto, October 25 to November 2
Vancouver Opera stages a darkly intriguing Rigoletto, October 25 to November 2

In partnership with Pacific Opera Victoria, new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s tragedy centres opulence, oppression, and revenge

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MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 17, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Opera, VANCOUVER OPERA, Pacific Opera Victoria
Comedian Modi, a Take This Waltz remount, and more as Chutzpah! Festival marks milestone 25th year
Comedian Modi, a Take This Waltz remount, and more as Chutzpah! Festival marks milestone 25th year

Other offerings span extravagant 8 Gays of Channukah – The Musical and stylistically diverse Shtetl Cabaret

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FESTS, COMEDY, THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 17, 2025chutzpah! festival, Chutzpah! Festival, Chutzpah Festival, Ne.Sans Opera and Dance
Theatre review: In Arts Club’s uncanny Doll’s House, currents beneath perfect surfaces still have power to shock
Theatre review: In Arts Club’s uncanny Doll’s House, currents beneath perfect surfaces still have power to shock

With its pared-back set and present-day rewording, Ibsen’s 150-year-old story of stifling social pressures takes on new edge

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THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 16, 2025Arts Club Theatre Company
Martin Sexton reimagines the Beatles' Abbey Road at BlueShore at CapU, October 7
Martin Sexton reimagines the Beatles' Abbey Road at BlueShore at CapU, October 7

One-man band takes on the iconic album before delving into originals

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MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 16, 2025Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark captures the inner turmoil of a man zeroed in on revenge. 

In a DanceHouse presentation, Guillaume Côté and Robert Lepage stage their tightly paced adaptation of Shakespeare’s story. 

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Top-notch cast assembles for staged reading of The Stranger at PAL Studio Theatre, March 13 to 15. 

Based on an early Agatha Christie story, the play focuses on a woman’s impulsive marriage to a charming mystery man. 

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Pyper retells folk tales to explore our relationship with AI and algorithms. 

Cyborg teenagers struggle with the same fears about technology that their human counterparts do in this visually spare, idea-charged production by UBC Theatre.

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Party atmosphere of Danceboy celebrates self-discovery and the joys of Bollywood. 

Multifaceted theatremakers Munish Sharma and Gavan Cheema bring an eight-year-long project to completion by working beyond stage conventions.

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Brahms X Radiohead finds common ground between classical music and alternative rock. 

Composer and conductor Steve Hackman has no fear of crossing stylistic boundaries. Read more at Stir. 

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