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Theatre review: Metro Theatre's pitch-perfect Lend Me a Tenor hits all the right notes

A louche opera star brings comedic chaos to a Cleveland hotel in Ken Ludwig’s Tony Award winner

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 6, 2025Metro Theatre

Rumble Theatre and ITSAZOO Productions present Lucy Prebble's The Effect, November 7 to 22

Dark, timely thriller from the Emmy-winning writer of Succession explores passion, power, and pharmaceutical control

Pacific Theatre's Wakey, Wakey remount offers profound meditations on life, October 15 to November 2

Will Eno’s powerful play garnered five Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations with its Canadian premiere in 2021

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGEmily LythOctober 6, 2025Pacific Theatre, Will Eno

Theatre review: Outside Mullingar is a gently restrained tale of two Irish families

Jericho Arts Centre’s production deals with grief, grievances, and lives unlived, but the dramedy remains surprisingly buoyant

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 6, 2025theatre review, Jericho Arts Centre

Justen LeRoy's Lay Me Down in Praise continues at Surrey Art Gallery and UrbanScreen this October

Three-channel film exhibition asks what the Earth sounds like, drawing on Black environmentalism, resistance, and liberation

Music review: Mad Professor brought earth-shaking dub bass to the Chan Centre

The British producer was joined by Vancouver visual artist Saghi Ehteshamzadeh for a show that went beyond the expected Massive Attack hits

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 6, 2025VIFF, Chan Centre EXP, Chan Centre

National Film Board doubles down on defining what it means to be Canadian for an “elbows up” era

Attending VIFF, NFB chair Suzanne Guèvremont has a new strategic plan that strives to reach out to the next generation

SCREEN, FESTS, NEWSJanet SmithOctober 3, 2025NFB, National Film Board

Firehall Arts Centre stages profound dance-driven piece Myokine, October 30 to November 1

Work by Anne Plamondon Productions is centred on the molecules released by the muscles during physical effort

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 3, 2025Partner Content, Firehall Arts Centre

In Eternal Gestures, Alvin Erasga Tolentino embodies multifaceted relationships to the land

Co.ERASGA world premiere features commissions by three Indigenous women choreographers: Starr Muranko, Margaret Grenier, and Michelle Olson

DANCE, CULTUREEmily LythOctober 3, 2025Co.ERASGA, Alvin Erasga Tolentino

Chet Doxas makes magic with CapU Jazz ensembles, October 24 at BlueShore at CapU

The Montreal-bred saxophonist, praised for his versatility, is now a prolific performer in New York

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 2, 2025Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU

Review: Circa's Wolf kicks acrobatics into artful hyperspeed

At the intimate York Theatre, honed Aussie performers mix feral energy with a new level of circus sophistication

DANCE, THEATREJanet SmithOctober 2, 2025CIrca, THE CULTCH, York Theatre, circus, the Cultch, The Cultch, Homepage feature

Vancouver Civic Theatres launches 2025-26 National Geographic Live season, October 15

Tree canopy ecologist Nalini Nadkarni leads audiences up into the clouds to see the fascinating world of Costa Rican branches with From Roots to Canopy

SCREEN, THEATREStir VancouverOctober 2, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Civic Theatres, VCT, National Geographic

Martin Sexton pares Beatles classics down to the essentials for his Abbey Road Show, October 7

The Fab Four’s most-celebrated album was a formative influence on the veteran American singer-songwriter who’s headed to the BlueShore at CapU

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 2, 2025Martin Sexton, Blueshore at CapU

Vancouver Cantata Singers opens the 2025-26 season with In Paradisum, November 1

Program revolving around Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor explores the multifaceted concept of paradise

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 2, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Cantata Singers

Drummer Ches Smith plays 21st-century fusion with his band Clone Row

The improvisation-heavy jazz quartet melds Afrocentric rhythms with electronically warped electric guitars

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 1, 2025Coastal Jazz, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, jazz

VIFF 2025 reviews: Influencer-culture takedowns, sword-and-sorcery reboots, family tragedies, and more

Quick takes on Dracula, Idiotka, Akashi, and Ma—Cry of Silence, plus documentaries about one family’s scattered heritage and the true cost of global capitalism

SCREENStir VancouverOctober 1, 2025VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, Homepage feature

Ballet BC opens 2025-26 season at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with TRILOGY, November 6 to 8

Triple bill includes return of global sensation BOLERO X, Medhi Walerski’s SWAY, and world premiere from Italy’s Sofia Nappi

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 1, 2025Partner Content, Ballet BC, BALLET BC

Upintheair Theatre and What Lab take a quantum leap with The Array: Less Than Zero

The three-night showcase explores science-fiction themes through experimental performances

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 1, 2025Upintheair Theatre, Theatre

VIFF documentaries sketch in the history of B.C. art icons

The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes reveals quiet life of a master who avoided spotlight; The Art of Adventure tracks a young Robert Bateman’s journey with Bristol Foster across the world in a Land Rover