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Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about The Phantom of the Opera, screened with a live score to mark 100 years

Lon Chaney’s scary makeup, a vintage pipe organ, and a score by Andrew Downing bring eerie atmosphere to the Orpheum show

The Search Party brings Dance Nation to the Anvil Theatre, November 13 to 23

Play by Clare Barron centres on a group of pre-teen competitive dancers who must weigh what they’re willing to sacrifice in order to win

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 21, 2025Partner Content, Anvil Theatre, The Search Party

Theatre review: Fire Never Dies reveals the glamour and grit of Tina Modotti’s life as artist, muse, and activist

Written and directed by Carmen Aguirre, Electric Company Theatre’s new production hums with the complex, revolutionary rhythms of 20th-century art and politics

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 21, 2025the Cultch, Electric Company Theatre, Homepage feature

Ballet BC Annex brings world premieres by Alexis Fletcher and Vanessa Goodman to the Shadbolt Centre, November 9

Junior company features eight dancers training with Modus Operandi and Arts Umbrella Dance Company

The Narrow Group and Emily Carr University make shortlist for Granville Island arts and innovation hub

Also in the running to transform the historic 125,000-square-foot building is nonprofit organization 221A

NEWS, CULTUREJanet SmithOctober 21, 2025granville island, Granville Island, Emily Carr University, ECUAD, 221A, The Narrow Group

Saxophonist Chet Doxas brings innovation as performer and composer to CapU jazz ensembles, October 24

The Montreal-born musician has already had a storied career, but his star continues to rise

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 20, 2025jazz, CapU, Blueshore at CapU

Gordon Grdina's Ru'ya featuring Ghalia Benali bridges cultures and genres at Christ Church Cathedral, November 4

BlueShore at CapU and New Old World Music Society present the global new music ensemble

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 20, 2025Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU

Theatre review: Gateway audiences go on puzzle-solving adventure with Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson—Apt. 2B

Playwright Kate Hamill’s witty, gender-bent take on classic detective tales cites Star Wars as readily as The Hound of the Baskervilles

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 20, 2025Gateway Theatre, Homepage feature

The Cultch stages Theatre Replacement’s East Van Panto: West Van Story, November 19 to January 4

Chelsea Haberlin is directing this wacky story of a romance that unites a West Van curling crew and an East Van gang

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 20, 2025Partner Content, the Cultch, THE CULTCH, The Cultch

Whimsy abounds in CTORA Theatre's James and the Giant Peach, to November 9

Roald Dahl’s story comes to life onstage with huge insect puppets designed by Amica Pasquale

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 17, 2025CTORA Theatre, CTORA

Kinesthesia: Body as Form celebrates the power of dance at Surrey Art Gallery, October 25 to December 14

New exhibition and performance series opens with WTM / What’s the Move? art party featuring Lucy M. May, ĀNANDAM dance theatre, and more

Daniel Léveillé's Amour, acide et noix finds a staying power in skin and sinew

At DanceHouse, the Montreal artist resurrects a piece whose stripped-down expression is still touring after 23 years

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 17, 2025DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Between Breaths makes its Western Canada debut at the Firehall Arts Centre, November 12 to 23

Artistic Fraud production draws on the true story of Newfoundland’s Dr. Jon Lien, also known as “The Whale Man”

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 17, 2025Partner Content, Firehall Arts Centre

Vancouver Chamber Choir returns from the Yukon to perform True North, October 24

Nature-inspired program includes compositions by Veljo Tormis, R. Murray Schafer, and Nico Muhly

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 16, 2025Vancouver Chamber Choir

France's Illyes Ferfera Quartet performs at Alliance Française Vancouver, November 13

The concert is part of the group’s Canadian tour of Tawazûn, its debut album rooted in Algerian melodies and energetic jazz

Canadian soprano Sarah Dufresne finds Gilda’s strength in Vancouver Opera’s Rigoletto

Rising star embraces the complexity of Verdi’s tragic daughter figure, and follows with another debut in Fauré’s Requiem with the VSO

Metro Theatre presents Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, November 7 to 29

Playwrights Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon have crafted a sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice full of comedy and heartache

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 16, 2025Partner Content, Metro Theatre

Bilingual Montreal band Bibi Club prefers to perform without a safety net

The duo of Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque likes to keep an element of onstage tension at its shows

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 16, 2025centre culturel francohone vancouver

The Cinematheque hosts Ukrainian Poetic Cinema: Rebuilding National Identity series, October 23 to 29

Films on offer include Yurii Illienko’s The Eve of Ivan Kupalo and Borys Ivchenko’s The Lost Letter

SCREENStir VancouverOctober 16, 2025Partner Content, The CInematheque, The Cinematheque

Vacant Lot sees a married couple contemplate their fragile existence in the universe

At the Firehall Arts Centre, Hiromoto Ida’s production based on the Japanese play Sarachi weaves together elements of contemporary dance and theatre

THEATRE, DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 15, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, FIREHALL

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