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New Mimosa String Quintet goes big on Boccherini at Early Music Vancouver

Acclaimed cellist Christina Mahler explains how she was captured by musical and technical innovations of the unjustly overlooked 18th-century composer

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 23, 2025Early Music Vancouver, Mimosa String Quintet

Surrey Civic Theatres presents award-winning musician Jeremy Dutcher at Surrey Arts Centre, November 14

Two-time Polaris Music Prize–winner combines traditional Wolastoqey melodies and daring orchestral compositions with remarkable tenor vocals

Theatre review: Pacific Theatre’s remount of Wakey, Wakey feels like offbeat celebration of simply being present

With the company’s own circumstances in flux, this quirkily poignant meditation from a realm between life and death takes on new resonance

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 23, 2025Pacific Theatre

Carousel Theatre for Young People hosts Parents are a Drag, November 22 and 23

Zee Zee Theatre production is a dress-up spectacular starring local drag queens Peach Cobblah and Isolde N. Barron

Vancouver Cantata Singers’ In Paradisum reaches for transcendence, November 1

Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor joins other works that search for spiritual heights

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 22, 2025Vancouver Cantata Singers, choral

OUROFEST brings electrifying street dance to Massey Theatre, November 14 and 15

Mainstage performances presented by OURO Collective include Greece’s TARANTISM, German-American B-boy RubberLegz, and more

DANCE, FESTSStir VancouverOctober 22, 2025Partner Content, Ouro Collective, New Works, OUROFEST, Massey Theatre

Stir Q&A: Shelter tackles homelessness through art at Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

Radix Theatre project helps put paint supplies in the hands of marginalized artists whose works will show on bus shelters and at November 4 art sale

Western Front highlights Basque artist Itziar Okariz's Dream Diary and Ocean Breath, October 30

Two live performance works explore language, sound, and the body

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverOctober 22, 2025Partner Content, Western Front, Itziar Okariz

In Anne Plamondon’s Myokine, seven dancers serve as messengers of hope

Montreal choreographer’s post-pandemic piece, inspired by a type of molecule secreted by moving bodies, comes to the Firehall Arts Centre

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 22, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, FIREHALL, Anne Plamondon, Homepage feature

Royal Winnipeg Ballet unveils 2026 B.C. tour culminating in Vancouver with Carmina Burana and T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods

Exhilarating double bill featuring a virtuosic classic and a historic West Coast premiere lands here February 9 and 10, 2026

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 22, 2025Partner Content, Royal Winnipeg Ballet

Through musical connection, Luke Wallace conjures hope at the Kay Meek Arts Centre, October 22 to 24

The veteran folk songwriter mixes musical warmth and political urgency to forge new approaches to the world’s biggest shared challenges

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 21, 2025Kay Meek Arts Centre

Urban Ink hosts the sixth annual TRANSFORM Festival at the Vancouver Playhouse starting November 6

Presented in collaboration with The Cultch, multidisciplinary event features an all-star lineup of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists

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