Theatre

In new Electric Company Theatre play, premiering at the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, real grief over his sister mixes with fictional elements and age-old myth

The touring production returns to Vancouver after seven years, featuring a 14-metre rain curtain and giant treadmills powered by 28 car batteries

This time out, the Nunsense sisters produce a chaotic Christmas special for cable-access television

Willow Lewmos directs the darkly comedic solo show as part of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

Immersive theatre experience arrives just in time for spooky season, featuring freaky performances and mischievous sewer rats

With plenty of laughter, improv-comedy veterans Naomi Snieckus and Matt Baram candidly explore loss and how we attach meaning to objects

Award-winning filmmaker discusses his mission to highlight the unmatched diversity of wild cats in India

Hilarious production is bursting with outrageous innuendos and queer chaos

Actor Steffanie Davis plays three roles in the Arts Club production, including the gleefully unhinged, bug-munching Renfield

Running in repertory, two plays shine light on what people don’t always see

Keely Rois O’Brien’s season opener at Gateway Theatre has a simple message: if you don’t know how to say it, say it with cake 

Governor General Award–winning play about a father and daughter tells of loss and redemption, humanity, and survival

Riddled with language barriers and discrimination, the rice & beans theatre and Gokko Creative Society production grapples with the possibility of unity and acceptance

In a comedy by North Vancouver’s Peter Zednik, exes rekindle their connection, exploring what it means to come out of the closet at any age—and at any cost

Upintheair Theatre stages its latest installment, with What Lab, of a project that challenges local artists to respond to timely topics in science, nature, and astrophysics

A patchwork wall of TV screens, fun nods to found-footage horror, and other genre touches heighten allegorical messages of queer self-acceptance in Touchstone Theatre and Glitch Theatre show

At Anvil Theatre, Sasha Wilson’s play examines the story of accused killer and “folk villain” Lizzie Borden through drama, humour, and murder ballads

In this rollicking production, a chiseled hero must save the city from the scheming God of the No-Fun-Derworld

Maryth Gilroy and Karen Hamm direct Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Donald Margulies’s drama at the Jericho Arts Centre

The two-hander starring real-life married couple Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus takes a comedic look at the things we choose to keep and why

Set during the First World War, production draws inspiration from true events

Rumble Theatre and ITSAZOO coproduction digs into Succession writer Lucy Prebble’s critically acclaimed play as it builds unease along with the dosage

Tony and Grammy Award–winning actor shares deeply personal, politically urgent, and darkly funny performance and conversation

Showcase of sci-fi and experimental theatre features performances by Jarin Schexnider, Plastik Theatriks, and more

At The Cultch, strong acting and a sharp script that’s packed with memorable lines give life to a play that’s hit an intergenerational nerve

Arts Club Theatre Company production infuses the holidays with humour and humanity

Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize, this quietly powerful play explores cultural displacement with warmth, humour, and piercing insight

Coproduction by Comédie-Française (Paris) and Les songes turbulents (Montréal) explores the passage of time in post-Victorian England

Director Mayumi Yoshida takes on challenges of translation in Hideki Noda’s darkly comedic play about people struggling with mistrust as they try to understand one another across linguistic gulfs

B.C. contenders for Canada’s largest theatre prize join finalists from Montreal and Calgary