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PuSh Festival: Win Tickets to Ryeberg Live

Comments 1 by Rebecca Bollwitt

The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is on now until February 2nd, presenting groundbreaking work in the live performing arts. The PuSh Festival expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original. The Festival showcases acclaimed international, Canadian and local artists and mixes them together with […]

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Broadway Across Canada 2014-2015 Season

by Rebecca Bollwitt

Broadway Across Canada has announced their line-up of touring musicals that they’ll be bringing to Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre in 2014 and 2015. Season Special: Wicked May 28th to June 29th, 2014 Back by “popular” demand. Variety calls Wicked “a cultural phenomenon,” and when it last played Vancouver in 2011, it broke box office records. […]

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Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet in Vancouver

Comments 69 by Rebecca Bollwitt

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is bringing the exquisite classical ballet, Romeo and Juliet, to a handful of Western Canadian cities this month including a stop in Vancouver. Photo: Amanda Green, Liang Xiang. Credit: Réjean Brandt Photography. Romeo and Juliet in Vancouver This enduring tale of love, longing and loss is choreographed by Rudi van Dantzig […]

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Ballet BC Presents Alberta Ballet’s The Nutcracker

by Michelle Kim

I’ve seen The Nutcracker a couple of times with my mother, whether performed on stage or on TV (it’s a mother-daughter Christmas tradition) and we both agree that the rendition by Alberta Ballet, now playing at the Queen Elizabeth theatre, choreographed by Edward Stripe with live music by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, is by far […]

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Blue Man Group in Vancouver Pre-Sale Code

by Rebecca Bollwitt

Broadway Across Canada presents Blue Man Group at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre coming up in March, 2014. Known for their wildly popular theatrical shows and concerts which combine comedy, music, and technology to produce a totally unique form of entertainment, the New York Times heralds the show as “One of the most delightful performance pieces […]

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