Canada’s best-known improvisor, Colin Mochrie, will team up with Vancouver TheatreSports League (“VTSL”) for three special shows this month at the Improv Centre on Granville Island. Colin is an alumnus of both VTSL and Toronto’s Second City comedy troupes and he was a regular on both the British and American versions of Whose Line Is […]

Bring the family to learn about the value of farming food while being entertained with a lively story, done as only Mortal Coil does, with puppets, stilts, music and actors. The Faerie Play takes place on The Sharing Farm in Richmond, that grows food for the Food Bank, and is a unique, fun, and creative […]

Win Tickets to The Arts Club’s Les Miserables – On stage at the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver until August 16, 2015

Bard on the Beach returns this summer, with the white tents at Vanier Park hosting the award-winning Shakespeare Festival from June 4th until September 26th. With such a spectacular location, they are bringing back their very special Bard-B-Q fireworks package with tickets to a show, dinner, and private fireworks viewing for the Honda Celebration of […]

In the fall of 2014 I sign on as the official blog partner of the Jessie Awards (“the Jessies”) which celebrate excellence in Vancouver theatre. Over the last few months I have profiled dozens of shows around town and tonight the season culminates with the awards show at the Commodore on Granville. I’ll be live […]

The 33rd annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards will be handed out on Monday, June 22nd in Vancouver and this year’s nominees were recently announced. From the organizers: “To say it was a busy theatre season is putting it mildly. There were an abundant number of dynamic productions that displayed the dedication, creativity and excellence of […]

Boca del Lupo presents Big Bad, a contemporary take on a fairytale for both children and adults commissioned by the Vancouver International Children’s Festival, at the Granville Island Revue Stage this month. Fairytales have an enduring appeal because they deal with universal themes and because they mean different things to us at different points in […]

CircusWest Performing Arts Society’s latest production, Circus of Oz, features talented performance students from the CirKids program, bringing L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz story to life in Vancouver. Circus of Oz will run from May 7th until May 10th, 2015 at the historic PNE Garden Auditorium, offering something for circus fans of all ages. […]

There’s something very special about going to the theatre in Vancouver and something even more spectacular happens when that theatre experience takes place seaside, at sunset, on a gloriously warm summer night. Bard on the Beach Summer 2015 returns this summer, with the white tents at Vanier Park hosting the award-winning Shakespeare Festival from June […]

Gateway Theatre presents Out of a Dream, a new revue with songs from all 11 Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals including The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, The King and I, Carousel, South Pacific and Cinderella from April 9th to April 25th. Eva Tavares, Peter Jorgensen, Katie Murphy, Jenny Anderson. Photo credit Emily Cooper. In association with […]