Creating a different kind of art above The Penthouse
While the exotic entertainment continues downstairs at Vancouver’s infamous Penthouse Night Club, art of a different kind is being created upstairs in the Tyrant...
From Chicago to Vancouver: a conversation with Marci T. House
Lysistrata, Aristophanes’ outrageous 411 BC comedy has been given a wild makeover in Lois Anderson’s adaptation at this year’s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival.
Filled...
Theatre review: Guys and Dolls may be creaky, but it sounds divine
The musical Guys and Dolls may be a little creaky, but you would be too at age 68.
If you can get past this throwback...
Live with the company of Guys & Dolls
Things may be cooling off outside, but at Granville Island's Waterfront Theatre things are just heating up as Fighting Chance Productions presents the classic...
Vancouver audiences can’t get enough of three summer shows
It looks like Vancouver audiences can’t seem to get enough of three summer theatre offerings as both the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival...
Theatre Wire season is a mix of Fringe favourites and indie theatre
A project from the Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society, producers of the annual Vancouver Fringe Festival, the Theatre Wire 2018-2019 season is a mix of...
Theatre review: Lysistrata is fractured fun
While the company of Bard on the Beach’s latest foray into a contemporary adaptation does a marvelous job of bringing the Greek comedy Lysistrata...
Theatre review: The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a gripping (yet hopeless) tale
Ensemble Theatre Company’s 6th annual Repertory Festival features Martin McDonagh’s Tony Award-winning play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane. This one does not disappoint.
Fueled by...
Rumble Theatre and Arts Club Theatre Company are big winners at this year’s professional...
Vancouver’s Rumble Theatre and Arts Club Theatre Company were the big winners at this year’s Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.
Known simply as “The Jessies”, the...
Theatre review: 42nd Street is tapalicious
One may be forgiven in thinking the musical 42nd Street, currently playing at Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl, is from a different era. But it...
