Theatre review: What We’re up Against shows there’s no expiry date on sexism
While set in the 90s, the brutality of Theresa Rebeck's What We’re Up Against feels as fresh as word of another Weinstein allegation. The performances...
Theatre review: The Birds & The Bees (and that messy thing called love)
Following the success of its production of Mark Crawfords' Bed & Breakfast last year, the Arts Club Theatre Company presents another of the Canadian...
“Company” is moving into the neighbourhood
Following the success of their production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in a storefront in Gastown, Vancouver’s Raincity Theatre is...
Theatre review: Adieu Monsieur Haffmann reminds us of our inherent humanity and gives us...
Théâtre la Seizième has an inspiring habit of presenting great theatre. Their first offering of the new season, Adieu Monsieur Haffmann, is no exception....
Theatre review: Antony and Cleopatra does drag
Part tragedy, part camp drag show, with a little 300 thrown in for good measure, the Studio 58 production of Antony and Cleopatra may...
Theatre review: The Shipment is unflinching
The Shipment is a pyre masquerading as a theatre show. In it, the cast piles high the mass of assumptions, stereotypes, jokes, and lies...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Henry V will headline Bard on the Beach’s 2020...
Having just wrapped its 30th anniversary season, Vancouver’s annual summer Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival has announced a 2020 season which will be...
Theatre review: A Thousand Splendid Suns finds light in the darkness
There is a moment, deep into the second act of A Thousand Splendid Suns, that illustrates the power of theatre. An often elusive communal...
Theatre review: Rent twenty years later
There is no denying the impact Jonathan Larsan’s Rent had when it first made its move to Broadway in 1996. Audiences couldn’t get enough...
Rent-heads unite as 20th anniversary tour of iconic musical offers $25 rush tickets
With the 20th anniversary production tour of the musical Rent set to open at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre this week, Broadway Across Canada has...