Few families have had greater influence on the entertainment industry than the von Trapps. Their story has been immortalized on both stage and screen, serving as the inspiration for the original 1959 Broadway production—which won five Tony Awards and ran for more than 1,400 performances—and the 1965 film, which proved so popular that it screened worldwide for nearly five years straight. This winter, Vancouver’s Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage will be alive with The Sound of Music. The Arts Club is pleased to…

Hiroshi has only a year left to live. During that time, he must somehow get his daughter Maya to leave her bedroom, something that hasn’t happened in over half a decade. Maya is hikikomori—an extreme recluse—who has spent the last six years in her bedroom exploring Virtual Reality. Until one day, she meets a mysterious player online who challenges her to the ultimate quest: saving her own father’s life. How? By visiting the scariest place IRL (in real life), Suicide Forest.…

Western Gold Theatre is thrilled to present a fresh Caryl Churchill script, written in her late 70s, and meant to be played by four women in their senior years. It also marks the formal handover of Western Gold into the hands of Tanja Dixon-Warren, Artistic Director. She chose this script because “it is about four ordinary women who, much like the rest of us, are dealing with their lives in quite an ordinary way until something huge shifts and disrupts the…