The Audience

At The Stanley until February 26, 2017
Don’t go to The Audience if you think the Royal Family is irrelevant. Do go if you think, in changing times, having a stalwart, gracious, well-spoken, committed, dog-loving Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, is something worth holding onto.

Anna Galvin (centre) as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience. Credit: David Cooper

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Odysseo

At White Big Top, extended until March 5, 2017
Bring out all the superlatives that can be mustered: Odyssey by Cavalia is awesome, spectacular, fabulous, beautiful, heart stopping, magical and ethereal.

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The City and The City

The City and The City

At the Russian Hall until February 5, 2017
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Posted January 31, 2017

When two of Vancouver’s most experimental theatre companies – Upintheair theatre and The Only Animal – collaborate, you can expect the results to be ‘out there’.

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As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying

At Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre until February 12, 2017
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Posted January 28, 2017

I don’t remember ever thinking William Faulkner spun good yarns.

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Sunday in the Park with George

Sunday in the Park with George

At Jericho Arts Centre until February 12, 2017

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Posted January 22, 2017

After seeing the off-Broadway premiere of Sunday in the Park with George in July 1983, composer Leonard Bernstein sent a note to Stephen Sondheim calling the show “brilliant, deeply conceived, canny, magisterial.

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By Heart

By Heart

By Heart: PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

At Performance Works

January 20 and 21

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Posted  January 20, 2017

Portuguese playwright and actor Tiago Rodrigues evokes disparate writers – Shakespeare, George Steiner, Ray Bradbury, Joseph Brodsky, Boris Pasternak and others – while teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30 to ten volunteers.

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The Fighting Season

The Fighting Season

At The Cultch until January 21, 2017

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Posted January 13, 2017

There’s no good season for war; broken bodies, broken hearts and broken minds are shipped back to their loved ones in spring, summer, fall and winter.

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Year In Review

Year In Review

January 2016 kicked off with the effervescent Blackbird Theatre production of The Rivals. Everyone’s favourite character in this 18th century comedy is Mrs. Malaprop and, almost bursting out of her bodice, actor Gabrielle Rose showed once again her spectacular dramatic versatility.

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Mary Poppins: The Broadway Musical

At The Stanley. Held over until January 8, 2017
If your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews have all grown up, take the child-you-used-to-be to Mary Poppins: The Broadway Musical directed by the Arts Club’s artistic managing director Bill Millerd.

Kayla James as Mary Poppins. Credit: David Cooper

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Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol

At Jericho Arts Centre until December 18, 2016
“Jacob Marley was dead.” In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol we know that Ebenezer Scrooge’s business partner is “most sincerely dead” but we don’t know why he comes back on Christmas Eve to haunt Scrooge’s bedchamber. What’s in it for Jacob Marley?

Linden Banks as Jacob Marley in Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol

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