Bard on the Beach (Vanier Park) to September 21, 2024
Look out, Shakespeare! This production could be called Twelfth Night: The Musical. Director Diana Donnelly, composer Veda Hille, musical director Anton Lipovetsky (keyboards/guitar and Feste) and Charlie Gallant (Sebastian/electric guitar) have played fast and loose with your Twelfth Night or What You Will.

The Twelfth Night company. Centre: Anton Lipovetsky. Set design: Pam Johnson. Lighting design: Sophie Tang. Costume design: Mara Gottler. Credit: Tim Matheson

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The Vancity Culture Lab at the Cultch to June 23, 2024
Medicine works best when it nearly kills you – or so the saying goes.  This Medicine won’t kill you and maybe it will ring alarm bells about what director Richard Wolfe says, “what can happen to those who are not like Other People, those who are damaged by the world around them – and then forgotten.”

Nyiri Karakas (Mary 1), Jay Clift (John) and  Genevieve Fleming (Mary 2) in Medicine. Credit: Emily Cooper

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PAL Studio Theatre to June 23, 2024
You can call Elizabeth a “super senior” at well over a hundred years old, but fergawdsake, don’t call her Lizzie or Liz or worst of all “dear”. Elizabeth, played by Super Senior playwright Kathryn Shaw, will turn her caustic wit on you and verbally flay you if you do.

Kathryn Shaw as Elizabeth in Super Seniors. Credit: Javier Sotres

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Jericho Arts Centre to June 23, 2024
Under the artistic direction of Sarah Rodgers, United Players (in association with Touchstone Theatre) closes its terrific 2023-2024 season with Dorothy Dittrich’s sung-through musical When We Were Singing.

Front: Rachel Kent (Jenny) and Nevada Banks (Abby). Rear:  Michael Briganti (Les) and Viviana Renteria (Belinda) in When We Were Singing. Credit: Nancy Caldwell

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Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to June 30, 2024
Guys and Dolls is an oldie but a goodie given new life by director Ashlie Corcoran and a super-talented ensemble of some two dozen singers and dancers plus live music under the direction of Ken Cormier.

The ‘Guys’ in Guys and Dolls with Josh Epstein as Nathan Detroit (centre). Credit: Moonrider Productions

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At Jericho Arts Centre to May 19, 2024
Note to aspiring playwrights: If you want to know how it’s done, go and see Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City at Jericho Arts Centre, directed by Joan Bryans, artistic director of Vital Spark Theatre.

Liam McCulley as Skinner, Geneva Perkins as Lily and  and Isaac Andrew as Michael in The Freedom of the City. Credit: Nancy Caldwell

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The Cultch to May 12, 2024
The world premiere of a new Canadian play is cause for celebration and Homecoming by Kamila Sediego is not only that but it also gives a voice to Filipino Canadians, an under-represented part of our community.

Carmela Sison as Tess and Rhea Casido as Ana in Homecoming. Credit: Moonrider Photography

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Studio 16 to May 12, 2024
Is truth negotiable? That’s the question posed by The Lifespan of a FACT written by Jeremy Karaken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell based on the non-fiction book of the same name by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal whose real-life debate the book and the play explores.

Ben Immanuel as John, Loretta Walsh as Emily and Tal Shulman as Jim in The Lifespan of a FACT. Credit: Shimon Karmel

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Firehall Arts Centre to April 28, 2024
When there is a split second of complete silence after the curtain falls, followed by applause, you know something has taken place in the theatre. Heartbreak, heartache and healing is where playwright Métis playwright Keith Barker takes us in This Is How We Got Here.

Tasha Faye Evans as Lucille and Gordon Patrick White as Paul in This Is How We Got Here. Credit: Sarah Race Photography

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York Theatre to April 28, 2024
First Nations stories by First Nations writers are appearing more and more often on stages across the country and now Alberta playwright/performer/politician Tai Amy Grauman brings the story of Métis women to the York Theatre.

Tai Amy Grauman as Iskwewo in You used to call me Marie. Credit: Emily Cooper

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