Firehall Arts Centre to January 18, 2025
Dancer/choreographer Joe Laughlin’s overwhelming joy in the body, in music, in movement, is infectious. And in a time of unrest and anxiety, to see someone so completely in love with dance or life – or anything – is a gift.
Joe Laughlin in I Remember… Credit: Michael Slobodian
Arts Club Granville Island Stage to December 29, 2024
The heart and soul of Miracle on 34th Street really rests on Kris Kringle, and Kevin McNulty is all eye-twinkling charm without overdoing it.
The cast of Miracle on 34th Street with Kevin McNulty, as Kris Kringle (centre). Credit: Moonrider Productions
York Theatre to January 5, 2025
Did I go to the opening of the East Van Panto: Robin Hood last night? “Oh, yes I did!” And was I disappointed? “Oh, no I wasn’t!”
East Van Panto: Robin Hood. The cast. Credit: Emily Cooper
The Cultch to November 24, 2024
Finally, here’s a play that’s mysterious, riveting, enigmatic, literary and layered. A play about the intersection between life, art and reality.
Jacob Leonard as Christopher and Kerry Sandomirsky as Bella Baird in The Sound Inside. Credit: David Cooper
PAL Studio Theatre to November 24, 2024
If you’ve never heard of Tom Crean (CREE-an), you’re not alone. Unlike explorers Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, Crean didn’t keep a diary and so his exploits are only known through the diaries of Scott, Shackleton and other Antarctic explorers all of whom wrote of Irish seaman Crean’s courage, perseverance and high spirits.
Aidan Dooley as Tom Crean in Tom Crean – Discovering Antarctica: Heroic Tales of Scott, Crean & Shackleton
Firehall Arts Centre to November 3, 2024
It seemed at first a strange pairing: The Fugitives, an award-winning Canadian folk music group, and the story of Vimy Ridge, often called “the war that made Canada”. But a more sensitive, thoughtful, deeply personal look at what really went on at Vimy is hard to imagine.
The Fugitives: Brendan McLeod, Christopher Suen, Carly Frey and Adrian Glynn
Jericho Arts Centre to November 3, 2024
If you’ve never seen Billy Bishop Goes to War, here’s your chance to see this 1978 Canadian musical written by iconic Canadian writer John MacLachlan Gray and iconic Canadian actor Eric Peterson.
Pacific Theatre to October 6, 2024
I’m so grateful to Pacific Theatre for this Sticks and Stones Theatre guest production of Middletown by Will Eno. Sometimes – with some exceptions – it feels like a drought of exciting, provocative, innovative theatre in this town. Now, finally, here’s something to wrap our heads and hearts around.
Poster Design: Yvonne Fabian
Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to October 20, 2024
My guest was vibrating with excitement throughout Jersey Boys, the Arts Club’s 2024-25 season opener at the Stanley. It was her music, her time, and she knew all the words to all the songs.
Jason Sakaki as Bob Gaudio, Elliot Lazar (Frankie Valli), Darren Martens (Tommy DeVito) and Tanner Zerr (Nick Massi). Credit: Moonrider Productions
Jericho Arts Centre to September 29, 2024
Hands down, Chickens will be the goofiest 2024-25 season opener anywhere in the city. Written by award-winning Canadian actor and playwright Lucia Frangione back when she was a student at Alberta’s Rosebud School of the Arts back in the late 80s or early 90s, Chickens is so ‘country’ you can almost smell the hay and the chicken shit.
Axe-wielder, Jennifer Suratos. From centre front: Joel Garner, David Johnston, Aunya Jayde, Dustin Freeland and Cassie Unger. Credit: Nancy Caldwell