Arts Club Granville Island Stage to January 24, 2026
Nostalgia is everywhere at Christmas and theatre companies unabashedly produce shows that speak to simpler, happier times. Louisa May Alcott’s novel, Little Women, set back in the mid 1880s and adapted for stage by American playwright Lauren M. Gunderson, presents a simpler, happier time in the USA.

Left to right: Ming Hudson ( Beth), Kaitlyn Yott (Amy), Erin Ormond (Marmee), Kate Besworth (Jo) and Elizabeth Barrett (Meg) in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Credit: Moonrider Productions 

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Jericho Arts Centre to December 21, 2025
United Players, the little-theatre-company-that-could, has been punching over its weight for years – but even more so under Sarah Rodgers’ artistic direction. This production, directed by Rodgers, is thoroughly charming, thoroughly delightful.

The cast of The Cricket on the Hearth from left to right: Pippa Cochrane, Toby Verchere, Cassie Unger, Emma Houghton, Charlie Deagnon, Gordon Law (tucked in behind Deagnon), Vincent Keats and December Goodkey. Credit: Nancy Caldwell 

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York Theatre to January 4, 2026
What’s so good about it? Everything. But off the top it’s a chance to see the ever-young Dawn Petten as both baggy-pants Spartacus and Boberta Rainy, a villainous, androgynous, megadeveloper.

Dawn Petten as Boberta Rainy and Spartacus in East Side Panto: West Van Story. Credit: Emily Cooper Photography

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Firehall Arts Centre to November 23, 2025
While there are loads of heart-stopping films and videos of whale rescues, how does a small theatre company tell Jon Lien’s tale on a small stage? Ingenuity. Creativity. And lots and lots of heart.

Steve O’Connell as Jon Lien in Between Breaths. Credit: Ritchie Perez

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Stanley BFL Canada Stage to January 4, 2026
The show is beautiful and it will probably be at the top of every little girl’s Christmas wish list. Grownups can go online and read a synopsis so they’re not completely confused.  Alternately, they can just “Let It Go”, sit back and enjoy how pretty it all is.

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Jericho Arts Centre to November 16, 2025
Playwright Rick Dobran is one multi-talented guy: former server and restaurant manager, stage and film actor, tattoo artist and playwright. The collages that hang in the Jericho Arts Centre lobby are his creations, too. There’s probably lots more; I have the feeling this guy packs a lot of living in.

Rick Dobran as Joe and  Mersiha Musovic as Lily in The Best Restaurant in the World. Ever. Credit: Andrew Fraser

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Progress Lab (1422 William) to November 22, 2025
This might be the strangest love story you’ve ever seen – if it is a love story.

Andy Kalirai as Tristan, Paige Louter as Connie in The Effect. Credit: Chelsey Stuyt

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Firehall Arts Centre to October 25, 2025
Based on the Japanese play Sarachi (Vacant Lot), by contemporary Japanese theatre artist Shogo Ota, Vacant Lot is a hybrid dance/theatre piece at the Firehall for only two more performances.

Hiromoto Ida and Lindsay Clague in Vacant Lot. Credit: Carlo Alcos

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Pacific Theatre to November 2, 2025
“Wakey, wakey/Rise and shine” – or so we greet the dawn. We all know the time will come when we – every one of us – will neither wake nor rise again. But Wakey, Wakey, written by American playwright Will Eno, is surprisingly funny and even more surprisingly, uplifting.

Craig Erickson as Guy in Wakey, Wakey. Credit: Chelsea Stuyt

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The Cultch to October 26. 2025
The world premiere of a new play is cause for celebration and the opening night audience at Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project celebrated with an immediate, noisy-bordering-on-raucous, standing O.

Melissa Oei, Marianna Zouzoulas and Praneet Akilla in Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project. Credit: David Cooper

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