We Are Boy Band

Studio 58 to April 6, 2025
WOW. The performance area explodes with white-on-white performers, busting moves, looking fantastic.

Part of the Ensemble, We Are Boy Band. Credit: Moonrider Productions

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Behind the Moon

Vancity Culture Lab at the Cultch to April 6, 2025
What courage it takes to leave one’s homeland and family behind as Ayub (Praneet Akilla) does in Anosh Irani’s Behind the Moon.

Zahf Paroo as Jalal and Praneet Akilla as Ayub in Behind the Moon. Credit: Chelsey Stuyt.

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Home Deliveries

At Jericho Arts Centre to April 13, 2025
The first forty-five minutes of Home Deliveries went by so fast, I could hardly believe it when the intermission lights came up. I was pretty sure where it was going, I was having a good time and I was happy to go along for the ride.

Stefania Indelicato as Violet and Aurora Chan as Florence in Home Deliveries. Credit: Nancy Caldwell

 

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How to Disappear Completely

The Cultch Historic Theatre to March 22, 2025
I saw the first production of Itai Erdal’s How to Disappear Completely at the 2011 Chutzpah! Festival and I was curious about how the show might have changed over time.

Itai Erdal (with a photo of his mother, Mery Erdal). Credit: The Chop Theatre

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A Taste of Hong Kong

Vancity Culture Lab at The Cultch to March 15, 2025
With war still raging in Ukraine and an on-again-off-again trade war imposed on us by President Donald Trump, it’s easy to forget about what’s happening in Hong Kong.

Photo credit: Chelsey Stuyt

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Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer

York Theatre to March 16, 2025
Not given to laughing out loud very often in the theatre, I – and everyone else – laughed a lot at playwright/director Kevin Loring’s Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer on opening night at the York Theatre.

Gordon Patrick White as Little Red in Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer. Credit: Trudie Lee

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