Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) to May 25, 2025
We are born. We die. It’s all a mystery. And there is, if you’re lucky, much joy and lots of laughter along the way. Remarkably, Here We Go is often wryly funny. I loved this Western Gold Theatre production.
David Bloom, Kate Robbins, Peihwen J. Tai, Richard Newman, Rosy Frier-Dryden and Bernard Cuffling in Here We Go. Credit: Javier Sotres
Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to May 25, 2025
Casey and Diana, written by Canadian playwright Nick Green, is a reminder of the past – specifically the 80s and 90s – when the HIV/AIDS crisis was sweeping the planet and theatres were producing a flood of AIDS-related plays.
Lindsey Angell, as Diana, and Damien Atkins, as Thomas, in Casey and Diana. Credit: Moonrider Productions
York Theatre to May 11, 2025
Dance Nation, presented by The Search Party (Vancouver) and masterfully directed by Mindy Parfitt, is a first-rate production of Clare Barron’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist for Drama (2019).
Russian Hall (600 Campbell Avenue) to April 19, 2025
Dave Mott has a lot to say about the state of the world judging from his pre-show remarks on opening night of the world premiere of Dead Drone, Mott’s playwriting debut.
Poster credit: Jesse White
Historic Theatre at the Cultch to April 6, 2025
The Cultch invites you to embrace Niall McNeil’s distinctive way of expressing himself and find the poetry within it. I saw it. I embraced it. I found the poetry.
Niall McNeil as The Master in Beauty and the Beast: My Life. Credit: Tim Matheson.
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
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.
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
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
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