Assembly Hall
Vancouver Playhouse. No more performances
Assembly Hall, the latest collaboration between Jonathon Young and Crystal Pite once again yields strange but beautiful fruit.
Renée Sigouin in Assembly Hall. Credit: Michael Slobodian
Category: Review
Peace Country
Firehall Arts Centre to October 22, 2023
Fresh. Real. Relevant. Inclusive. That’s Peace Country, written by Pedro Chamale, and the Firehall Arts Centre’s 23/24 season opener. A rice & beans theatre production, presented by the Firehall, this is theatre that really matters. To us.
Angus Yam, Sofia Rodriguez, Manuela Sosa, Kaitlyn Yott and Sara Vickruck in Peace Country. Credit: Pedro Augusto Meza
Someone Like You
Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre to October 29, 2023
“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you”. Thus did my parents console me when some school yard bully called me names. What hogwash!
Steffanie Davis as Isabelle in Someone Like You. Credit: Moonrider Productions
Fairview
The Cultch Historic Theatre to October 8, 2023
If you’re up for a challenge and your brain can go two ways at once, check Fairview out.
Yasmin D’Oshun as Keisha in Fairview. Credit: Mark Halliday
Caído del Cielo: Fallen from Heaven
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Twelve hours later I am still exhilarated, wrung out and simply awestruck. Flamenco dancer Rocío Molina (Compañía Rocío Molina, Spain) will do that to you.
Rocío Molina. Credit: Simone Fratini
Little Shop of Horrors
Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to October 8, 2023
If you absolutely must do the horror, rom-com rock musical, Little Shop of Horrors, go BIG, really BIG. And that’s what the Arts Club is doing.
Tenaj Williams as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors. Credit: Moonrider Productions
The Last Wife
Jericho Arts Centre to October 1, 2023
Thank you, thank you, Sarah Rodgers, Artistic Director of United Players, for opening your 2023-2024 season with The Last Wife, a smart, witty, imaginative and thoroughly engaging 2-1/2 hours of superb live theatre.
Courtney Shields as Katherine Parr; Matthew Bissett as Henry VIII; and Mehdi Lamrini, as Thom Seymour, in The Last Wife.
GOBLIN:MACBETH
Bard on the Beach to September 24, 2023
Bard on the Beach had a runaway hit on its hands even before opening night. For the first time in Bard history, the entire run of a show – GOBLIN:MACBETH – sold out before the show even opened.
Credit: Terry Manzo. Image design: Emily Cooper
The Prom
Theatre Under the Stars until August 25, 2023
If you want to ramp up your experience of Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) take someone who has never been before.
Brianna Clark as Alyssa and Anna Pontin as Emma in The Prom. Credit: Emily Cooper
Henry V
Bard on the Beach until August 13, 2023
Director/adaptor Lois Anderson, working with set designer Amir Ofek, has a vision that involves bringing the audience into Henry V, not so much in an interactive way but by setting a mood, an atmosphere, that informs the play.
Kate Besworth as Henry V. Credit: Tim Matheson