Hidden
At UBC Botanical Garden until November 19, 2016
When October rolls around, it’s suddenly all about ghouls, ghosts and gore, zombies and murders most foul.
Sebastien Archibald and Amy McDougall. Credit: Matt Reznek
Category: Review
Bakersfield Mist
At The Stanley until November 20, 2016
There’s a gift waiting for you at The Stanley and it’s Nicola Cavendish.
Nicola Cavendish as Maude Gutman in Bakersfield Mist. Credit: David Cooper
Three Stories Up: Theatre in the Dark
At 805 East Pender Street until October 31, 2016
Nothing new under the sun. Not always true. Three Stories Up, produced by Alley Theatre and Level-Headed Friends, re-invents and re-invigorates the radio play.
Marisa Emma Smith (director) and Mack Gordon (playwright). Credit: Peter Carlone
Straight Jacket Winter
At Studio 16 until October 29, 2016
The tableau that brings the curtain down on Straight Jacket Winter keeps the audience clustered around the stage in almost childlike wonder. It feels a little like Christmas.
Frédéric Lemay as Gilles and Julie Trépanier as Esther in Straight Jacket Winter. Credit: Renaud Phillipe
Fight Night
At The Cultch until October 29, 2016
With only a few weeks to go before the gong show that is the US presidential campaign wraps up, Fight Night arrives at The Cultch. The timing could not be better or funnier or more interesting.
Angelo Tijssens in Fight Night. Credit: Sarah Eeckhaut
Flare Path
At Jericho Arts Centre until October 22, 2016
Flare Path is an odd choice for the Slamming Door Artist Collective that mounted Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in the fall of 2015 in the same venue with many of the same actors.
Curtis Tweedie as Teddy and Yoshié Bancroft as Patricia in Flare Path. Credit: Jalen Laine Photography
The Concierge of Vancouver
At Studio 1398 until October 16, 2016
Where are the Robin Hoods when we most need them? One of them is in The Concierge of Vancouver.
Art Kitching as Al Noseworthy in The Concierge of Vancouver. Credit: Alex Bischoff – Bischoff Photography
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
At Studio 58 until October 16, 2016
Sprawling, epic and grandly theatrical, stand-alone Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches defies description. Three hours fly by. Theatre writ large.
Julien Galipeau as Prior Walter in Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches. Credit: David Cooper
The Flick
At the Arts Club Granville Island Stage until October 29, 2016
You’ll leave the theatre amazed that the 2014 Pulitzer committee was astute enough to see the brilliance in The Flick.
Jesse Reid, Shannon Chan-Kent and Haig Sutherland in The Flick. Credit: David Cooper
Stranger to Hard Work
At the Firehall Arts Centre until October 8, 2016
In her sixth decade, she’s proud to say she’s still “fuckable”; the night I saw the show, the Firehall audience was on its feet for Cathy Jones who is still very, very funny.
Cathy Jones in Stranger to Hard Work