Parade
191 Alexander Street to April 13, 2024
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If I’d gone to opening night instead of dragging my heels, I could have told you how fantastic Parade is in time for you to see it.
Josh Epstein as Leo Frank in Parade. Credit: Nicol Spinola
Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to April 21, 2024
It could hardly be more fitting that the Arts Club opened Red Velvet, a 2012 play by Lolita Chakrabarti, on March 27, 2024, International Theatre Day because the main issue raised in the play – set in 1833 and 1867 – persists to this day.
Quincy Armorer as Ira Aldridge in Red Velvet. Credit: Moonrider Productions
Performance Works to March 17, 2024
How often do we hear the phrase – or say it ourselves – “I’m here for you”? That’s what friends say, right? But what if friends find themselves on opposites sides of an issue? Take Israel and Palestine, for example; can friendship survive a difference of opinion when it comes to genocide?
Christiaan Westerveld as B and Kate Craven as A in An Intervention. Credit: Danielle Merchant
Studio 16 to February 25, 2024
Constellations is a puzzle and not always comfortable. But under the direction of Cristiana Ripeanu for Exact Resemblance Theatre Company, these are two terrific performances by Gillian Clare and Jacob Machin.
Jacob Machin and Gillian Clare as Roland and Marianne in Constellations. Photo credit: Hannah Bel Davis. Graphic design: Annika McFarlane
At Pacific Theatre to March 9, 2024
Kids say the darndest things. Ask any fond grandmother.
The cast. Credit: Chelsey Stuyt
Jericho Arts Centre to February 11, 2024
Gertrude Stein is Gertrude Stein is Gertrude Stein. And when actor Tanja Dixon-Warren (as Gertrude) breaks down the fourth wall and asks us why we came to see this show, I’m betting it’s curiosity not about what Stein wrote but about the person, the famous/infamous Gertrude Stein.
Tanja Dixon-Warren as Gertrude and Kelsi James as Alice in Gertrude and Alice. Credit: Nancy Caldwell.
Jericho Arts Centre to December 24, 2023
Directed by Sarah Rodgers, A Christmas in Wales is long on nostalgia but you’d have to be grinchy not to be charmed. Sweet as sugar plums? Not quite. There’s always an undercurrent of melancholy, of time passing; just enough to give it an edge.
Ellen Kennedy, Kazz Leskard and Andrew Lynch in A Christmas in Wales. Credit: Nancy Caldwell
York Theatre to January 7, 2024
Theatre Replacement’s East Van Panto always features a reworked fairy tale that takes place in and around The Drive but this time, co-written by Christine Quintana and Jivesh Parasram, it’s really specific: all the action happens on the corner of Clark and Venables at Fujiya Japanese Foods, across from Mr. Mattress.
The cast of Theatre Replacement’s East Van Panto: Beauty and the Beast. Credit: Emily Cooper
The Cultch to December 3, 2023
A comedy about the climate crisis? You’ve got to be kidding. But playwright Pippa Mackie isn’t kidding and yet Hurricane Mona is very funny. It’s also more than a little surreal; one of the characters is a human-sized frog.
Alex Gullason as Mona in Hurricane Mona. Credit: Pedro Augusto Meza
The Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to December 31, 2023
Is this Arts Club production fun? Oh, yes! Is the set design by Brian Ball fantastic? Absolutely. Lights by Itai Erdal? Bright and beautiful. Christine Reimer’s costumes? Amazing. And there are tap-dancing Santas. What more could anyone ask?
Andrew McNee as Buddy in Elf: The Musical. Credit: David Cooper