Online performances until February 14, 2021
Mary Anning (1799-1847). Ring any bells? Not likely. And why is that? After all, she is known as “the greatest fossilist the world ever knew”, according to the British Journal of the History of Science.
Hannah Pearson, Krista Skwarok and Isaac Li in She Sells Sea Shells. Credit: Nancy Caldwell
Digital stage recording available from the Surrey Civic Theatres until January 31, 2021
A is for Asha. B is for Brimful. C is for charming. A Brimful of Asha will give you a reason to smile.
Ravi Jain and his mother Asha Jain in A Brimful of Asha. Credit: Erin Brubacher
Streamed live from the York Theatre until December 27 (selected dates and times)
Here’s a Christmas present you can open right now! Theatre Replacement has moved back into the York Theatre with what has become a wildly popular Vancouver Christmas tradition presented by Theatre Replacement and The Cultch since 2013.
Shawn Macdonald, Dawn Petten and James Long in Panto Come Home! Credit: Emily Cooper
Online from Gateway Theatre December 18, 2020-January 1, 2021
If you’re already Christmassed out with TV Christmas specials, Gateway Theatre’s Home for the Holidays might provide a refreshing respite.
Lalainia Lindbjerg in Home for the Holidays
Online from December 8, 2020-January 3, 2021
This Arts Club production, which opened on the Newmont stage of the BMO Centre back in November, is now being streamed right into your living room in response to Dr. Henry’s regulations regarding gatherings.
Available online from Studio 58 until December 6, 2020
This Studio 58 group of young adults throws themselves into Theatre: The Play with gusto and I liked the sort of radio play/stage play hybrid with sound effects being made by the performers in full view: the sound of a helicopter, a ski doo racing across Antarctica, for example.
Artwork by Emily Cooper
Streaming online until November 29, 2020
Catalina La O Présenta: Ahora Conmigo is a 53-minute online, live theatre/video hybrid co-written by Jenny Larson and khattieQ, performed by khattieQ. Winner of the 2020 Vancouver Fringe New Play Prize, Catalina La O is presented jointly by Jk Jk and Neworld Theatre.
Poster by Pomona Lake
Livestreamed from the Cultch until November 22, 2020
Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata ran on the Arts Club Revue Stage back in 2012 to rave reviews so it’s about time someone remounted it, albeit now titled in lower case letters.
Chirag Naik in do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata
Jericho Arts Centre and online until December 6, 2020
I like this play and this production a lot. Stylish and thought-provoking, it reminded me of Peggy Lee singing, Is That All There Is? as well as Paul Simon’s Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.
Tracy Jennissen in The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye). Costume design: Catherine E. Carr
Credit: Nancy Caldwell
Arts Club Granville Island Stage until December 6, 2020
McNee’s is a virtuosic performance, not to be missed. Every gesture, every word opens our hearts to born-in-a-bathtub Felix.
Andrew McNee as Felix in BUFFOON. Credit: Moonrider Productions