Arts Club Granville Island Stage to January 1, 2023
Death and taxes – and, oh yes, Christmas; three things you can count on happening. In this, the Mom’s the Word Collective’s fifth installment of their 1993 hit, the writers/performers look at the holiday season in all its joy and jubilation, frustration and frenzy.
Deborah Williams, Alison Kelly, Barbara Pollard, Robin Nichol and Jill Daum. Credit: Moonrider Productions
Vancouver Convention Centre East Building (999 West Hastings) until January 8, 2023
Little did young King Tut know how important his life and, even more more important, his death would be to uncovering the mysteries of ancient Egypt three thousand years later.
Credit: Andrea Ledingham
The Cultch until November 5, 2022
There’s so much genre-blending and bending in YAGA that you’re likely to get whiplash trying to follow all the threads. But fun? So much fun!
Colleen Wheeler as Baba Yaga (and others) in YAGA. Credit: Emily Cooper
Newmont Stage, BMO Theatre Centre until October 30, 2022
Commissioned by the Arts Club and directed jointly by Ashlie Corcoran and Omari Newton, Redbone Coonhound is as good-looking and great sounding as, well, an actual Redbone Coonhound.
Emerjade Simms and Kwesi Ameyaw in Redbone Coonhound. Credit: Moonrider Productions
Firehall Arts Centre until October 30, 2022
Just why are blueberries assholes, according to playwright/stand-up performer TJ Dawe? Get the answer to that question – and much more – in TJ Dawe’s latest show, Blueberries Are Assholes.
The Cultch Historic Theatre until October 23, 2022
If ever a play screamed out for audience intervention, Bad Parent is one. And in removing the fourth wall and having the actors, Raugi Yu and Josette Jorge, address the audience directly, playwright Ins Choi leaves the door wide open for us to jump in and holler, “Nooooooo” or “We hear you” or “Hang in there.”
Josette Jorge as Norah/Nora and Raugi Yu as Charles/Dale in Bad Parent. Credit: Dahlia Katz
At Pacific Theatre until October 15, 2022
“Between goodness and me, there is a country highway running past an orchard. Wanting to be good is wanting to get to an apple tree to pick an apple while I’m on the other side of the highway.” This is how Fanny Britt’s play, set in 2018 in the fictional village of Bienveillance in rural Quebec, begins.
Charlie Gallant as Gilles Jean in Benevolence. Credit: Moonrider Productions
At Jericho Arts Centre until October 2, 2022
Under the direction of Sarah Rodgers, newly appointed Artistic Director of United Players, this is a tight team of highly experienced as well as not-so-experienced actors – all women – and playwright Ray Kennedy has written a colourful vehicle for each of them.
Evangela Kepinski as Louise and Allyson Riley as Margaret in The Thursday Night Bridge Circle. Credit: Nancy Caldwell
Bard on the Beach until September 24, 2022
Catch this Bard on the Beach production while the moon is full and think on Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers who wonder if it is the lark or the nightingale singing. If the nightingale, they have more minutes to be together in Juliet’s bedchamber; if the lark, Romeo must flee. Parting, Shakespeare tells us, is such sweet sorrow.
Ghazal Azarbad as Juliet and Daniel Fong as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. Credit: Emily Cooper
Theatre Under the Stars until August 26, 2022
Imagine trying to break into the biz when Shakespeare’s plays were selling like hotcakes at the Globe Theatre day after day. Attempting to get a play in edgewise was next to impossible – or that’s the idea behind Something Rotten, now playing at the Malkin Bowl. You don’t have to know anything about Shakespeare to enjoy this laugh-out-loud spoof at the expense of the Bard.
Daniel Curalli as Will Shakespeare in Something Rotten. Credit: Emily Cooper