Jericho Arts Centre to November 16, 2025
Playwright Rick Dobran is one multi-talented guy: former server and restaurant manager, stage and film actor, tattoo artist and playwright. The collages that hang in the Jericho Arts Centre lobby are his creations, too. There’s probably lots more; I have the feeling this guy packs a lot of living in.
Rick Dobran as Joe and Mersiha Musovic as Lily in The Best Restaurant in the World. Ever. Credit: Andrew Fraser
Progress Lab (1422 William) to November 22, 2025
This might be the strangest love story you’ve ever seen – if it is a love story.
Andy Kalirai as Tristan, Paige Louter as Connie in The Effect. Credit: Chelsey Stuyt
Firehall Arts Centre to October 25, 2025
Based on the Japanese play Sarachi (Vacant Lot), by contemporary Japanese theatre artist Shogo Ota, Vacant Lot is a hybrid dance/theatre piece at the Firehall for only two more performances.
Hiromoto Ida and Lindsay Clague in Vacant Lot. Credit: Carlo Alcos
Pacific Theatre to November 2, 2025
“Wakey, wakey/Rise and shine” – or so we greet the dawn. We all know the time will come when we – every one of us – will neither wake nor rise again. But Wakey, Wakey, written by American playwright Will Eno, is surprisingly funny and even more surprisingly, uplifting.
Craig Erickson as Guy in Wakey, Wakey. Credit: Chelsea Stuyt
The Cultch to October 26. 2025
The world premiere of a new play is cause for celebration and the opening night audience at Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project celebrated with an immediate, noisy-bordering-on-raucous, standing O.
Melissa Oei, Marianna Zouzoulas and Praneet Akilla in Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project. Credit: David Cooper
Stanley BFL Canada Stage to October 5, 2025
A Doll’s House is one of the most frequently produced plays worldwide. Amy Herzog’s adaptation was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play and won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Adaptation in 2023.
Alexandra Lainfiesta as Nora in A Doll’s House. Credit: Moonrider Productions
Vancity Culture Lab (The Cultch) to September 20, 2025
My first thought after the curtain fell on the evening I saw The Animal Kingdom: the playwright must have had first-hand experience to be able to write with such surgical precision about this dysfunctional family’s experience with depression and self-harm.
Lili Martin as Sofia, Advah Soudack (Rita) and Mozi Mayaleh (Sam) in The Animal Kingdom. Credit: Vickie Legere
Jericho Arts Centre to September 28, 2025
Metamorphoses is an ancient poem given new life by a trio of emerging directors, highly creative designers and a fresh young cast. Ovid without the dust of the ages.
Hazel Kang as Iris and Blake Buksa as Aphrodite in Metamorphoses. Credit: Michelle Lee
Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park, to August 14, 2025
Theatre Under the Stars, celebrating its 85th season, must be revelling in this warm weather night after night.
The cast of Legally Blonde The Musical with Abby Woodhouse (aloft) as Elle Woods. Credit: Emily Cooper
Bard on the Beach (Vanier Park) to September 20, 2025
If you’re curious about what’s going on under the tents down at Vanier Park from June 10-September 20, but you hate Shakespeare, this one’s for you.
Tess Degenstein in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]. Photo and Image Design: Emily Cooper