At Gateway Theatre until April 15, 2017
How much you enjoy The Watershed might depend on whether you say ‘oil sands’ or ‘tar sands’.
Liisa Repo-Martell as Annabel Soutar and Alex Ivanovici as Alex Ivanovici in The Watershed. Credit: Guntar Kravis
At The Fishbowl April 7 and 8, 2017
Want to know what the end of the world looks like? If Pi Theatre is right, it’s godawful. Even if Pi Theatre is wrong, it’s probably godawful.
At Presentation House until April 9 and at Studio 16 from April 12-16, 2017
With so many blood-curdling, realistic depictions of war in the movies and on TV, it’s challenging to stage a war on stage – especially in an intimate setting like Presentation House.
Deneh’Cho Thompson as Jonathon and Raes Calvert as Half-Blood in REDPATCH. Credit: Mark Halliday
At The Stanley until April 23, 2017
Big, big, big. Under the direction of award-winning Kim Collier (co-founder of the Electric Company Theatre and winner of the prestigious Siminovitch Prize for Directing), Angels in America: Part One, written by American playwright Tony Kushner, is epic.
Damien Atkins and Ryan Beil in Angels in America: Part One. Credit: David Cooper
At Jericho Arts Centre until April 16, 2017
The Train Driver is one of the best shows United Players has ever produced: a scorching yet poetic script by South African playwright Athol Fugard; taut, intelligent direction by Adam Henderson; a vast, dusty set by John Taylor; and two masterful performances.
Paul Herbert as Roelf in The Train Driver. Credit: Nancy Caldwell
At Studio 58 until April 9, 2017
Two very interesting shows are happening simultaneously in Vancouver right now: Refuge at the Firehall Arts Centre until April 1 and The Refugee Hotel at Studio 58 until April 9.
Elizabeth Barrett as Flaca in The Refugee Hotel. Credit: Emily Cooper
Firehall Arts Centre until April 1, 2017
Timely, disturbing and powerful, Refuge is a window on the refugee process in this country and the horrifying alternatives facing unsuccessful claimants who are doomed by the Immigrant and Refugee Board to be returned to their homeland.
Nicola Lipman as Interviewer and Aadin Church as Mebrahtu in Refuge. Credit: Emily Cooper
At The Cultch until April 9, 2017
Oh, Ronnie Burkett, did you really say that out loud? Yes, you did. Something like, “Fourteen inches of fun-in-the-dark east of The Drive”.
Esme Massengill. Credit: Alejandro Santiago
At Frederic Wood Theatre (UBC) until April 1, 2017
First the playwright writes the play and then the director creates the magic. MFA Candidate Diane Brown, Artistic Director, Ruby Slippers Theatre, lifts Michel Tremblay’s groundbreaking script off the page and puts it raucously but lovingly on the Frederic Wood stage.
Bronwyn Henderson (centre) as Germaine in Les Belles-Soeurs. Credit: Emily Cooper
At PAL (Performing Arts Lodge), March 14-19, 2017
Spring is in the air and a young man’s (or woman’s) fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Go no further than the Bard to hear what love does to us.
Eileen Barrett as Viola/Cesario in Twelfth Night. Credit: Javier Sotres