At Pacific Theatre until November 1, 2015
Directed by Sarah Rodgers, this Midnight Theatre Collective Production is well done: good voices, sublime harmonies and a cast of a dozen all of whom play a variety of musical instruments including guitar, upright bass, piano, banjo, fiddle, spoons and washboard.
Lalainia Lindbjerg Strelau and Gordon Roberts in Smoke on the Mountain. Credit: Midnight Collective Theatre
At the Arts Club Granville Island Stage until October 31, 2015
Colorectal cancer are not two words with which you want to begin writing – or reading – a review. But The Waiting Room takes us far beyond a terrifying medical diagnosis into the realm of family, healing and hope.
John Mann (left) and Jonathon Young in The Waiting Room. Credit: Emily Cooper
At Studio 58 until October 18, 2015
I have met a lot of Romeos in my time. Let me re-phrase: I have met a lot of Shakespeare’s Romeos over the years. And I have never found one more winsome, brighter-eyed and more appealing than the one in Studio 58’s production of Romeo + Juliet. The role is played by a young woman (Camille Legg).
Camille Legg as Romeo and Adellah Furseth as Juliet in Romeo + Juliet. Credit: David Cooper
At The Cultch until October 10, 2015
Do yourself a favour and see Are We Cool Now? at The Cultch. Variously described as “an indie rock musical” and “an innovative rock music/theatre fusion” it’s all about being twenty-something and being in love. Or maybe not.
Penelope Corrin (as Penelope) and Ben Elliott (as Ben) in Are We Cool Now? Credit: Murray Mitchell
At The Firehall Arts Centre until October 10, 2015
A love bomb sounds like something you wouldn’t mind having strapped to your chest. Not so.
Sara Vickruck as Justine in LOVE BOMB. Credit: Pink Monkey Studios
At the Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) until October 10, 2015
Ulysses (Daryl Shuttleworth) was so drunk on that night twenty years ago that he can’t remember why his wife Emma (Lucia Frangione) took off with their five-year-old son Sam and never came back. Until this night.
Daryl Shuttleworth as Ulysses and Lucia Frangione as Emma in Annapurna. Credit: Anne Marie Slater
At The Stanley until October 18, 2015
You can really sink your teeth into this 2013 Pulitzer prize-winning play written by American playwright Ayad Akhtar, directed for the Arts Club by Janet Wright.
Patrick Sabongui as Amir in Disgraced. Credit: Ross den Otter
At York Theatre until October 3, 2015
We all know what happens to best laid plans. They gang aft agley, eh?
Nick Fontaine as Daniel Addison in Best Laid Plans. Credit: Tim Matheson
Vancouver Fringe Festival 2015
Last review. It’s all over ’til next year.
At Jericho Arts Centre until September 27, 2015
The titular ‘man for all seasons’ is Sir Thomas More and the description comes from More’s contemporary, Robert Whittington, who described the 16th century Chancellor of England as, “a man of angel’s wit and singular learning… a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes, and sometime of sad gravity. A man for all seasons.”
Graham Bullen as Sir Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons. Credit: Nancy Caldwell