Italian Cultural Centre parking lot (southwest corner) until May 4, 2014
The windstorm howling around the trailer on opening night was nothing compared to the storm going on inside as Chris Smith (Sebastien Archibald) persuades the rest of the family to hire a hit man to off his mother.
Emma Slipp as Sharla in Killer Joe. Credit: Andrew Klaver
At Massey Theatre until April 26, 2014
There are some very big pipes on some very small girls at New Westminster’s Massey Theatre right now. One of these little girls – Jaime MacLean, who plays Molly – is only eight but she can belt with the best of them.
Julia MacLean as Annie. Credit: Tim Matheson
At The Firehall Arts Centre until April 26, 2014
It’s spooky how like Stephen Harper actor Andrew Wheeler is in PROUD and it’s not all in the grey, plastered-down wig.
Andrew Wheeler as Prime Minister Stephen Harper in PROUD. Credit: Emily Cooper
At Jericho Arts Centre until April 20, 2014
The Old Curiosity Shop is a bit of a curiosity in itself. It’s a Charles Dickens novel set back in 1825 and serialized weekly in 1841. Director Sarah Rodgers writes that New York readers “stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final installment arrived in 1841.”
Graeme Thompson, Kazz Leskard and Kirsty Provan. Credit: Nancy Caldwell
At Little Mountain Theatre until April 6, 2014
Many of us remember the TV coverage of the looting of Baghdad’s National Museum of Iraq in the Spring of 2003. Perhaps by the time we saw the news the most precious artifacts had already been stolen because what I remember seeing were men and boys running out with chairs, bookcases and small tables.
Alec Willows as Khalil Najim in Ghosts in Baghdad. Credit: Tim Matheson
At The Cultch until April 19, 2014
When Mies Julie (Hilda Cronje) enters the room, barefoot and bare leggèd, slick with sweat and wearing a flimsy skirt slit to the waist, you know she’s looking for action.
Bongile Mantsai (John) and Hilda Cronje (Julie) in Mies Julie. Credit: Mark Wessels
At The Russian Hall (600 Campbell Avenue) until March 30
After Macbeth stabbed King Duncan in his bedchamber he finds his hands drenched in blood and he begins to panic. Get over it, says Lady Macbeth.
Credit: Dan Borzillo
At Studio 58 until April 6, 2014
Can there be any adequate compensation for being falsely convicted of rape and murder, and being incarcerated for a decade from the age of fourteen? That’s the story of Steven Truscott, dramatized in 2009 by Canadian playwright Beverley Cooper and on stage now at Studio 58.
Mike Gill as Steven Truscott in Innocence Lost. Credit: Emily Cooper
At Gallery Gachet until March 30, 2014
Confession is good for the soul according to an old Scottish proverb. If that’s true, there’s a lot of ‘good’ happening at Gallery Gachet. And there’s so much – and I know, it sounds so 60s – love in the room, you can do the breaststroke in it.
Robert Salvador, Alexa Devine, Allan Morgan and Manami Hara in This Stay in the Room.
Credit: Tim Matheson
At The Stanley until April 13, 2014
The ‘wow’ factor in Helen Lawrence is huge. So hyped has this show been no one believed it could live up to expectations. But from a technical and aesthetic perspective, it really does.
Lisa Ryder as Helen Lawrence. Credit: David Cooper