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“As You Like It”: Bard on The Beach Does Shakespeare Lite With A Beatles Musical

July 7, 2018July 7, 2018
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If ever there was a Shakespearean work that was summery, breezy and required minimal mental cardio, “As You Like It” is it. The Bard on the Beach team has set this sangria-like romantic comedy to the backdrop of 1960s Vancouver

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Pacific Theatre’s “ ‘da Kink in My Hair” is a Shining Example of the Diverse Narratives That We Are Craving!

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018
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There’s Sherelle. She’s exhausted. She’s a Yale PhD, but that doesn’t matter because she’s black and a woman and there’s no way she could have gotten to where she is today with only brains and talent. Sherelle is tired. So

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“Lysistrata” Director Lois Anderson On Greek Comedy, Inspiration, and Bard on the Beach

June 26, 2018July 12, 2018
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Lois Anderson is directing Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata”, a riotous comedy from 411 BC playing at Bard on the Beach from July 6th to September 13th. Her many roles at Bard have included Paulina in the “Winter’s Tale”, Viola in “Twelfth Night”,

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Vancouver Men’s Chorus Celebrates Pride Month With “Gays of Our Lives”

June 7, 2018June 11, 2018
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Granville Island is about to get a whole lot funkier from Friday, as the Vancouver Men’s Chorus (VMC) brings us six days of music and celebration, paying homage to the ‘Gays of Our Lives’. On at Performance works from June

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Bard on the Beach’s Lady Macbeth, Moya O’Connell, Takes Us Behind the Scenes and Into Her Process

May 31, 2018
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Opening the 2018 Bard on the Beach season is Shakespeare’s dark, psychological inquiry: “Macbeth”. A tale of the corrupting potential of power, and its inevitable, ruinous effects. For those who are a little rusty on the plot- after a prophecy

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Julia Taffe’s Gravity-Defying Choreography in Aeriosa’s “Second Nature” Examines the Beauty of Human Transformation

May 25, 2018May 25, 2018
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Aeriosa has been part of Vancouver’s cultural landscape for almost a decade now. And quite literally so! The dance company has performed aerial dance pieces amongst the lofty branches of Stanley Park trees, on the textured cliffside of the Stawamus Chief,

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“Les Filles du Roi” Dissects Colonialism To Reveal Our Confused Definitions of Indigeneity

May 24, 2018May 24, 2018
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“Les Filles du Roi”, a new piece by creative duo Corey Payette and Julie McIsaac, is a historical reimagining. It follows the story of Marie-Jeanne, played by McIsaac, a young “fille du roi”, who discovers that the “new world” is

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