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Fringe 2022: The Yellow Wallpaper, The DK Effect and Ha Ha da Vinci

September 17, 2022
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We hit up another evening at the Fringe Festival and caught some wildly entertaining shows. There are still many great shows to see and we wish we could see them all! The Fringe continues all weekend so make sure you

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Fringe 2022: Tango to the Pointe, Discounted Hotpot Centre, Guys Don’t Journal and 30 Neo-Futuristic Plays

September 16, 2022September 16, 2022
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The Vancouver Fringe Festival is back and we couldn’t be happier about it! It’s been a long two year wait to see the city’s most whimsical and boundary pushing theatre and performing arts festival back in full swing. The line-up

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Summer Night Fun with Theatre Under the Stars: We Will Rock You and Something Rotten

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022
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  We Will Rock You A whole-hearted standing ovation for We Will Rock You! From the plot to the music to the laced social commentary, We Will Rock You makes you want to get up on to your feet, sing,

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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Bard on the Beach Entrances Vancouver with Shakespeare’s Psychedelic Play

July 3, 2022
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“And then they woke up” is perhaps the most unholy way to end a story, and thankfully Shakespeare would never do that to an audience—he respects us too much. In his beloved comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, something more important

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Ballet BC’s “What If” is an Urgent Work that Reflects on a Rapidly Unravelling Social Order

May 15, 2022
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This week I stepped out of the unrelenting spring rain into Queen Elizabeth Theatre to check out the grand finale of Ballet BC’s 2021-2022 season. Emerging from the pandemic, slowly but surely, we are learning to get back to where

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Noir Thriller “The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare” Asks All the Right Questions

May 2, 2022
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Historical fiction musical “The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare” questions right and wrong in wartime. It follows the story of an all-female group of secret agents in World War II, tasked with sabotaging German supply lines and travel routes. This

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Kidd Pivot’s “Revisor” Deconstructs Gogol’s Timeless Satire of Corruption, and How!

April 1, 2022April 2, 2022
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As we waited in line to get our vaccine passports checked at the Vancouver Playhouse, the person behind me said to their date, “I’ve been waiting a long time for this. It’s going to be so good!” And just like

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