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  • Smooth, Layered, Original: Maribou State Kick Off The “Hallucinating Love” Tour
  • Anosh Irani’s “Behind the Moon” Spotlights Immigrant Issues with Dramatic Flair
  • Abi Padilla’s “Grandma. Gangsta. Guerilla.” Offers a Well-Knit Story, Brimming with Action-Packed Levity
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  • Dance In Vancouver: “Lossy” by Company 605 and “Croquis” by FakeKnot
  • VIFF 2024 Reviews
  • Katha-Keertana Chronicles Delivers a Didactic Discourse via Musical Story-Telling
  • Crystal Pite, Pierre Pontvianne, and Imre and Marne van Opstal Present Risk-Taking, Philosophical Works in DAWN
  • Strauss’ Die Fledermaus – A Halloween treat!
  • Tentacle Tribe’s “Prism” is a Gorgeous Storm of Modern Movement and Colour
  • “A Journalist’s Role is to Tell the Truth:” In Conversation with Tanya Talaga on Her New Book and Documentary Series, “The Knowing”
  • Lutalo Brings “The Academy” And Indie-Rock Driven Life Lessons To Vancouver
  • Agrimony Captures Majestic Intricacies of Anthropocene Societies via Animalistic Ritualization
  • Bard on the Beach: Twelfth Night and Hamlet Bring the Summer Heat
  • PuSH: because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it) – A Yogic Meditation on Microaggressions
  • PuSH Festival: Ramanenjana by Tangaj Collective – An Artistic Critique of the Colonial Gaze
  • Heart of the City Festival highlights community resilience in Vancouver’s DTES
  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia Talks About Film, Genre, Writing, and her New Novel, “Silver Nitrate”
  • Kevin Chong’s Students Ask the Writer About his Giller Prize Shortlisted Novel “The Double Life of Benson Yu”
  • VIFF 2023: Sculpting the Giant
  • VIFF 2023: Richelieu
  • VIFF 2023: The Old Oak
  • Fallen from Heaven (Caída del Cielo) Showcases Rocío Molina’s Raw Power
  • Earthy Vancouver Folk Music Festival Returns With A Diverse Lineup
  • Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical by Theatre Under The Stars Captures the Euphoria of Youth Rebellion
  • Briefs Factory’s Dirty Laundry immerses you in queer joy
  • First Métis Man of Odesa – Love is the Antidote to War
  • The Lightning Thief – The Percy Jackson Musical Brings Local Talent to Light
  • Soldiers of Tomorrow injects moral clarity into dominant geopolitical discourse
  • Are we not drawn onward to new erA reverses the gaze on mankind’s history to imagine new futures
  • MANUAL is an immersive conversation with a public library
  • Soliloquio (I Woke Up and Hit My Head Against the Wall) is a Heart Wrenching Demonstration of Anti-Art
  • Colored Swan 3: Harriers Remix is a Metaphysical Journey Through Time and Space
  • In My Day – A Tribute to Vancouver’s History of HIV Activism
  • Indiefest 2022 Reimagines Performance Arts by Highlighting Vancouver’s Cultural Diversity
  • Hot Brown Honey – The Remix: a Sweet Taste of Activism
  • Summer Night Fun with Theatre Under the Stars: We Will Rock You and Something Rotten
  • “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Bard on the Beach Entrances Vancouver with Shakespeare’s Psychedelic Play
  • Vancouver Opera Returns with the Gothic Glamour and Romance of “Orfeo ed Euridice”
  • Medhi Walerski and BalletBC’s Return to the Stage with “Unfold + Give” Slaps!
  • Why Ian Williams is the Canadian Author We Stan
  • Neworld Theatre’s “Eyes of the Beast” Adapts “The Climate Disaster Project” for Community Dialogue
  • “Much Ado About Nothing” At Bard on the Beach is a Summer Treat
  • Theatre Under The Stars Returns With An Edible Dream: Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, So Don’t Dally. Go Watch It!

Talking Matters of the Heart with Ballet BC’s Romeo + Juliet

February 8, 2018February 9, 2018
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Shakespeare’ s iconic play, “Romeo and Juliet” lay the solid foundations of our present-day ideas of love and romance, despite the wear and tear of four centuries. William Shakespeare vividly recreated the mad longing of young love, its reckless nature,

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Meet the New Lads on the Block in “Dublin Oldschool”

February 1, 2018February 5, 2018
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“Dublin Oldschool” is a labour of love. Whether conveying a love for a city as intriguing as Dublin, the love of doing things for the heck of it, the love for family, or the love of music, this show is

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“It’s Dark Outside” is A Deeply Moving Portrait of Aging

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018
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“It’s Dark Outside” was a delight. It was intrinsically sad yet uplifting, visually mesmerising and ultimately spellbinding. Its meaning is elusive at first. Pitched as a wild west mystery, we follow our weathered protagonist’s quest to understand the mysterious things

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A Haunting DJ Beat is Immortalized in “I’m Not Here”

January 28, 2018January 30, 2018
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The beginning of “I’m Not Here” is just as the title suggests. One minute someone is there and then they aren’t. One minute the chair is there and then it isn’t. The performance asks and echoes, again, and again, “is

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“Radio Rewrite” Transforms Radiohead’s Popular Music into Classical Symphonies

January 25, 2018January 25, 2018
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A show about Radiohead can only be accurately reviewed by a Radiohead expert. So we turned to an avid fan of the iconic band to check out “Radio Rewrite” at the Push Festival. Abhi’s perspective is not only valuable in the

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The Romantic “L’Elisir d’amore” Will Turn Newbies Into Opera Enthusiasts

January 23, 2018
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I don’t know much about opera, in fact, historically my attitude has been one of disinterested ignorance. Listening or watching recordings of opera has never really moved me, apart from maybe the hard-hitting arias popularised on ice cream commercials. So

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Nicola Gunn is Playful in the Ethically Contemplative “Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster”

January 22, 2018
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Cute is a dangerous word because when we say anything is cute we think it’s small and it’s frivolous and of course, feminine. We definitely don’t think cute is intellectual or extremely well versed in philosophy, history and ethics. But

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