The Vancouver Fringe opened last night to the glee of the city’s theatre geeks. The line-up this year is bursting with its usual left-of-centre goodness. Playwright Munish Sharma brings cultural flavour to the festival this year with his dark comedy

Shana Myara has the coolest job in the world. She gets to watch and assess cool, avant-garde cinema for a living. We are jealous all right. Shana has been part of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) for a while

King Lear’s struggle with insanity makes for one of Shakespeare’s most dramatic tragedies. Bard On the Beach tackles the serious play with an extensive cast on the BMO main stage. Lovers of King Lear know that it is a long

Baba Brinkman traces the roots of faith from tribal animism to radical Islam to Justin Bieber thanking god at the MTV Teen Choice Awards in his latest show, The Rap Guide to Religion. The show fires up the Waterfront Theatre stage on Granville Island, for one

Summer in Vancouver seems incomplete without an outing to at least one Shakespearean play at Bard On The Beach. This year the line-up is eclectic and full of thematic twists. Shakespeare’s earliest and shortest play, not to mention one of

Realwheels Theatre has heart like no other theatre company in Vancouver. Their mission is to promote the respectful and accurate representation of disability in the public eye. The company has been responsible for producing shows that allow the talents of

Jay Dodge and Sherry Yoon are the creative forces behind Boca del Lupo, a Vancouver-based theatre company that has been challenging the boundaries of traditional theatre for more than twenty years. Their latest production Big Bad is part of the