Theatre

Lisa Horner plays a 16-year-old girl whose rare genetic condition gives her the appearance of a 72-year-old woman

At The Cultch’s York Theatre, the acclaimed writer and director turns to genre-blending Indigenous practices to open new perspectives on identity, land claims, and hope

Working from Kat Sandler’s darkly witty script, Synthia Yusuf and Nathan Kay range from sweet and innocent to defiant and dangerous

In their wickedly witty solo show at the Firehall Arts Centre, writer-actor Marlene Ginader and director Jenna Rodgers satirize the white-male-dominated world of the serial killer

In Alissa Watson’s adaptation of the beloved Robert Munsch book, Princess Elizabeth must rescue Prince Ronald from a Dragon

Pi Theatre show at Vines Den is Munish Sharma’s personal look at Bollywood, masculinity, and more

Fairy-tale adventure based on the 2001 DreamWorks Animation film is equal parts heartwarming and hilarious

Ojibway playwright Drew Hayden Taylor delivers a story about the world of counterfeit Indigenous art

At Gateway Theatre, Vancouver actor Synthia Yusuf delves into a Kat Sandler play that takes refreshing risks with the history behind the “Beauty and the Beast” folk tale

At The Cultch, The Search Party play’s strong performances, dry wit, and inventive staging capture the disorientation of addiction and the stories we tell ourselves about it

Story follows the passionate affair between penniless playwright Will and beautiful young woman Viola de Lesseps

Cyborg teenagers struggle with the same fears about technology that their human counterparts do in this visually spare, idea-charged production by UBC Theatre

Based on an early Agatha Christie story, the play focuses on a woman’s impulsive marriage to a charming mystery man

Multifaceted theatremakers Munish Sharma and Gavan Cheema bring an eight-year-long project to completion by working beyond stage conventions

Actor Brian Markinson says Lloyd Suh’s script takes artistic liberties with the life of Benjamin Franklin

With warped sitcom rhythms, Caroline Bélisle’s new play brings together two old friends to contend with contemporary ambivalence about bringing children into the world

Eighty shows in all, as Italy’s Teatro Telaio sets up an ARCHIPELAGO installation, plus pow-wow, hip-hop, and massive puppets

Award-winning play by Susanna Fournier offers an unsettling, witty update of fairy-tale themes as old as Pinocchio and the Pied Piper

Provocative solo show follows a woman who’s focused on fixing the lack of diversity in the serial-killer space

In the Theatre Conspiracy production copresented by Touchstone Theatre, a South Asian man finds self-expression through dance

Director Mindy Parfitt finds inspiration with local implications in the darkness, wit, and honesty of Duncan Macmillan’s acclaimed play

In the endearing new Metro Theatre production, a five-sister team of performers creates an exceptionally strong and funny ensemble

Arts Club production centres a married couple that recounts the good, the bad, and the ugly of spending 50 years together

Care of Théâtre la Seizième, the work examines how female friendships must adapt to the pressure of raising a new life

Based on the true story that inspired Beauty and the Beast, play centres Catherine de Medici and the man who awakens her wild side

Next season includes high-camp spoof Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Tracey Power’s premiere The Elvis Christmas Comeback Special, and the newly named Lindsay Family Stage

On Our Feet staged reading captures the slow-burning suspense of the famed author’s psychological thriller

One-woman show draws on Marguerite Duras’s novel to tell the story of a French mother in 1930s Indochina

Tracey Power’s musical revue poses open-ended questions at the Firehall Arts Centre

In Hannah Moscovitch’s spare, blunt two-hander at The Cultch, tension lives not only in what is being said, but in how it is being said and who is saying it