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Metro Theatre ratchets up the suspense with And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie’s classic play is one of the legendary writer’s most haunting and sophisticated works

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 21, 2025Metro Theatre

Applications for Realwheels Theatre's second Academy cohort are open now to March 15

Performing arts training program for D/disability-identified artists will run from September 2025 to June 2028

THEATREStir VancouverFebruary 20, 2025Partner Content, Realwheels Theatre, Adam Grant Warren

Theatre review: Primary Trust finds simple wisdom in small-town life

Andrew Broderick leads a versatile cast through Eboni Booth’s quietly endearing play

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 19, 2025Arts Club Theatre Company, eboni booth, Andrew Broderick

At Western Front, Fish Tail unfolds as an epistolary narrative, February 20

The one-woman performance and installation is by Montreal’s Marie Ségolène Brault

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 16, 2025Western Front

Théâtre la Seizième presents a staged reading of À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou, February 21 and 22

Sébastien David directs Michel Tremblay’s tragic play as part of the ÉCHO(S) series

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2025Theatre la Seizieme, Théâtre la Seizième, French theatre, French

Theatre review: Women of the Fur Trade is a clever, anarchic take on Canadian history

Every performance, under Donna Spencer’s breezy direction, is consistently funny and fully realized

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 14, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, Donna Spencer

A world premiere, Indigenous satire and musical, and more as The Cultch presents four March offerings

Tickets are now on sale for Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer, How to Disappear Completely, Children of God, and Beauty and The Beast: My Life

THEATREStir VancouverFebruary 12, 2025Partner Content, the Cultch, THE CULTCH, The Cultch

Metro Theatre presents Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, March 1 to 22

After last season’s hit The Mousetrap, a new adaptation of a thrilling masterpiece by the queen of mystery hits the stage

THEATREStir VancouverFebruary 11, 2025Partner Content, Metro Theatre

Otosan makes a local comeback at Gateway Theatre, February 17 to 22

The puppetry show was a hit at last year’s Vancouver International Children’s Festival

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2025Gateway Theatre, The Little Onion Puppet Co

Theatre review: Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla. dives into wild mix of immigrant dramedy, wartime recollection, and musical interludes

Cast finds both humour and heart in Ruby Slippers premiere by playwright Abi Padilla

Actor Andrew Broderick forges connections in Pulitzer Prize-winning Primary Trust

In the Arts Club production, his recently laid-off and all-too-relatable character Kenneth learns to face a world he’s long avoided

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2025The Arts Club, Pulitzer, Arts Club Theatre Company, Arts Club

Theatre review: Wonderful Joe’s eccentric puppet characters fight the forces of gentrification

With a more melancholy undercurrent behind the biting laughs, Ronnie Burkett’s latest show gives voice to the marginalized and the misunderstood

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Ronnie Burkett

Women of the Fur Trade cheekily shifts historical accounts to tell women’s stories of the Red River Resistance

Frances Koncan’s play looks at the fur trade through the perspectives of a Métis woman, a First Nations woman, and a settler woman

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, Indigenous, Donna Spencer

Pi Theatre presents the world premiere of A Taste of Hong Kong, March 6 to 15

Brought to the stage in association with Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, production stars Derek Chan in a tasting class and history lesson

Theatre review: Lasa Ng Imperyo (A Taste of Empire) delivers biting critique of the role of imperialism on the food we eat

The show by rice & beans theatre presented by PuSh Festival and Boca del Lupo moves swiftly with sharp satire

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 3, 2025rice & beans theatre, Boca del Lupo

Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla. depicts a "sassy old lady" with a sense of humour

Abi Padilla’s new play draws inspiration from both of her grandmothers

Gateway Theatre presents Little Onion Puppet Company's Otosan, February 17 to 22

Heartwarming family adventure is told through puppetry, real wildlife projections, and an original score

THEATREStir VancouverJanuary 29, 2025Partner Content, Gateway Theatre, The Little Onion Puppet Co

A Doll’s House, Part 2 returns to Vancouver in Pacific Theatre presentation, February 5 to 23

Western Gold Theatre production explores the aftermath of Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play A Doll’s House

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 29, 2025Pacific Theatre, Western Gold Theatre, Melissa Oei

At PuSh Festival, Dimanche delves into the surreal way people live amid climate change

Belgium’s Chaliwaté and Focus Company joined forces to create the fantastical nonverbal production

FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 29, 2025PuSh Festival, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Puppeteer Ronnie Burkett’s Wonderful Joe asks us to suspend disbelief

The master storyteller’s latest play opens with Joe and his dog facing ejection from their longtime home, with seemingly nowhere to go

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 28, 2025The Cultch, Ronnie Burkett, puppetry, Homepage feature

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