Tickets go on sale for Chutzpah! Festival's full lineup of live and online shows, November 4 to 24
Theatre, dance, comedy, and music, as performances return to the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre and other JCC venues
Comedian Avi Liberman
Aiden Cass and Sarah Hutton in Shay Kuebler’s Momentum of Isolation. Photo by David Cooper
Tickets go on sale today for the Chutzpah! Festival, which returns with a dynamic lineup of music, comedy, theatre, and dance from November 4 to 24.
The 21st annual event sees the return of performances to the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre stage—with full safety protocols in place—as well as digital streams. Acts are on offer from Canada, Israel, the U.S., and the U.K.
A Night at the Opera kicks things off on November 4, with a screening of the Marx Brothers classic film of the same name and an interactive concert by City Opera Vancouver, at the Rothstein.
In the realm of comedy, highlights include Israeli-American stand-up comedian Avi Liberman on November 20; Canadian-born, New York-based stand-up, storyteller, and writer Ophira Eisenberg on November 10; and the return of fest favourite Iris Bahr on November 23. (Tune in for Bahr’s artist conversation series throughout the fest.)
Contemporary-dance standouts include Project inTandem’s Deep END & moving through, it all amounts to something on November 6 and 7; the world premiere of Vancouver star Shay Kuebler’s Radical System Art show Momentum of Isolation; and Ballet BC alumna and Chutzpah resident artist Alexis Fletcher’s light in the rafters on a double bill with fellow resident artist Idan Cohen’s Solo for Orpheus, by his locally based Ne.Sans Opera & Dance, November 16 and 18.
On the theatre front, watch for Lilach Dekel-Avneri and The Pathos-Mathos Company’s The Eichmann Project - Terminal 1 on November 8; The Flame - An Evening of Storytelling on November 17; Surplus Production Unit - A Timed Speed-Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript on November 21 and 22; and UK-based theatre artist Tamara Micner’s audio installation Old Friends, November 8 to 12.
The music program boasts jazz combo Guy Mintus Trio with A Gershwin Playground on November 24; and pianist-accordionist Josh “Socalled” Dolgin with Di Frosh’s Yiddish tunes, November 19.
Single tickets start at $18 (plus applicable fees and service charges) and are available online on September 15 at www.chutzpahfestival.com or by phone at 604-257-5145.
Post sponsored by the Chutzpah Festival