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Circa's Duck Pond reimagines Swan Lake with flippers, trapezes, and human towers

New twist on a classic ballet is full of beauty and wit, breaking new ground for the Aussie modern-circus troupe

DANCE, THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 15, 2025DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse, The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Homepage feature, circus, Circa

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day events for Vancouver arts lovers

Pantos, waltzes, and stage musicals are just a few of the ways for culture vultures to ring in 2025

DanceHouse and The Cultch present Circa's Duck Pond, January 22 to 25

Exhilarating show reimagines Swan Lake as a cheeky acrobatic spectacle in B.C. premiere at the Vancouver Playhouse

DANCEStir VancouverDecember 3, 2024Partner Content, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, the Cultch, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Circa

Theatre review: Big laughs as East Van Panto: Robin Hood satirizes a city bent on selling out

Outsized comic characterizations and power singing meet fearless political bite in Theatre Replacement’s latest musical at the York

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 29, 2024The Cultch, Theatre Replacement, Holiday 2024

The Cultch presents Theatre Replacement's East Van Panto: Robin Hood, November 20 to January 5

In annual holiday show directed by Anita Rochon, Robin Hood must save East Van from the rich and powerful when all city parks are suddenly privatized

Margaret Grenier pays tribute to matriarchs in multimedia Raven Mother

The Dancers of Damelahamid’s most ambitious production to date explores the precious artistic legacy passed down by Elder Margaret Harris

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 2, 2024Dancers of Damelahamid, Margaret Grenier, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Homepage feature

Cliff Cardinal raises necessary dialogue on uncomfortable truths in As You Like It or The Land Acknowledgement

In his one-man show, the theatre artist of Cree and Lakota heritage addresses empty land acknowledgements with unapologetic conviction

THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 24, 2024the Cultch, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Cliff Cardinal, indigenous, Shakespeare, Cree

Theatre review: Cirque Alfonse’s Barbu makes rowdy, undie-clad circus up-close-and-personal at The Cultch

Audience goes wild for an often surreal and literally cheeky performance of sideshow antics and gravity-defying stunts

THEATREJanet SmithJune 13, 2024Cirque Alfonse, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Summer 2024

Bare skin, beards, and beer kegs, as Cirque Alfonse brings Barbu to The Cultch

Antoine Carabinier Lépine and his troupe take wild inspiration from Quebec’s century-old circus sideshow traditions

THEATREJanet SmithJune 5, 2024Cirque Alfonse, Quebec, circus, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Homepage feature, Summer 2024

Frog choruses and short works tackle climate crisis at rEvolver Festival, running May 22 to June 2

Jami Reimer’s Soft tongues: a bioacoustic opera takes a sonic and video-enhanced trip to the Brazilian rainforest, while Neworld Theatre’s Earth Case Scenario presents short eco-works

Theatre review: Homecoming's intergenerational story of Filipinx women is at its strongest in the delicate details

Paper planes, food rituals, and more, in Urban Ink and The Cultch production that maps the connections and disconnections over decades

Theatre review: Fat Joke's brutally honest comedy-talk is a fearless indictment of fatphobia

Theatre schools, the BMI, critics, and casting auditions: everything’s fair game in a show that flips easily between biting, big laughs and darker reflections