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Holiday shows 2024: Stir’s ultimate guide to festive fare, from musical theatre to classical ballet

Seasonal standouts include a massive choral Messiah, and different takes on A Christmas Carol—including one with 10-foot-high puppets

East Van Panto star Steffanie Davis makes the switch from heroine to villain in Robin Hood

Triple-threat performer’s role of bad-guy Tony the Pony is part of a career that’s taking off—and busting body-image stereotypes

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 15, 2024East Van Panto, Holiday 2024, THE CULTCH, Theatre Replacement, HOLIDAY TOP 3 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

Theatre Replacement announces new international fellowship program for Vancouver-based artists

Four local performance makers will travel to the Noorderzon Festival of Performing Arts and Society in the Netherlands this summer as part of a research trip

THEATREGail JohnsonAugust 19, 2024Theatre Replacement, Maiko Yamamoto

Hold On Let Go performances disrupt conventions, push forms—and put unexpected objects at centre stage

Theatre Replacement and Company 605’s renamed and ever-growing series gathers experimental works at Russian Hall

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2024Theatre Replacement, Company 605, Maiko Yamamoto

Theatre review: East Van Panto: Beauty and the Beast ups an already pretty-much-perfect game

Powerhouse singing and pastel-hued eye candy are the added ikura on a wonderfully jam-packed maki

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 25, 2023Theatre Replacement, The Cultch, THE CULTCH, East Van Panto, Holiday 2023, Homepage feature

East Van Panto: Beauty and the Beast writing duo Christine Quintana and Jiv Parasram embrace the weird

Pair draws on contrasting comedic styles and deep roots in the ‘hood for The Cultch and Theatre Replacement’s beloved holiday tradition

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 22, 2023THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Theatre Replacement, Holiday 2023, Holiday 2023 Top 3

Theatre Replacement and Company 605 unveil interdisciplinary HOLD ON LET GO festival lineup, beginning January 23

Previously known as PushOFF, newly named annual event highlights experimental works by the likes of Hong Kong Exile and Mardon + Mitsuhashi

THEATRE, DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 16, 2023Theatre Replacement, Company 605

The Cultch celebrates 50th anniversary season with contemporary circuses, local premieres, and East Van Panto: Beauty and the Beast

The Search Party, Urban Ink, Neworld Theatre, frank theatre, Savage Society, and more local companies set to hit stages for 2023-24

Music review: Amanda Sum's New Age Attitudes has devastating details beneath its quirky surface

Vancouver singer explores simple pleasures and awkward truths

MUSICJanet SmithMay 12, 2023The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Theatre Replacement

Vancouver's Amanda Sum combines pop-up books, music in New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert

The genre-mashing artist’s new work celebrates introverts, awkwardness

Theatre review: East Van Panto: The Little Mermaid makes a fresh splash with its undersea antics

Kate Bush tunes, dangly kelp designs, fairy-tale take-downs, and even some deeper messages earn the 10th anniversary show cheers

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithNovember 23, 2022Homepage feature, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Holiday 2022, Theatre Replacement

Theatre Replacement's Best Life explores our attachment to domestic machines

Creator Maiko Yamamoto drew on family memories of suburbia and concern for the planet in audience-generated new work

Theatre Replacement's Town Choir sings in response to rising sea levels

The adaptation of the company’s acclaimed 2017 work relates to climate change as part of the City of Vancouver’s Sea2City Design Challenge

THEATREGail JohnsonJuly 12, 2022SUMMER, Summer Arts Guide, Theatre Replacement

At PuSh Fest, Theatre Replacement envisions a "future of a future we could never have imagined"

Do you mind if I sit here? grew out of the discovery of 16mm films sent to Vancouver from the USSR decades ago

FESTS, THEATREGail JohnsonJanuary 17, 2022PuSh Festival, Theatre Replacement, James Long, Marcus Youssef

In a COVID pivot, East Van Panto: Alice in Wonderland moves strictly online

It’s a virtual rabbit hole for the rest of the show’s run

NEWS, THEATREGail JohnsonDecember 27, 2021East Van Panto, the Cultch, Theatre Replacement, COVID, covid\, \

Theatre review: East Van Panto: Alice in Wonderland features little guys taking on e-commerce villains

Blazed caterpillars, banned bathroom breaks, and a lot of pandemic laughs

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 28, 2021The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Theatre Replacement, Festive, Festive 1

East Van Panto: Alice in Wonderland gives the topsy-turvy fairy tale a sassy update

Writer Sonja Bennett re-creates Commercial Drive through the eyes of a modernized protagonist

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 21, 2021The Cultch, Theatre Replacement, East Van Panto, Sonja Bennett, Homepage feature, Festive

Maiko Yamamoto, James Long among the Canadian artists selected to create installations for new Vancouver SkyTrain stations

B.C. government is working with Musqueam Indian Band, Squamish Nation, and Tsleil-Waututh Nation on a parallel process for Indigenous art for the Broadway Subway Project