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The Boy in the Moon moves beyond tears in story about raising a son with a severe disability

Chelsea Haberlin and her team drew on the real experiences of parents from the Rare Disease Foundation

THEATREJanet SmithMay 3, 2021The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Neworld Theatre

Urban Ink Theatre artist Corey Payette wins BC Reconciliation Award

The multitalented force behind Children of God and other musicals joins the list of nine inaugural award winners

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithApril 27, 2021Urban Ink Theatre, Raven Theatre, Corey Payette

The 2021 Lawyer Show Online: Cabaret-A-Ganza takes a trip through musical theatre on April 23 at 7:30 pm

The annual tradition raises funds for Carousel Theatre for Young People and Touchstone Theatre

THEATREJanet SmithApril 21, 2021Touchstone Theatre

Theatre artist Derek Chan stages a lament for Hong Kong in multifaceted yellow objects

Via digital stories and an installation at the Firehall Arts Centre, the rice & beans theatre artist reconnects with home

THEATREJanet SmithApril 19, 2021rice and beans theatre, FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

Vancouver Fringe Festival announces departure of executive director Rohit Chokhani

The organization commits to “rethink and refresh” after a year of pandemic hurdles

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithApril 13, 2021

Vancouver stage icon Norman Young's legacy stretched from UBC theatre to the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame, and beyond

His Orpheum tours were legendary, and his volunteer work touched countless local cultural groups

THEATRE, NEWSStir VancouverApril 13, 2021UBC Theatre

Isolation Suite captures the soundscape of a man who's come UnDone

Theatre Conspiracy and Rumble Theatre audio series blends rock ‘n’ roll, poetry, and theatre

MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithApril 12, 2021Theatre Conspiracy, Rumble Theatre, RUMBLE THEATRE, Homepage feature

In the Beginning's Indigenous cultural-sharing sessions now streaming via the Firehall Arts Centre

Coproduced with Vancouver Moving Theatre, series features Indigenous elders and others tracing East Side history

THEATREStir VancouverApril 12, 2021Partner Content, FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

Affair of Honor offers furious fun in Playthings at PHT, April 8 to 17

The fight- and movement-based theatre and performance company livestreams a daring tale of mortals and gods

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonApril 7, 2021Theatre, Presentation House Theatre, PHT, What's Stirring

Theatre artists Nancy Tam and Derek Chan lead interactive audio play 蝦仔 Little Shrimp, at Carousel Theatre April 8 to May 2

Bilingual performance for kids age 6 and up looks at intergenerational bonds in Chinese families

PODCASTS, THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 7, 2021Carousel Theatre

This Is Something Else podcast digs into Arts Club and local-theatre history through conversation

Andrew Kushnir’s five-part series mines a half-century of stories behind Canada’s largest urban stage company

PODCASTS, THEATREJanet SmithApril 5, 2021Arts Club Theatre

The Essentials brings together musicians, poets, and scholars in search for what's needed, April 16 to 18

Khari Wendell McClelland hosts genre-busting concert experience, in The Cultch and Soft Cedar copresentation

THEATREStir VancouverApril 1, 2021Partner Content

The Quarantettes Bring in the Spring for isolated East Vancouverites

The uplifting story of four local theatre artists and musicians ready to sing in the season for those in need of a boost

MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithMarch 31, 2021The Chop Theatre, Neworld Theatre

Marcus Youssef's new short film Dust delivers a message from our dystopian future

The Vancouver playwright tackles climate catastrophe, data surveillance, and more in an intense and blackly satirical seven minutes

SCREEN, THEATREJanet SmithMarch 24, 2021VIFF, Neworld Theatre

Theatre review: The 7 Fingers find vivid new metaphors for pandemic limbo in moving Out of Order

The circus innovators serve up a dark carnival of aerial and acrobatic delights

THEATREJanet SmithMarch 20, 2021Les 7 Doigts, circus, The Cultch, THE CULTCH, livestream

Carmen Aguirre, Pedro Chamale star in audio drama Cloudless, to May 31

Writer José Teodoro’s suspenseful serial audio drama is loosely based on real events

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonMarch 16, 2021Pedro Chamale, Carmen Aguirre, Theatre, audio play, What's Stirring

The 7 Fingers contemporary-circus troupe imagines a world without the arts in Out of Order

The virtual show, streaming via the Cultch, features pandemic-era acrobatics and the beauty of the flawed

THEATREGail JohnsonMarch 16, 2021Theatre, The Cultch, The 7 Fingers, circus

Out of Order, by Montreal circus collective the 7 Fingers, bursts onto Vancouver screens

The Cultch presents the ground-breaking arts group’s new virtual circus experience

THEATREStir VancouverMarch 9, 2021Partner Content, The Cultch, Theatre

K Body and Mind finds multimedia utopia in a sci-fi miniseries

Cyberpunk aesthetics and an action-packed soundtrack drive theatre artist Conor Wylie’s collaborative new online work with A Wake of Vultures

THEATREStir VancouverMarch 5, 2021A Wake of Vultures, Conor Wylie, livestream

Stir Q&A: Behind the surreal stop-motion music-theatre video "We Teach Our Objects How to Speak Our Language"

Animator Margaret Krawecka talks metaphorical blinds, analogue machines, and patience, in new project by Theatre Conspiracy and Rumble Theatre

THEATRE, MUSICJanet SmithMarch 5, 2021Rumble Theatre, Theatre Conspiracy, Cold Calculi

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