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Part game, part theatre piece, New Societies looks to audiences to build utopia

Re:Current Theatre’s interactive production gets viewers collaborating, competing, and dreaming

Theatre reviews: Body autonomy and a queer-love rock-pop concert, as rEvolver fest swings into motion

SEETHERED joins four women in a hospital waiting room, while Passenger Seat cranks up the fog machines

THEATREJanet SmithMay 27, 2022rEvolver Festival, Upintheair Theatre, Homepage feature

Teatret Gruppe 38 conjures delicate, low-tech magic at the Vancouver International Children's Festival

A Story of a House That Turned Into a Dot blends shadow puppetry, storytelling, and music in an intimate show that explores a big emotion

Theatre review: Hamilton still feels artistically revolutionary as it finally hits Vancouver

Performances are strong across the board, and a lot of the singing sounds excitingly “street”

THEATREJanet SmithMay 26, 2022Hamilton

In Yellow Fever, actor Hiro Kanagawa plays with hardboiled-detective tropes in 1970s Powell Street

The actor-playwright finds the comedy-mystery’s themes of racism all too timely

THEATREJanet SmithMay 25, 2022FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre, Hiro Kanagawa, SPRING, Spring Guide 2022

Mashing forms and exploring identity, as rEvolver Festival returns with live performances

Gender? I Hardly Know Them mixes sketch comedy and true monologues to spread “Prairie queer joy”

COMEDY, THEATREJanet SmithMay 20, 2022Upintheair Theatre, rEvolver Festival, Homepage feature

Pi Theatre presentation of This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear asks friends and strangers to read together out loud

Writer-performer David Gagnon Walker leads a journey of worry and wonder as part of Pi Provocateur Series

THEATREJanet SmithMay 19, 2022Pi Theatre, Pi Provocateurs

Arts Club Theatre Company announces cast and creative team for Kinky Boots

The blockbuster Broadway spectacular struts onto the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage June 9 to July 31

THEATREJanet SmithMay 19, 2022Partner Content, Arts Club Theatre, SUMMER

A Cultural Celebration MENAT Style! mixes together storytelling, music, and food

Medusa Theatre team created monologues out of real memories from immigrants from the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey

THEATRE, CULTUREJanet SmithMay 18, 2022Rumble Theatre, RUMBLE THEATRE, Medusa Theatre, MENAT, SPRING

Loss of small-town landmarks gives rise to Québécois playwright André Gélineau's S’effondrent les vidéoclubs

With humour and colourful characters, new play explores the parallels between a dying lake, a doomed videostore, and solitudes

THEATREGail JohnsonMay 18, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Theatre la Seizieme, French

Celebrating Asian Excellence poster campaign marks Asian Heritage Month with message of positivity and promise

Boca del Lupo’s The Fishbowl on Granville Island and theatres across Canada display the new, rallying words and faces

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithMay 16, 2022Boca del Lupo, BOCA DEL LUPO, Sherry J Yoon, Asian Heritage Month

The Biting School, Nancy Lee 李南屏, and Mohammadreza Akrami are Here For Now, May 20 and 21

Volume 3 of the cross-disciplinary art event features experimental theatre, sound, and contemporary dance

WHAT'S STIRRING, OPERA, THEATRE, DANCEJanet SmithMay 16, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, The Biting School, Nancy Lee

Drew Facey, celebrated set and interior designer, mourned by Vancouver arts community

Colleagues and friends are taking to social media to remember award-winning talent

NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithMay 12, 2022Drew Facey

Hip-hop-driven Can I Live? looks at how people of colour have been excluded from climate activism, online to May 15

Artist Fehinti Balogun on hand for watch party and talkback at The York Theatre, May 14

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRING, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithMay 12, 2022The Cultch, THE CULTCH

Firehall Arts Centre restages Japantown-set Yellow Fever for first time in 34 years, May 28 to June 12

Season-closing comic mystery by R.A. Shiomi follows hard-nosed private eye Sam Shikaze

THEATREJanet SmithMay 11, 2022Firehall Arts Centre, FIREHALL, SPRING

Cardboard, feathers, and street lights: a dreamlike 360-degree taxi ride from Australia's Film Camp

As part of Boca del Lupo’s VR Salon, stop-motion film Passenger speaks to the surreal experience of arriving in a new country at night

THEATRE, SCREENJanet SmithMay 11, 2022BOCA DEL LUPO, Boca del Lupo, Film Camp, VR

Théâtre La Seizième presents quirky, surreal S’effondrent les vidéoclubs

Quebec playwright André Gélineau’s surreal four-hander sits somewhere between fantasy and delusion

THEATREJanet SmithMay 10, 2022Partner Content, Theatre la Seizieme

Theatre review: Haunting Lampedusa takes a complex look at two lives in a callous global economy

Strong performances and atmospheric lighting and music intensify two thought-provoking monologues

THEATREJanet SmithMay 9, 2022Pi Theatre, The Cultch, Homepage feature

Theatre review: Himmat shows a father and daughter finding the strength to relate to each other

Strong performances and handsome lighting and projections help bring a universal family story to life

THEATREStir VancouverMay 9, 2022THE CULTCH, The Cultch, SPRING

Gavan Cheema weaves an immigrant story of family, labour, and addiction in new Himmat

Blending Punjabi and English, actor-playwright draws on stories revealed to her at her father’s hospital bed

THEATREJanet SmithMay 4, 2022The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Theatre Conspiracy, SPRING

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