Articles — Stir

Zee Zee Theatre’s annual storytelling project returns with The Rainbow Elders & Allies Collection

Community-engagement project gives people the chance to hear queer histories one-on-one, 20 minutes at a time

WHAT'S STIRRING, THEATREJanet SmithNovember 2, 2022Zee Zee Theatre

SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs releases more tickets for Old Stock: A Refugee Story

Hit klezmer-folk-fuelled musical now has an extended run from December 1 to 11

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 2, 2022Partner Content, SFU Woodward's

Theatre review: In magical-realist YAGA, strong cast brings folk-tale characters to complex, contemporary life

Colleen Wheeler, Aidan Correia, and Genevieve Fleming are outstanding playing multiple roles each in a play that reimagines the wicked old witch

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 31, 2022Touchstone Theatre, Kat Sandler, Roy Surette

Upintheair Theatre's cosmic-themed performance series returns with The Array

Three highly original new works explore the theme of Beyond the Knowledge of Humankind

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 31, 2022Partner Content, Upintheair Theatre

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

SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs reaches across country to work with Halifax's 2b theatre company

In latest ArtScape podcast and video, Michael Boucher speaks to Ben Caplan about the hit show Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, which returns here December 1 to 4

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 26, 2022Partner Content, SFU Woodward's

Mani Soleymanlou, in association with 40 creators and performers from francophone Canada, brings Un.Deux.Trois. to Vancouver

The national production is the largest to date in the history of Franco-Canadian theatre

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 25, 2022Partner Content, Theatre la Seizieme

Comedy review: Blueberries Are Assholes finds the absurd within the ordinary, at the Firehall Arts Centre

TJ Dawe’s hilarious one-man show will have you looking at just about everything in a different way

COMEDY, THEATREStir VancouverOctober 22, 2022TJ Dawe, FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

YAGA retells the story of the wicked old witch, from a powerful woman's point of view

The play by Kat Sandler launches Touchstone Theatre’s 2022-23 season

THEATREGail JohnsonOctober 21, 2022Touchstone Theatre, Roy Surette, theatre, The Cultch, Homepage feature

Theatre review: With energized performances, inventive Cabaret whisks audiences away to pre-World War II club

Site-specific show turns intimate Gastown space into an atmospheric Kit Kat Klub, complete with a catwalk stage, VIP-table telephones, and flapper servers

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 18, 2022Raincity Theatre, theatre review, review

Touchstone Theatre kicks off its 2022-23 season with YAGA by Dora Mavor Award-winning playwright Kat Sandler

The genre-bending comedic thriller conjures the dark magic of wicked old witch and legendary Slavic anti-hero, Baba Yaga

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 18, 2022Touchstone Theatre, Partner Content

Theatre review: With brutal honesty, Bad Parent mines the relationship perils of having kids

Comedic leads Raugi Yu and Josette Jorge bring biting story to hilarious life, often arguing their sides directly to the audience

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 17, 2022VACT, The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Soulpepper Theatre

Best Life invites audience to listen to their domestic machines, November 2 to 5 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Theatre Replacement’s participatory world premiere transports you back to the past, and forward into the distant future

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 16, 2022Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Theatre review: The Café plunges audiences into a voyeuristic role at a working coffee shop

Viewers are encouraged to eavesdrop on seven scenes in various languages

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 14, 2022Fay Nass, ITSAZOO Productions, Kafka's Coffee, interactive, Apothem Theatre

In Blueberries Are Assholes, writer-performer TJ Dawe explores the weirdness of everyday life

The Vancouver Fringe Festival stalwart goes for laughs this time out, inviting stand-up comedians to open his solo show

THEATRE, COMEDYGail JohnsonOctober 14, 2022

CALTAC launches Canada's first Latinx theatre-artist database

Free, accessible list will help build community across the country

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 14, 2022Partner Content, RUMBLE THEATRE, Rumble Theatre

Theatre review: Redbone Coonhound uses humour to dig at complexities of race, racism, relationships and more

The play by mixed-race married couple Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton nips at the heart

Raincity Theatre's Cabaret will "willkommen" audiences into a site-specific Kit Kat Klub, October 15 to November 5

The show comes from the same team who staged award-winning storefront Sweeney Todd

WHAT'S STIRRING, THEATREJanet SmithOctober 12, 2022Raincity Theatre

Vancouver plays Inheritance and The Piano Teacher among Governor-General's Literary Award finalists

B.C. books The Most Precious Substance on Earth, Time is a Flower, and All the Quiet Places also up for prize

READ, THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithOctober 12, 2022The Arts Club, Alley Theatre

Redbone Coonhound: How a mixed-race couple's encounter with a certain dog breed gave rise to a biting new play

Vancouver playwrights Omari Newton and Amy Lee Lavoie dish on how a casual walk led to heated discussions about race, power, and privilege—and to their first co-write as a married pair

THEATREGail JohnsonOctober 9, 2022Arts Club Theatre, Amy Lee Lavoie, Omari Newton, theatre, Homepage feature

Check out our Instagram @stirvancouver

CONTACT US

LINKS