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East Van Panto: Beauty and the Beast hits the York Theatre from November 22 to January 7, 2024

Theatre Replacement and The Cultch’s holiday tradition is written by Jivesh Parasram and Christine Quintana this year

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 23, 2023Partner Content, THE CULTCH

Theatre review: Te Tangi a te Tūī's acrobatic stories of Māori magical spirits speak eloquently to colonial damage

Indigenous language and oral storytelling traditions drive circus-theatre piece from New Zealand, commissioned by The Cultch and Urban Ink

DANCE, THEATRE, CULTUREJanet SmithOctober 21, 2023THE CULTCH, The Cultch

Blackout Art Society's third annual STAND Festival centres on immigrant and refugee artists, November 2 to 12

Several impactful theatre, dance, and music performances are on the lineup, along with workshop, art exhibition, and live podcast offerings

FESTS, THEATRE, DANCE, MUSICStir VancouverOctober 19, 2023Partner Content, Blackout Art Society

Massey Theatre hosts Kid Koala's The Storyville Mosquito, November 25 and 26

Production is performed, filmed, projected, and scored in real-time using 20 miniature sets, puppetry, and live music

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 18, 2023Partner Content, Massey Theatre

Theatre review: Peace Country looks at B.C. environmental issues from a complex range of perspectives

The often funny story set in a fictional small B.C. town is rooted in an all-too-familiar reality

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 17, 2023FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

The Wizard of Oz hits the Granville Island Stage from November 3 to 12

Show delivers songs, characters, and moments from the beloved 1939 film based on L. Frank Baum’s novel

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 17, 2023Partner Content, CTORA Theatre

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts hosts Arts Club production The Birds and the Bees, November 2 and 3

Canadian comedy abuzz with love, lust, beekeeping antics, and the artificial insemination of turkeys

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 16, 2023Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Arts Club Theatre

Theatre review: Someone Like You puts a triumphant, wryly honest new spin on Cyrano de Bergerac—and the rom com

Christine Quintana’s new play is by turns painfully funny and casually devastating, with a protagonist who struggles against fat phobia and relegation to the witty friend

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 14, 2023Arts Club Theatre

Stir Q&A: Tainui Tukiwaho talks about Te Tangi a te Tūī's unique meld of Māori culture, dance, and circus arts

Director-cowriter reflects on the safe creative space in unique collaboration between New Zealand’s Te Rēhia Theatre Company and The Dust Palace

Theatre review: Studio 58's The Tempest finds fresh energy, and hope, atop a garbage heap

Directed by Diana Donnelly, the show addresses climate themes and weaves in contemporary alt-rock and pop songs

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 10, 2023Studio 58, Shakespeare, Homepage feature

Playwright Pedro Chamale draws on experiences growing up in Northern Interior for Peace Country

Summer jobs in mines and mills have given theatre artist and climate activist unique empathy for those working in the carbon economy

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 5, 2023rice and beans theatre, FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre, Homepage feature

Upintheair Theatre presents The Array: An Exquisitely Sensitive Machine at What Lab, October 26 to 28

Lineup features The Library Performance Collective, Jarin Schexnider, Tamar Zehava Tabori, and Upintheair Theatre

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 4, 2023Partner Content, Upintheair Theatre

Pedro Chamale’s Peace Country kicks off Firehall Arts Centre's 2023-24 season, October 12 to 22

Production by rice & beans theatre address climate change from the perspective of northern communities

THEATREStir VancouverOctober 2, 2023Partner Content, Firehall Arts Centre

Theatre review: Fairview lulls audiences into a sense of security before pulling the rug out in provocative and hilarious ways

White, liberal, social-media virtue signallers beware: The Search Party play has you in its sights

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 2, 2023THE CULTCH, The Cultch, The Search Party, Homepage feature

Audiences help solve the case in Stage Fright 2: Murder at the Disco at The Improv Centre, opening September 29

1970s-inspired interactive murder mystery follows the same format as last year’s hit Stage Fright: Murder at the Improv

THEATRE, COMEDY, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithSeptember 28, 2023The Improv Centre

Studio 58 launches its 58th season with a twist on Shakespeare's The Tempest, October 5 to 22

Director Diana Donnelly’s climate change-centred show takes place on a deserted island made of garbage

THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 26, 2023Partner Content, Studio 58

Stage Fright 2: Murder at the Disco comes to The Improv Centre on Granville Island, September 29 to October 28

Groovy whodunnit set in 1977 moves along with the help of audience interaction

THEATRE, COMEDYStir VancouverSeptember 22, 2023Partner Content, The Improv Centre

In late Nisga'a playwright Larry Guno's Bunk #7, actors Kiefer Collison and Nick Dangeli tell a true story of Indigenous resilience

Directed by Marianne Brørup Weston with dramaturg Yvette Nolan, play about residential-school riot draws upon generational connections, humour, and strength