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Mammoth Edward Yang retrospective launches at the Cinematheque to April 29

The series opens with A Confucian Confusion and includes both Yi Yi and the epic A Brighter Summer Day

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGAdrian MackMarch 26, 2024The Cinematheque, Spring 2024, Edward Yang

Hairspray brings larger-than-life updos and campy songs to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, April 2 to 7

Broadway Across Canada presentation is helmed by same Tony Award-winning creative team from 2002 Broadway musical

WHAT'S STIRRING, THEATREJanet SmithMarch 25, 2024Broadway Across Canada, Broadway

Horizons and Of and About Posters bring together two like-minded mavericks, at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Late conceptualist pioneers Lawrence Weiner and Garry Neill Kennedy, friends in life, are celebrated in twinned posthumous exhibits

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMarch 13, 2024Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra takes a trip through John Williams’s classic score, screening Raiders of the Lost Ark, March 21 and 22

Led by conductor Andrew Crust, the VSO accompanies the 1981 classic at the Orpheum

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICAdrian MackMarch 13, 2024VSO

Masked theatre troupe WONDERHEADS brings The Wilds to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, March 17

Wordless performance incorporates whimsical puppetry to tell the story of a man in search of his missing wife

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 12, 2024Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, WONDERHEADS, Spring 2024

Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz plays a program full of beauty, with Vancouver Chopin Society March 13

Alongside pieces from the group’s namesake, celebrated artist performs Mozart, Debussy, and Szymanowski

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 10, 2024Vancouver Chopin Society, piano

Ava DuVernay's widely acclaimed Origins arrives at VIFF Centre March 8, 12, and 13

Aunjanue L. Ellis-Taylor stars in a triumphant and unusual adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 8, 2024Vancouver International Film Festival

Karol Szymanowski Quartet performs a piece by its Polish namesake at the Vancouver Playhouse, March 12

Concert hosted by Friends of Chamber Music also features Romantic-era works by Haydn, Britten, and Mendelssohn

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 7, 2024Friends of Chamber Music, Spring 2024

Conan Amok's arresting butoh solo The Folds redefines "virtuosity" at VIDF to March 9

Alumnus of Japan’s acclaimed Dairakudakan takes a physically stunning journey through death and consciousness

DANCE, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 7, 2024VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival, butoh

Puppets navigate dreary Cementland in Frog Belly Rat Bone at Anvil Theatre, March 8 and 9

Children’s show based on book by Timothy Basil Ering teaches of the beauty that can come from a little effort and patience

WHAT'S STIRRING, THEATREJanet SmithMarch 5, 2024Anvil Theatre, Axis Theatre, Spring 2024

MOI–Momentum of Isolation takes a multimedia look at our wired existence, at the Firehall Arts Centre March 6 to 9

Fully realized production integrates powerhouse group numbers and solos, projections, and even puppets to capture digital disconnection

In Sacred & Profane, Vancouver Chamber Choir concert spans iron's destructive potential to guiding lights, March 8 and 15

Lineup juxtaposes three classic choral works with three pieces written by modern-day composers

Mezzo Marion Newman stars as explorer Isabelle Eberhardt, in Song From the Uproar, February 29 to March 3 at the York Theatre

City Opera stages Canadian premiere of composer Missy Mazzoli’s contemporary work

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 26, 2024City Opera, Marion Newman, opera

VAM Symphony Orchestra expresses all the moods of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, February 25 and March 3

Maestro Ian Parker conducts concert of work that follows composer’s journey from melancholy to euphoria

Matriarchs Uprising Festival showcases Indigenous contemporary-dance excellence, February 19 to 25

Annual festival features all-women lineup with performances from Raven Spirit Dance, Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo, Louise Pōtiki Bryant, and more

All things azure, as Vancouver Cantata Singers perform BLUE, February 18 at the Annex

Webern, Górecki, and a premiere by Marcel Bergmann, plus more meditations on the serene hue

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 13, 2024Vancouver Cantata Singers, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Celebrate LOVE MONTH at The Improv Centre with a variety of February Valentine's Day events

Check out Gal-entine’s Day on February 13, and even some shows for those who hate V-day with a passion

WHAT'S STIRRING, COMEDYJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2024The Improv Centre, Valentine's Day

Hannah Moscovitch’s sex-positive play Bunny gets a remount at the Anvil Theatre, February 8 to 18

Directed by Mindy Parfitt of The Search Party, production follows an intelligent woman engaging in intimacy without shame

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 2, 2024Anvil Theatre, The Search Party

The Cinematheque celebrates Lila Avilés's The Chambermaid and Totém in double bill, February 2 to 17

Rising Mexican filmmaker is attracting buzz for richly written characters and atmospheric use of camera and sound

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 29, 2024The Cinematheque, Lila Alvarez

Guy Régis Jr. tells stories of migration through opera-theatre in L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie, February 3 and 4

Through chorus song, live guitar, and more, Haitian director’s Creole-French production navigates experiences of uprooted families, care of Théâtre la Seizième, PuSh Festival, and SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 27, 2024Theatre la Seizieme, PuSh Festival, NOUS Theatre, SFU Woodward's

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