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Stir Q&A: Srutika Sabu embodies a South Asian uncle in drag-king clown show at the rEvolver Festival

1 Santosh Santosh 2 Go touches on the model minority myth with hilarity and heart

Pelts, placards, and megaphones, as VALUE: Rebecca Belmore at the Museum of Anthropology disrupts display spaces

Famous works like Wild and Fountain create conversations about museum collections and the land they sit on

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 21, 2025Museum of Anthropology, MOA, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

Club Origami's folded paper allows kids' imaginations to flourish at Vancouver International Children’s Festival

Presented with Boca del Lupo, the accessible production by the U.K.’s Seven Circles encourages interactive learning

Elektra honours outgoing artistic director Morna Edmundson’s ability to “lead with love”

All-Canadian program Legacy celebrates spring and rebirth as Cassie Luftspring prepares to take the baton

Cree artist Michelle Thrush pokes fun and puts her own truth onstage as Kookum Martha

In Inner Elder at the Firehall Arts Centre, the Calgary-based theatre veteran draws on more than three decades of Indigenous clowning experience

THEATREJanet SmithMay 14, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

Theatre review: CTORA shows off triple-threat chops in gripping West Side Story

Moving into ambitious new territory, the company meets the many challenges of the Broadway classic and its still-relevant message

THEATREJanet SmithMay 13, 2025SPRING 2025, West Side Story, CTORA Theatre, CTORA, Homepage feature

Theatre review: Casey and Diana's portrait of early AIDS era builds to poetic climax

Arts Club play edges true-life story of Princess Di hospice visit into unexpected transcendent realm

THEATREJanet SmithMay 13, 2025Arts Club Theatre Company, Spring 2025, Arts Club, Homepage feature

Theatre review: Seventies-era touches bring high-spirited glam to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

With its flared costumes and feisty performances, Metro Theatre’s production of a Rice and Lloyd Webber favourite offers a quirkily fun tour of musical genres

THEATREJanet SmithMay 12, 2025Metro Theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

Book review: Rodney DeCroo's Night Moves focuses on the passing mysteries of city's sidewalks

With this gritty collection of street photographs, the Vancouver songwriter, poet, and playwright opens a new chapter in his hard-won life as an artist

ART & DESIGN, READJanet SmithMay 9, 2025Rodney DeCroo, Anvil Press, Homepage feature

At the Vancouver Art Gallery, Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar chronicles the destruction of a century-old dam

In Capture Photography Festival presentation, moving-image installation shows a bird’s-eye view of Klamath River restoration

Love and monsters stalk the backwoods of Kourtney Roy's macabre Kryptic

Ahead of a special live-scored screening, the renowned photographer and director reflects on “liminal spaces” and gore-filled supernatural encounters

Toronto’s SlowPitchSound tells stories through his sci-fi turntablism

At Vancouver New Music, Cheldon Paterson’s uncategorizable music fuses his love for nature with his taste for obscure sound

Live piano and raw love, as duo Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber craft their first premiere at Ballet BC's DUSK

Batsheva Dance Company alumni’s fascinating journey around the globe and onscreen finally brings them to Vancouver with Obsidian

DANCEJanet SmithMay 2, 2025Ballet BC, BALLET BC, SPRING 2025, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

CTORA searches out enduring truths in West Side Story

Seventy years after the classic musical’s debut, its theme of love transcending hate continues to inspire performers and audiences

THEATREJanet SmithMay 1, 2025CTORA Theatre, West Side Story, Homepage feature

Theatre review: Dance Nation taps into the innocence, understanding, and comedy of young stage ambitions

The offbeat logic of being a kid gets tangled up with adult social dynamics in Clare Barron’s acclaimed play

THEATREJanet SmithApril 30, 2025THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

Stir Q&A: At DOXA, Baljit Sangra throws a spotlight on an undersung Canadian jazz songstress

In Have You Heard Judi Singh?, Vancouver director interweaves archival footage, re-created moments, and mesmerizing music in tribute to late Punjabi-Black artist

Casey and Diana pays emotional tribute to the unsung heroes of the HIV/AIDS epidemic

Director Andrew Kushnir says Nick Green’s play also highlights the key role of the Princess of Wales in destigmatizing contact with patients

Theatre review: Powerhouse performances give fresh currency to 9 to 5: The Musical

Driven by humour and Dolly Parton tunes, Royal City Musical Theatre’s inspired take on ’70s-era office politics is boldly relevant

THEATREJanet SmithApril 28, 2025RCMT, Royal City Musical Theatre, Massey Theatre, Homepage feature

Music review: A poignant and resonant Madama Butterfly to close Vancouver Opera season

Set in the aftermath of World War II, updated production adds depth and nuance to the iconic work

MUSICJanet SmithApril 28, 2025Vancouver Opera, VANCOUVER OPERA, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

Every Day She Rose confronts echoes of 2016 in Vancouver premiere at The Cultch

Codirectors Cameron Mackenzie and Diane Roberts unpack the story of two friends struggling with political differences after the Black Lives Matter protest at a Toronto Pride Parade

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