Theatre

As part of Alliance Française Vancouver’s virtual-reality exhibition, Montreal artist uses suspended devices to orchestrate the flow of water in hypnotic rhythms

Electric Company Theatre’s latest work delves into a mythology-infused world where an incomprehensible loss reveals the shame and fleeting possibility that formed a life

With the Firehall Arts Centre hosting the first local production of the play since 2010, a look back on its legacy, its Lytton setting, and its acclaim

This holiday season, writer-director Shel Piercy gives the classic fairy tale a distinctly British panto twist

The North Vancouver playwright’s comedy reveals that love and personal acceptance can occur at any age

E.B. White’s timeless tale follows an endearing mouse navigating a world built for humans

Slavic-accented show revolves around a romantic evening gone hilariously wrong

Inspired by the artistry of Mexico, acclaimed production delivers a cultural experience that resonates long after the final curtain call

Playwright Yvette Nolan reimagines the life of Jordan River Anderson, the boy behind a monumental Canadian government initiative to secure equal health care for First Nations youth

In medium-budget category, shows like The Effect, Fire Never Dies, and People, Places & Things stand out, while small-budget division features diverse field of nominees

Playing at the Firehall Arts Centre and Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, new musical draws on research into volunteer nurses

Gender-bending Arts Club production of Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen’s gothic comedy includes plenty of absurd humour and one perfectly cast vampire

Playwright Ronit Rubinstein’s solo show delves into her relationship with her late father through objects and memories he left behind

Four-time Tony Award–winning rock musical takes audiences on a wild ride through themes of identity, heartbreak, and belonging

In new Electric Company Theatre play, premiering at the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, real grief over his sister mixes with fictional elements and age-old myth

The touring production returns to Vancouver after seven years, featuring a 14-metre rain curtain and giant treadmills powered by 28 car batteries

This time out, the Nunsense sisters produce a chaotic Christmas special for cable-access television

Willow Lewmos directs the darkly comedic solo show as part of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

Immersive theatre experience arrives just in time for spooky season, featuring freaky performances and mischievous sewer rats

With plenty of laughter, improv-comedy veterans Naomi Snieckus and Matt Baram candidly explore loss and how we attach meaning to objects

Award-winning filmmaker discusses his mission to highlight the unmatched diversity of wild cats in India

Hilarious production is bursting with outrageous innuendos and queer chaos

Actor Steffanie Davis plays three roles in the Arts Club production, including the gleefully unhinged, bug-munching Renfield

Running in repertory, two plays shine light on what people don’t always see

Keely Rois O’Brien’s season opener at Gateway Theatre has a simple message: if you don’t know how to say it, say it with cake 

Governor General Award–winning play about a father and daughter tells of loss and redemption, humanity, and survival

Riddled with language barriers and discrimination, the rice & beans theatre and Gokko Creative Society production grapples with the possibility of unity and acceptance

In a comedy by North Vancouver’s Peter Zednik, exes rekindle their connection, exploring what it means to come out of the closet at any age—and at any cost

Upintheair Theatre stages its latest installment, with What Lab, of a project that challenges local artists to respond to timely topics in science, nature, and astrophysics

A patchwork wall of TV screens, fun nods to found-footage horror, and other genre touches heighten allegorical messages of queer self-acceptance in Touchstone Theatre and Glitch Theatre show