Who Walks In The Dark
Just in time for Halloween, White Rock Players Club offers a thriller involving a re-animated Egyptian mummy and a jewel with an ancient curse.
Tickets are available now for Who Walks In The Dark (Coast Capital Playhouse, Oct. 10-27), an adaptation by late playwright Tim Kelly of the 1903 novel The Jewel of Seven Stars, written by Dracula author Bram Stoker.
Helming the occult period piece is renowned actor/director Paul Kloegman (Humble Boy, Ladies of the Camellias).
Expect chills and special effects in the scary tale, set in 1898 at Karnak House, London, home of Sir Abel Trelawney (Ken Fynn), a distinguished archeologist who has unwittingly broken into the Egyptian tomb of an evil sorceress.
Murderous havoc ensues, involving Sir Abel’s daughters Margaret (Alexandra Wilson) and Judith (Krystle Hadlow), his housekeeper (Deborah Spitz), Egyptian servant Suleiman (Ryan Johnston) and colleague (and Judith’s fiancé) Christopher Ross (Keaton Mazurek).
Also caught up in the dead-pan, over-the-top melodramatics: serious Doctor Winchester (David Lloyd Austin), Romanian thief Tessie (Jane Mantle), and a comedic police sergeant who’s clearly read too many accounts of Sherlock Holmes’ cases (Bryce Mills).
Shows run Wedenesday to Saturday at 8 p.m. at the theatre (1532 Johnston Rd.), with a gala night Oct. 12 and 2:30 p.m. matinee Oct. 21.
For tickets ($18) and information, call 604-536-7535, or visit www.whiterockplayers.ca
Singers wanted
Pacific Showtime Men’s Chorus – based in Ocean Park and directed by ‘Mr. O Canada’ Mark Donnelly – has resumed rehearsals Monday nights at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s Church, 12953 20 Ave.
The small community chorus of experienced singers is currently seeking new members for all vocal ranges: lead, tenor, baritone and bass.
Offering a big sound in a variety of musical styles, Pacific Showtime has been featured at a wide range of Lower Mainland events, including show productions, concerts and private functions.
Male singers are invited to attend rehearsals to check out the group and, hopefully, join in.
Outside The Box
Outside The Box, the second annual celebration of fibre and textile arts, continues at local venues until Oct. 5.
The festival is aimed at promoting awareness of the rich versatility of fibre and textile art – from purely decorative to functional works.
White Rock Library (15342 Buena Vista Ave.) will feature displays by Piece Arch Quilters, Semiahmoo Guild of Needlearts (Sept. 27) and Christian Geissler.
White Rock Community Centre (15154 Russell Ave.) will be the venue for Outside The Box: An Exploration of Fibre, presented by Semiahmoo Arts and the City of White Rock, until Oct. 19, as well as the related exhibit by Don Welsh of Semiahmoo First Nation of his detailed model of an aboriginal fishing village.
Next door in Bryant Park, artist Alicia M.B. Ballard’s interactive art installation Interknots – which festooned trees with colourful fibre art but was interrupted for a week by unknown vandals who stole donated scarves – will make a comeback thanks to supporters in the community.
Mind and Matter Gallery, at 13743 16 Ave., features fibrescapes by internationally-known artist Pauline McLean Dutkowski, as well as wood sculpture by the late Arnold Mikelson and pieces by a variety of contributors.
White Rock Museum and Archives is in step with the exhibit, Baskets: Fibrous, Functional and Fabulous, a collection of First Nations basketry originally collected by the late Irene Maccaud.
Peace Arch Weavers and Spinners will be featured Sept. 29 at Semiahmoo Shopping Centre, while there will also be exhibits and workshops at Laura’s Fashion Fabrics and The Golden Cactus Studio.
Night On Broadway
The Surrey Food Bank is the beneficiary of 100 per cent of the proceeds from A Night On Broadway, a Sept. 29 Surrey Arts Centre concert tribute to musical theatre presented by soprano Debra DaVaughn and her husband, tenor Christopher Simmons, thanks to sponsorship by Envision Financial.
Joining DaVaughn and Simmons for a selection of some of the greatest music in Broadway history will be mezzo sopranos Tamara Croft and Cathy Wilmot, baritone Joel Klein, soprano Vanessa Coley-Donohue and award-winning ensembles of the White Rock Children’s Choir family directed by Sarona Mynhardt.
The show presented in both a 3:30 p.m. matinee and a 7:30 p.m. evening performance includes selections from Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Brigadoon, Evita, My Fair Lady and Leonard Bernstein’s masterwork Candide.
Tickets ($27.50, $25 seniors and students) are available from 604-501-5566.
Champagne Republic
Watch out for emerging club and show favourites Champagne Republic.
Featured last week in a high-profile gig at Vancouver’s Club 560 launching Vancouver Fashion Week, the band can also be caught Sept. 28 (9 p.m. show) and through October at a downtown venue, The Park.
