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‘Hairspray’ in Vancouver for a week of ’60s-era music/comedy starting April 2

Starting Tuesday night (April 2), Broadway Across Canada brings the musical comedy…

 

Lex Diersch plays Puck in the Trinity Western University’s farewell production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, opening Tuesday at the Langley campus. The show runs through to March 23. (Jef Gibbons, TWU/Special to Langley Advance Times)

Thespians hit stage for last time at Lower Mainland university

Curtain goes up on Trinity Western farewell production, after a 2021 decision to axe theatre program

 

“Disney’s The Lion King” is among Broadway Across Canada musicals touring to Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre in 2025. (Contributed photo: Matthew Murphy/BAC)

‘Lion King,’ ‘Beetlejuice,’ other big-stage musicals coming to Vancouver in 2024-25

Plays and musicals coming to Vancouver stages during the 2024-25 season have…

 

The Instagram feed of Lou Lou La Duchesse De Riere (Lauren Ashley Jiles) features this image of her Spider act. Costume: @manugeettoi Photo: @carl.theriault.photo

Glamour, power and punk rock defiance found in B.C. burlesque show

‘Burlesque has always been political and it’s always been radical but there’s an interesting shift’

The Instagram feed of Lou Lou La Duchesse De Riere (Lauren Ashley Jiles) features this image of her Spider act. Costume: @manugeettoi Photo: @carl.theriault.photo
Actors Chelsea Rose (as Rosalind) and Oscar Derkx (Orlando) star in “As You Like It,” produced by Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival in Vancouver starting in June. (Photo: Emily Cooper)

Beatles music, a wrestling ring and return of a hit at Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach festival

Newton’s Rose stars in a reborn ‘As You Like It,’ to play Kitsilano stage starting June 8

Actors Chelsea Rose (as Rosalind) and Oscar Derkx (Orlando) star in “As You Like It,” produced by Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival in Vancouver starting in June. (Photo: Emily Cooper)
Two scenes from “Pretty Women: The Musical” and four costumes worn by Adam Pascal and Jessie Davidson in the Broadway Across Canada production. (Photo: Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade)

‘Pretty Woman’ musical on Vancouver stage with original score by Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance

Short run for the show starting Wednesday

Two scenes from “Pretty Women: The Musical” and four costumes worn by Adam Pascal and Jessie Davidson in the Broadway Across Canada production. (Photo: Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade)
The cast of “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” a comedy production staged by Arts Club Theatre Company. (Photo: Eric Kozakiewicz)

Tears of laughter for ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong,’ a timely comedy from Arts Club Theatre Company

Actors struggle to go on with a disastrous staging of ‘Peter Pan’

The cast of “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” a comedy production staged by Arts Club Theatre Company. (Photo: Eric Kozakiewicz)
The Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival site at Vanier Park in Vancouver. (Photo: Maxine Bulloch/bardonthebeach.org)

Bard on the Beach returns with ‘laughter and magic’ of popular Shakespeare comedy this summer

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is the lone production on the festival’s BMO Mainstage

The Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival site at Vanier Park in Vancouver. (Photo: Maxine Bulloch/bardonthebeach.org)
Farren Timoteo in Made in Italy, 2022: set design by Cory Sincennes; costume design by Cindy Wiebe; lighting design by Conor Moore; photo by Moonrider Productions

Quick-change artist Timoteo hits the ’70s with hilarious ‘Made In Italy,’ his one-man musical

Arts Club show in Vancouver offers laughs about family, food, music and the life of Italian immigrants

Farren Timoteo in Made in Italy, 2022: set design by Cory Sincennes; costume design by Cindy Wiebe; lighting design by Conor Moore; photo by Moonrider Productions
Andrew Wheeler, left, and David M. Adams in “Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol,” an Arts Club Theatre Production at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage in Vancouver. (Photo: artsclub.com)

Full house for ‘Smoky’ Christmas musical as Arts Club show lights up the Stanley again

Dolly Parton-written songs are featured in old-timey retelling of Dickens classic

Andrew Wheeler, left, and David M. Adams in “Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol,” an Arts Club Theatre Production at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage in Vancouver. (Photo: artsclub.com)