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When & Where April 18 – 14, 2024; evenings at 7:30pm, matinees on Sat & Sun at 2pm | York Theatre, 639 Commercial Drive, Vancouver Director
Lois Anderson Assistant Director Michelle Olson Set
Designer Cecilia Vadala Costume Designers
Alaia Hamer & Evan Ducharme Projection Designer
Candelario Andrade Lighting Designer Jeff Harrison
Music & Composition Andrea Menard, Kathleen Nisbet,&
Krystle Pederson Sound Designer Aaron Macri Choreography
Yvonne Chartrand Reviewer John Anthony Jane As part of the ongoing Femme Festival, You used to call me Marie written by Alberta Métis Tai Amy Grauman is presented as a cultural and historical drama with added music. It is also an epic love story that centres on a simple Métis woman and her soul-mate. Throughout the play we follow eight interconnected stories of two star people, who reincarnate to their earth bodies. Full review
When & Where April 13 – 28, evenings at 7:30pm, Sat & Sun at 3pm & Wed at 1pm | Firehall Arts Centre, 280 E. Cordova Street Director Donna Spencer and Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen Set Design Kimira Reddy Costume Design Sydney Cavanagh Lighting Designer Rebekah Johnson Sound Design MJ Coomber Reviewer Nancie Ottem Keith
Barker captures the essence of loss in his play This Is How We Got
Here. The play is cleverly structured to enhance the feelings that
come with grief. For instance, there are four actors in this play, Lucille
(Tasha Faye Evan) the mother, Paul (Gordon Patrick White) the father,
Liset (Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen) the aunt and Lucille’s sister
and Jim (Darcey Johnson) the uncle and Paul’s friend. For the
most part two characters are on stage at one time or one lone character
simulating the isolation one feels in grief. Full
review
When & Where April 11 to May 2, 2024; evenings Tue – Thu at 7:30pm, Fri & Sat at 8pm, matinees on Wed at 1:30pm and Sat & Sun at 2pm | Granville Island Stage, 1585 Johnston Street, Vancouver Director Diana Donnelly Set Design Amir Ofek Costume Design Alaia Hamer Sound Designer Nancy Tam Lighting Design Kyla Gardiner Reviewer Nancie Ottem This is a laugh out loud production. A production where one leaves the theatre feeling so good to have been laughing out loud with bursts of spontaneity. First premiered twenty years ago on the Arts Club stage, the script written by playwright Michele Rimi resonates today with the ubiquitous topics of married life. Full review
When & Where April 4 – 14, 2024; evenings at 7:30pm, matinees on Sat & Sun at 2pm | The Cultch Historic Theatre, 1895 Venables Street Director Panthea Vetandoost Costume Design Elika Mojtabaei Lighting Design Jonathan Kim Projection Design Joel Grinke Sound Design and Composer Ruby Singh Stage Managers Jessica Bournival & Evan Ren Reviewer Shakeela Begum In a compelling collaboration between Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (vAct) and Medusa Theatre Society (MTS), Parifam emerges as a touching narrative that delves deep into the complexities of relationships, memory, and cultural identity. Playwright Aki Yaghoubi, alongside director Panthea Vatandoost, crafts a world that resonates with the heartache and power of revisiting the past. Full review
When & Where April 27, 2024; Tues - Fri at 8pm, Sat at 2pm and 8pm & Sun at 1pm and 6:30pm | Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Director Matt Lenz Original Director Jack O'Brien Choreographer Robbie Roby Original Choreographer Jerry Mitchell Music Director Lizzie Webb Scenic Design David Rockwell Tour Lighting Design Paul Miller Costume Design William Ivey Long Sound Design Shannon Slaton Reviewer Elizabeth Paterson Fast, fun and very loud, Hairspray spritzed its way onto the QE stage with charm and pizzazz. Set in Baltimore in the early years of the civil rights movement schools have been integrated, after a fashion, and the local TV station’s Dance program features a monthly Negro Day. Our hero, Tracy Turnblad, is a girl of generous proportions, large ambition, strong character and big hair. The last gets her into trouble in school and the first means she is considered too fat to even audition for The Corny Collins Show. But in the school’s detention room she meets Seaweed J. Stubbs (Josiah Rogers), a Black student who teaches her some new moves. That’s all she needs to seize opportunities and storm fortresses. Full review
When & Where March 21 - April 21, 2024, evenings Tue – Thu at 7:30pm, Fri & Sat at 8pm, matinees on Wed at 1:30pm and Sat & Sun at 2pm | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, 2750 Granville Street, Vancouver. Director Omari Newton Set Design Amir Ofek Costume Design CS Fergusson-VauxSound Designer Owen Belton Lighting Design Jonathan Kim Sound Design Owen Belton Fight Director Jonathan Hawley Purvis Stage Manager Pamela Jakobs Reviewer John Anthony Jane Chakrabarti’s
historical pièce de théâtre centres on
black American actor Ira Aldridge and his radical (at the time) casting
in the role of Othello at the famous Theatre Royal in London, following
the physical collapse of celebrated Shakespearean stage actor Edmond
Kean. Full
review
When & Where March 16 - April 6 2024, evenings at 8pm, matinees on Sundays at 2pm | Metro Theatre, 1370 MarineDrive SW, Vancouver Director Claude A. Giroux Set Design Nicholas Boughen Costume Design Iryna Steller & Tiffany Bishop Fight Coordinator Adara Broyles Lighting Design Michael Smith Lighting Operator Janice Howell Sound Design Janice Howell Stage Manager Janice Howell Reviewer Christian Steckler Successful
farce is a complex product of witty writing, strategic situations aimed
at eliciting genuine laughter, fastidiously borderline (or not) exaggerated
acting, and timing, all dependent on flawless technical production.
This co-production of Noises Off is all of these, in a madcap story
of actors putting on a play.
Full review
When & Where March 22 – April 14, 2024; Thurs. - Sat evenings at 8pm, Sun matinees at 2pm; Talk backs: Thursday 28th and Sunday 31st | Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery St Director Ron Reed Set Design Hans Saefkow Costume Design Rosie Aiken Lighting Design Mark Carter Sound Design Rick ColhounTechnical Director Leighton Taylor Stage Manager Maddy Woodley Cast: Carrie Watts Erla Faye Forsyth Ludie Watts Richard Meen Jessie Mae Watts Kapila Rego Thelma Cassie Unger Houston Ticket Agent 1 Braedon Grover Sunnes Houston Ticket Agent 2 David Underhill Harrison Station Agent Stephen Elcheshen Sheriff Oliver de la Harpe Travellers Courtney Klassen, Mercedes Lovemore, Courtney Vandiver, Melanie Vizuete Reviewer Ellizabeth Paterson Luminous
is the only word for Erla Faye Forsyth’s portrayal of Carrie Watts.
Carrie Watts is an elderly woman stuck with her under-achieving son
and bullying daughter-in-law in a cramped Houston apartment. What she
has longed for, for many years, is to return to her idyllic childhood
home in Bountiful, a small farming community near the Gulf of Mexico.
The family though needs her pension cheque and have thwarted her attempts
to take the train home. One day, she escapes.
Full review
When &
Where
March 14, 2024 | The Improv Centre, 1502 Duranleau Street Reviewer Eve Newstead I'm not sexist but women just aren’t as funny as men. Ever heard that one before? Of course you have. Comedy is just another arena dominated by men. So for The Improv Centre to insist on an International Women’s Day event, even if itrequired being held a week late, set the tone for a night with an electric atmosphere Full review
When & Where March 8-17, 2024, evenings at 8pm, matinees: March 10, 13, & 17 at 1pm | Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright Street Director Aaron Craven Set Designer David Roberts Costume Designer Julie White Lighting Designer Hina Nishioka Stage Manager Susan Curril Reviewer Shakeela Begum An Intervention, crafted by Olivier Award-winning playwright Mike Bartlett and directed by Aaron Craven, delves into the complexities of friendship amidst personal and political divides. This play aims to hold a mirror to the nuanced dynamics of relationships challenged by external pressures. Full review
 Fay Theatre/Excavation Theatre GRACIE by Joan Macleod When & Where February 22 – 25, 2024; evenings at 7pm & Sun at 2pm | Vancity Culture Lab, 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver Director
Jessica Anne Nelson Sound Designer Shona Struthers Reviewer John Jane Gracie is a one woman play based on supposed events by British Columbia playwright Joan MacLeod. It centres on the story of Gracie, an eight-year-old girl who travels by road from Utah to BC with her family: a (now) single mother, an older brother and two older sisters. Full review
When & Where Feb 8 - 23, 2023, Tuesday to Saturday at 7:30 pm, Sat. 17th at 2pm and 7.30pm & Sundays at 2 pm | Historic Theatre, 1895 Venables St., Vancouver Director Ryan Gladstone Original Score Drew Jurecka Set Design Alexandra Caprara Lighting Design Jon Paterson & Jude Weismiller Costume Design Nita Bowerman Stage Manager Taylor MacKinnon Reviewer Elizabeth Paterson Juliet: a Revenge Comedy is a giddy romp conducted by one of Shakespeare’s most memorable heroines. A deliciously post-modern Juliet (Lili Beaudoin) rebels against the constant re-iteration of her inevitable suicide and breaks through the fourth wall – visible to her - to go on a quest to write her own life. She stumbles on a book dropped by William Shakespeare. (Ryan Gladstone as a wildly improbably Shakespeare, by the way, big and bursting, a bit clumsy and dressed as a woman.) Full review |
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The
Cultch in association with Savage Society
The
Arts Club Theatre Company
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Asian Canadian Theatre and Medusa Theatre 
Broadway
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