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When & Where November 16, 2022 - January 01, 2023 at 7pm with weekend matinees at 2pm | York Theatre, 639 Commercial Dr. Vancouver. Panto Online is available to stream on-demand from Dec. 17 - January 01. Visit the ticketing website here. Playwright Sonja Bennett Director Meg Roe Assistant Director Arthi Chandra Composer/Musical Director Veda Hille Stage Manager Joanne P.B. Smith Assistant Stage Manager Yvonne Yip Producer Andy Cohen Choreographer Amanda Testini Cast and additional credits can be viewed here. Reviewer Darren Cordeiro Presenting The Little Mermaid to celebrate a decade of Panto, the opening night guests were in for a delightful holiday treat as The Cultch invited us to be “a part of their world!” Pun intended for us true Little Mermaid fans. Full review
When & Where November 11 – December 4, 2022 | Wed - Sat evenings at 8pm, Sun matinees at 2pm; Talk backs: Thursday 17th and Sunday 20th November | Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery St. Director Adam Henderson Set Design Emily Dotson Costume Design Julie White Technical direction and Lighting Design Michael Methot Sound Christopher King Stage Manager Emma Graveson Reviewer Elizabeth Paterson Who would have thought that listening to Martin Luther work through his issues with the Church could lead to a hilariously entertaining evening? Davalos's subject inevitably brings to mind other playwrights who have engaged in vigorous dialectic, Tom Stoppard, Michael Frayn, John Osborne, but Davalos is his own man and the play is as funny as it is thought-provoking. Full review  Western
Gold TheatreSeventeen by Matthew Whittet When & Where November 3 – 20, 2022 | Wed – Sat @ 7:30pm & Wed, Thu, Sat, Sun @ 2pm | PAL Studio Theatre, 300-581 Cardero Street Director Michael Fera Costume Design Barbara Clayden Set Design Alaia Hamer Lighting Design John Webber Sound Design Shona Struthers Choreography Jessie Au Stage Manager Ingrid Turk Reviewer John Jane Half dozen friends meet in an urban park playground to celebrate the last days of high school. The characters in Matthew Whittet’s ensemble play are the same age – seventeen - one is fifteen, the younger sister of one of the hopeful graduates. The first thing you notice is that the actors are middle-aged (and older). Full review
When & Where Oct 13: 7:30pm (Preview), OCT 14–15, 18–22 7:30pm, Oct 16, 22–23 2pm | The Cultch, Historic Theatre, 1895 Venables St. Director Meg Roe Assistant Director Hazel Venzon Dramaturg Thomas Morgan Jones Set Design Sophie Tang Costume Design Brenda McLean Lighting Design Gerald King Sound Design Deanna H. Choi Stage Manager Katie Robinson Hoppa Reviewer John Jane Bad Parent (note the singular form) is Ins Choi’s satire on the complexities of marriage and new parenthood seen through the lens of a couple ill prepared for either. Charles (Raugi Yu) and Norah (Josette Jorge) have had their lives turned upside-down with the arrival of Mountain, their now eighteen month old son. Full review
When & Where September 30 – October 15, 2022 at 8pm WED – SAT; 2pm matinees on Sat. | Pacific Theatre, 1440 W 12th Ave. Director Diane Brown Sound Design Rick Colhoun Set and Lighting Design John Webber Costume Design Jessica Oostergo Properties Monica Emme Stage Manager by Nico Dicecco Reviewer John Jane Set in rural Quebec in more or less present time, this translated production of Fanny Britt’s play, initially intended for French language audiences (originally titled Bienveillance), recounts the homecoming of Giles Jean after seventeen years to a mixed reception. Full review 2022 Vancouver Fringe Festival
Performer Trent Arterberry September 13 - 18, 2022 | Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright St. It was a delightful surprise to witness Trent Arterberry’s incredible talent in his presentation of how success can enslave a successful artist, and threaten all that is dear to him. I say, “delightful” because Arterberry carries the show with such personal charm and gentle humour, and because his skill at mime negates the need for sets or props. Full review
September 8,9,11,12,13 & 15, 2022 | Arts Umbrella, 1400 Johnson St. Performer Gwendolyn Coburn Bostonian Gwen Coburn’s
sixty minute, one woman show covers a few bases – not all them
– but certainly enough keep her audience guessing and perhaps
even lose some on the way. She discusses topics that are convenient
and inconvenient, relevant and irrelevant... Full
review
September 10,12,14,16,17 & 18, 2022 | Carousel Theatre, 1411 Cartwright St. Performer Karen Hall Munching
her way through a SubwayTM sandwich, a tall slim blonde in
a long black gown explains how she got drawn into her career as a classical
cellist. It appears to have a career that chose her, rather than the
other way round. Eventually though, she does take her instrument out
of its hard black case and play the Prelude to Suite No.1 in G Major
for Unaccompanied Violoncello by J.S. Bach Full
review
September 8, 10,12,14,15 & 17, 2022 | Studio 16, 1555 West 7th Avenue Performer Rita Sheena The title of Rita Sheena’s artful, semi-autobiographical theatre/dance piece comes from a selection of Leonard Cohen’s songs. Sheena’s athletic choreography dovetails exquisitely to Cohen’s songs that include: “Everybody Knows,” Who by Fire,“ “You Want it Darker,” “If it be your Will” “Famous Blue Raincoat” and Hallelujah.“ The performer shows beautiful movement around the stage, interpreting Cohen’s music to imaginative dance syntax. Full review
When & Where Sept 9 - Oct. 2, 2022; Wed - Sat evenings at 8pm, Sun matinees at 2pm | Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery St. Director Sarah Rogers Set Design Brian Ball Costume Design Sheila White Lighting Design Mark Carter Stage Manager Jack Bumbala Reviewer Elizabeth Paterson The
Thursday Night Bridge Circle is set very specifically in the small
town of LaGrange, North Carolina, 1970. The Southern garden backdrop
(by Brian Ball), fronted by a beautiful, magnolia-covered scrim evokes
an aura of Southern grace and comfortable living. The unseen backdrop
though is a racism so pervasive that for many of those living in it,
it is invisible. Full
review Bard on the Beach  Romeo
and Juliet by William ShakespeareWhen & Where August 3 – September 24, 2022 at 7.30pm | Howard Family Stage, Vanier Park Director Anita Rochon Set Designer Pam Johnson Costume Designer Carmen Alatorre Musical Director Joelysa Pankanea Fight Director Jonathan Hawley Purvis Intimacy Director Lisa Goebel Lighting Designer Sophie Tang Stage Manager Jenny Kim Reviewer Christian Steckler Romeo
and Juliet is a time-honoured feature of all Shakespeare festivals,
yet patrons return time and again to enjoy this classic tragedy. Sometimes
traditional, sometimes changed to new historical periods, dress and
language, its theme triumphs over time. Full
review
When & Where June 15 – July 17, 2022 at 7.30pm | Howard Family Stage, Vanier Park Director Cherissa Richards Set & Costume Design Rachel Forbes Lighting Design Sophie Tang Sound Design Malcolm Dow Composer & Musical Director John Littlejohn Fight Director Jonathan Hawley Purvis Intimacy Director Lisa Goebel Stage Manager Rebecca Mulvihill Musicians Alexander Boyton Jr., Marlene Ginader Reviewer John Jane The
Harlem Duet time shifts between the 1860s, a period just prior
to the abolition of slavery and in 1928 that shows Billie and Othello's
relationship in analogue form; while the bulk of action takes place
in the time that the play was written. Sears draws inspiration from
Shakespeare's play Othello, though the characters and the story
are original. Full
review
When & Where 8 June– 24 September 2022, Tuesdays through Sundays at 7.30 pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm | BMO Mainstage, under the tents in Sen?ákw/Vanier Park Director Scott Bellis Set Design Amir Ofek Costume Design Christine Reimer Lighting Design Gerald King Sound Design & Composer Mishelle Cuttler Choreographer Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg Fight Director Jonathan Hawley Purvis Stage Manager Joanne P.B. Smith Reviewer Elizabeth Paterson Midsummer is almost here and magic has arrived early on the stage at Bard on the Beach with Scott Bellis' current production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Against the backdrop of a decaying palace in the aftermath of an eastern European war, Hippolyta (Melissa Oie), every inch a warrior queen and a uniformed Theseus, Duke of Athens will soon make a political marriage. Full review
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Cultch 
United
Players 
Vancouver
Asian Canadian Theatre (Vancouver)
Pacific
Theatre and Ruby Slippers Theatre 
United
Players 
Harlem
Duet by Djanet Sears