Dancers Jeremy O’Neill, Ted Littlemore and Kate Franklin. (photo by Idan Cohen) Last May, Idan Cohen introduced local audiences to his reimagining of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice. He will share more of this ongoing work in EDAM…
Judy McLellan as Lady Russell and Roger Monk as Sir Walter Elliot in Metro Theatre’s production of Persuasion. (photo by Tracy-Lynn Chernaske) Who hasn’t wished for at least one do-over, a second chance? Who hasn’t made the mistake of following…
With his latest novel, We All Fall Down (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Vancouver writer and emergency-room physician Daniel Kalla covers both familiar and new territory. He once again postulates with scary enough realism what might happen if there were an…
Andrew Cohen takes on the lead role of Don Lockwood in Royal City Musical Theatre’s Singin’ in the Rain, which runs April 4-20. (photo by David Cooper) “I’m excited for audiences to see Singin’ in the Rain. The film is…
Comedian Robby Hoffman in action. (photo from Bell Media) Onstage, her energy is barely contained. She delivers lines in a clipped, almost angry fashion, sporting a tight bun and dark clothes. From contemplating pizza’s puzzling popularity, to sharing how one…
Linda MacCannell’s photograph of John T’Seleie. (photo from Drew Ann Wake) The new show at the Zack Gallery, Crossed Paths – which explores the connection between the Jewish and the Dene peoples – has its roots in the federal Mackenzie…
The original cast of Glory. (photo by Barbara Zimonick) I hope Glory inspires audience members to look up the Preston Rivulettes and learn how amazingly driven, committed, skilled and bad-ass these female hockey players were,” Advah Soudack told the Independent.…
Elon Gold performs in Vancouver on April 14 at the JNF Negev Gala. (photo from elongold.com) Comedian Elon Gold loves doing charity events, especially Jewish ones. The Independent caught him for a phone interview as he was on the road…
An image of drones filling the sky from Reva Stone’s Falling. (photo from Reva Stone) Multi-awarding-winning Winnipeg artist Reva Stone researched drones for three years and then began creating art to share some of what she had learned about how…
Camera in model, from 306 Hollywood. (photo from El Tigre Productions) Annette Ontell, the New Jersey grandmother at the centre of the glorified home movie 306 Hollywood, lived an ordinary middle-class Jewish existence for six decades at that Newark address.…
