Ezralow Dance’s Open comprises many themes. (photo by Angelo Redaelli) Los Angeles-based Ezralow Dance kicks off this year’s Chutzpah! Festival at the Rothstein Theatre Feb. 15 with, appropriately enough, a work called Open, for its embodiment of myriad ideas and…
Alexandra Gerson, centre, says a few words at a Jewish talent show put on by Radio VERA last year. (photo from Radio VERA) “I have a dream: I want to bring together Russian-speaking and English-speaking Jews in Canada, to unite…
Mishelle Cuttler has the challenge of supervising the musical elements of The Events, which features a different community choir every show. (photo from Pi Theatre) In 2011, while he was out with his son, who was then 12 years old,…
Matthew Gindin takes a pause in his talk, The History of Jewish Humour. (photo from Jewish Seniors Alliance) On Nov. 24, the first session of the 2017-18 Empowerment Series started with a bang. Almost 80 people came out to launch…
Kelly Sheridan and Peter Wilson in The Realistic Joneses. (photo by Nancy Caldwell) The unfortunate truth is that we are all going to die some day. How we cope with our mortality defines our approach to life. Playwright Will Eno…
For the past five years, Jewish community member Adeena Karasick has been working with Grammy Award-winning composer/trumpeter Frank London on Salomé: Woman of Valor, a total art experience, groundbreaking in its interplay of poetry, music, dance and film. Karasick’s libretto,…
(photo by Baila Lazarus) Josh Epstein raises a glass to toast lyubov (love) in recognition of the theme of the hit play Onegin, in which he plays a jealous lover. In a rare opportunity, theatre-goers are actually encouraged to bring…
Nolan Hupp and Annika Hupp play two schoolchildren who protest to save the shul in The Original Deed. (photo by Gayle Mavor) When Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, z”l, sometimes known as the “Singing Rabbi,” visited Victoria on a concert tour in…
Left to right are Dávid Szigeti (cello), Erik Gow (who plays Alvin Kelby), Kevin Woo (clarinet), Wendy Bross Stuart (piano, music director) and Chris Adams (who plays Thomas Weaver), in rehearsal for The Story of My Life, which is at…
Wells Hill has its world première Nov. 24-26 at DanceHouse. (photo by David Cooper) “What does it mean to imagine a world where we are not connected all the time?” This is just one of the many questions choreographer (and…
