Jessica Kirson and Jon Steinberg (below) launch this year’s Chutzpah! Festival on Feb. 18. (photo from Chutzpah!) Everyone who likes to laugh should attend the opening night of this year’s Chutzpah! Festival on Thursday, Feb. 18, at Rothstein Theatre. Watch a…
Hannah Moscovitch (photo from Hannah Moscovitch) Not one normally drawn to psychological thrillers, Little One intrigues me, in large part because its playwright, Hannah Moscovitch, has such an impressive track record. She has not only won multiple awards for her…
In a Blue Moon tours the Lower Mainland, and beyond. (photo by Barbara Zimonick) From the première of Strange Bedfellows on Broadway in 1948 to today’s Skylight, audiences have enjoyed the plots of mismatched individuals thrown together who somehow weave…
The comedy team of Rabbi Bob Alpert and Ahmed Ahmed on their August 2015 Laugh in Peace Tour. (photo from Laugh in Peace) “Both Jews and Muslims have a lot in common. What are we fighting over? Jews and Muslims…
Gallim Dance (photo from Gallim Dance) Tickets are now on sale for the 16th annual Chutzpah! Lisa Nemetz International Jewish Performing Arts Festival. The 2016 festival will run from Feb. 18 to March 13, and it will once again showcase…
William Samples and Christine McBeath in People, now at Jericho Arts Centre until Nov. 29. (photo by Adam Henderson) Character actors are like wine – they only get better with age. Nowhere is this more evident than in the United…
From Hofesh Shechter’s barbarians trilogy. (photo by Gabriele Zucca) Before barbarians was even created, DanceHouse had included the Hofesh Shechter trilogy in its 2015/16 season. “Programming work before you have had the chance to view and experience it yourself is…
Zander Meisner is a swing in the touring production of Once that will be in Vancouver Nov. 17-22. (photo by Once Tour Company © Joan Marcus) Most of us can only dream about what it would be like to have…
Imagine finding a play so funny and thought-provoking that you just had to mount a production of it in your hometown – and you actually had the talent and wherewithal to do it. Famous Artists Limited’s Bill Allman saw Joshua…
Goldie Hoffman is set to play the character of Daphna in Bad Jews, a play by Joshua Harmon. It will be in Vancouver at Rothstein Theatre from Nov. 10-21, directed by Jay Brazeau and produced by Famous Artists Limited. For…
