Opening Ballet BC’s 2024/25 season Nov. 7-9 is the world première of Dawn, from French choreographer Pierre Pontvianne. Also featured in the season opener are Heart Drive, from Dutch choreographic duo Imre and Marne van Opstal, with music by Israel-born…
Jem Rolls’ The Kid Was a Spy is part of this year’s Vancouver Fringe Festival, which runs Sept 5-15. Other Jewish community members with shows include Rita Sheena, with Everybody Knows: Leonard Cohen Dance Theatre, and Theatre Terrific artistic director…
Dromio in The Comedy of Errors. Bard on the Beach runs into September. (photo by Tim Matheson) Every day, we are bombarded with news about war, hate, crime, inflation, the list goes on. How to make sense of it all?…
Advah Soudack (photo courtesy) I watched Hallmark’s Love, Lights, Hanukkah! on television but never imagined that I would meet the actress who played Becky Berman, the lead character’s half-sister. But Advah Soudack lives right here in East Vancouver. This spring,…
Nathan Kay as Sir Andrew in Bard on the Beach’s production of Twelfth Night. (photo by Tim Matheson) Summer is here again and with it comes that perennial favourite, Bard on the Beach. This year, the BMO Main Stage hosts…
Sarah Heyman and Jerry Callaghan co-star in Bema Productions’ Same Time, Another Year, which opens July 17 at Congregation Emanu-El’s Black Box Theatre. (photo from Bema Productions) From July 17 to 28, Bema Productions will be staging Same Time, Another…
Lenard Stanga as Hugh and Cadence Rush Quibell as Shiloh in Realwheels Theatre’s Disability Tour Bus podcast, which will be released July 17. (photo by Rashi Sethi) On July 17, Realwheels Theatre releases its new production, Disability Tour Bus, as a…
School of Rock cast members, left to right: Crosby Mark, Casey Trotter, Colin Sheen, Mya Forrest, Fumi Okochi and Thailey Roberge. Matthew Rossoff is choreographer of the production. (photo by Emily Cooper) Matthew Rossoff has returned to Theatre Under the Stars…
Chutzpah! Festival acting managing director Jessica Gutteridge. (photo by Tallulah Photography) After nearly 25 years at the forefront of Jewish arts and culture in Western Canada, Vancouver’s international performing arts festival, Chutzpah!, faces an urgent financial crisis. And it needs…
Karen Kaeja and Allen Kaeja in Lasterday. (photo by Kendra Epik) Featuring more than 30 performances June 13-22, Dancing on the Edge audiences will see world premières, Western Canadian debuts and works-in-progress. This year’s lineup includes the Vancouver première of…
