Category Performing Arts

Presenting our stories

photo - Tamara Micner performs her one-woman play Holocaust Brunch this weekend at Chutzpah!

Tamara Micner performs her one-woman play Holocaust Brunch this weekend at Chutzpah! (photo by Sophie le Roux) “In recent years,” playwright Tamara Micner told the Independent, “I feel there’s been increasing discussion about inherited trauma in indigenous communities and in…

Vital, relevant culture

photo - Tale of the Eastside Lantern’s Shon Wong and Rosa Cheng

Tale of the Eastside Lantern’s Shon Wong and Rosa Cheng. (photo by David Cooper) Among the many artists participating in this year’s Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival is Jewish community member Elliot Polsky. The multi-percussionist joins the Son of…

Dancing to Beethoven

photo - ProArteDanza’s The 9th will première in Vancouver before heading home to Toronto

ProArteDanza’s The 9th will première in Vancouver before heading home to Toronto. (photo by Alexander Antonijevic) Ten years after its conception, ProArteDanza’s The 9th, a full-length contemporary dance performance, will have its world première in Vancouver at the Chutzpah! Festival…

Gotta Sing! marks 25

photo - Simone Osborne, left, Tiffany Rivera and Matthew Rossoff are just three of the alumni who will help Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! celebrate on Nov. 10 at the Rothstein Theatre

Simone Osborne, left, Tiffany Rivera and Matthew Rossoff are just three of the alumni who will help Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! celebrate on Nov. 10 at the Rothstein Theatre. (photos from the artists) “I never thought that Gotta Sing! Gotta…

Chutzpah! hosts Bernhard

photo - Sandra Bernhard is at the Vogue on Halloween night, as part of the Chutzpah! Festival

Sandra Bernhard is at the Vogue on Halloween night, as part of the Chutzpah! Festival. (photo by Brian Ziegler) “When I was a little kid, I had three older brothers and I got a lot of attention for being cute…

A frantically funny farce

photo - Cindy Hirschberg-Schon, left, as Maria Merelli and Tracy Labrosse as Tatiana Racón in A Comedy of Tenors, at Metro Theatre Oct. 4-19

Cindy Hirschberg-Schon, left, as Maria Merelli and Tracy Labrosse as Tatiana Racón in A Comedy of Tenors, at Metro Theatre Oct. 4-19. (photo by Sophie Gardner) Tracy LabrosseTracy Labrosse“What could possibly be better than escaping life with a frantically funny…

It’s Bobby’s birthday

photo - Jonathan Winsby plays birthday boy Robert in Company, which opens Oct. 11

Jonathan Winsby plays birthday boy Robert in Company, which opens Oct. 11. (photo by Nicol Spinola) For his 35th birthday, Robert (Bobby), a bachelor, has invited a group of his married friends over to celebrate. And, married or not, you…

Yiddish Fiddler draws crowds

photo - Steven Skybell and Jennifer Babiak in the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s production of Fiddler on the Roof, which is slated to run through January 2020 in New York City

Steven Skybell and Jennifer Babiak in the Yiddish version of Fiddler on the Roof, which is slated to run through January 2020 in New York City. (photo by Matthew Murphy) It’s no wonder the current Fiddler on the Roof on stage…

Glimpse of 19th festival

photo - Sandra Bernhard performs at the Chutzpah! Festival Oct. 31

Sandra Bernhard performs at the Chutzpah! Festival Oct. 31. (photo by J. Graham) The Chutzpah! Festival returns during a new late-fall time period – from Oct. 24 to Nov. 24 – with performances at the Rothstein Theatre, Vogue Theatre, Rickshaw…

Premières & audience faves

photo - Artists of Ballet BC in a previous production of Bill

Artists of Ballet BC in a previous production of Bill. (photo by Cindi Wicklund) Ballet BC’s 2019/20 season marks its 34th anniversary year, as the company continues to celebrate life as movement. The new season features a North American première,…