Category Performing Arts

Scratching below the surface

photo - David Bloom

David Bloom (photo from Theatre Plexus) There are a few remarkable things that one notices when looking at the press material for Scratch, which is being presented by Theatre Plexus at Havana Theatre until June 13. First, the play itself. Part…

Promoting new dance

photo - Dance Centre’s 12 Minutes Max features works from five up-and-coming choreographers on June 12. Pictured here is Con8 Collective: Charlotte Newman, left, and Georgina Alpen

Dance Centre’s 12 Minutes Max features works from five up-and-coming choreographers on June 12. Pictured here is Con8 Collective: Charlotte Newman, left, and Georgina Alpen. (photo by Andy White) An abundance of riches. Scotiabank Dance Centre’s 12 Minutes Max on June 12…

Try to make a visit to Heights

photo - Luc Roderique as Usnavi and Sharon Crandall as Abuela Claudia in Arts Club’s In the Heights

Luc Roderique as Usnavi and Sharon Crandall as Abuela Claudia in Arts Club’s In the Heights. (photo by David Cooper) Even before the musical starts, the set draws you in. Then the music, the lighting, the actors, the choreography. It’s…

Shakespeare remixed

image - Caroline Cave appears in a Shakespeare double feature, May 5-17artists.ca)

Caroline Cave appears in a Shakespeare double feature, May 5-17. (image from escapeartists.ca) Shakespeare’s plays are favorites with both actors and audiences. In Vancouver, the Shakespeare annual summer festival Bard on the Beach is a sold-out affair. This year, local…

My Fair Lady fantastic

photo -Tracy Neff (Eliza Doolittle) and Warren Kimmel (Henry Higgins) before the phonetics lessons start

Tracy Neff (Eliza Doolittle) and Warren Kimmel (Henry Higgins) before the phonetics lessons start. (photo by Tim Matheson) It was hard not to sing along. In fact, the couple in the row behind me couldn’t stop themselves on more than…

Farewell, my boredom

photo - Emma Slipp and Graham Percy in Arts Club’s Farewell, My Lovely

Emma Slipp and Graham Percy in Arts Club’s Farewell, My Lovely. (photo by Benjamin Laird Arts & Photo) Shadowy figures, damsels in distress, fedoras tilted just below one eye, ex-cons and gunshots galore fill the stage at the Art Club…

Modern Uncle Vanya

photo - Robert Salvador, left, Anna Galvin and Jay Brazeau in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Robert Salvador, left, Anna Galvin and Jay Brazeau in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. (photo by David Cooper) Ah, the trials and tribulations of brothers and sisters. It’s the few and far between who go through life without…

Anatevka brought to Abbotsford

photo - Arne Larsen as Tevye and Ruth Kult as Golde in Gallery 7 Theatre’s production of Fiddler on the Roof

Arne Larsen as Tevye and Ruth Kult as Golde in Gallery 7 Theatre’s production of Fiddler on the Roof. (photo by Dianna Lewis) Growing up in a Jewish home, I always cherished Fiddler on the Roof and its Sholem Aleichem…

Make time for Elbow Room

photo - Allan Zinyk as Patrice, left, and David Adams as Bryan in Elbow Room Café: The Musical (Phase 1)

Allan Zinyk as Patrice, left, and David Adams as Bryan in Elbow Room Café: The Musical (Phase 1). (photo by Emily Cooper) Allan Zinyk and David Adams are veritable doppelgangers for Patrice (Patrick) Savoie and Bryan Searle, who started the…

Dancing in gratitude

photo - Serge Bennathan with Erin Drumheller in Monsieur Auburtin, which is at the Dance Centre March 26-28

Serge Bennathan with Erin Drumheller in Monsieur Auburtin, which is at the Dance Centre March 26-28. (photo by Michael Slobodian) Serge Bennathan’s Monsieur Auburtin is an autobiographical work, which promises to offer “audiences a keyhole through which to rediscover their…