Category Performing Arts

Secure a future for Studio 58

image - from Studio 58 Legacy Fund

(photo from langara.bc.ca) It’s 50 years in the future. You’re in your landspeeder, zipping along the desert horizon to the Langara oasis for the opening production of Studio 58’s 2065 season! It features the usual outstanding student acting and production talent,…

Whipping Man a must-see

photo - Left to right, Carl Kennedy, Tom Pickett and Giovanni Mocibob hold a seder in The Whipping Man. The symbolism of Passover is an integral part of Matthew Lopez’s play

Left to right, Carl Kennedy, Tom Pickett and Giovanni Mocibob hold a seder in The Whipping Man. The symbolism of Passover is an integral part of Matthew Lopez’s play. (photo by Emily Cooper) On April 9, 1865, the day before…

Family inspires playwright

photo - Caitlin McCarthy and Amitai Marmorstein co-star in What You’re Missing by Tamara Micner, which is at Chutzpah! March 10-15

Caitlin McCarthy and Amitai Marmorstein co-star in What You’re Missing by Tamara Micner, which is at Chutzpah! March 10-15. (photo by Tim Matheson) Playwright Tamara Micner returns to Vancouver in March for the North American première at Chutzpah! of What…

Relishing theatre life

photo - Rafaella Rabinovich’s designs from Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily directed by William B. Davis at the Jericho Arts Centre

Rafaella Rabinovich’s designs from Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily directed by William B. Davis at the Jericho Arts Centre. (photo by Steven Hooper) Rafaella Rabinovich always knew that she wanted to be a theatrical designer, and…

Connecting past with present

photo - Heather Hermant in ribcage, which will be at the Firehall Arts Centre March 5-8

Heather Hermant in ribcage, which will be at the Firehall Arts Centre March 3-8. (photo by Tim Matheson) As a graduate student, Toronto spoken word artist Heather Hermant took a workshop taught by Diane Roberts, a former artistic director of…

Dance launches Chutzpah!

photo - Maria Kong opens this year’s Chutzpah! festival on Feb. 19

Maria Kong opens this year’s Chutzpah! festival on Feb. 19. (photo by Guy Prives) The 15th season of Chutzpah! kicks off Feb. 19 with Tel Aviv-based dance troupe Maria Kong. Founded in 2008 by former Batsheva Dance Co. members, Maria…

One play, two opinions

photo - Left to right: Andrew McNee as Francis and Martin Happer as Stanley Stubbers in One Man, Two Guvnors at the Arts Club Stanley Theatre

Left to right: Andrew McNee as Francis and Martin Happer as Stanley Stubbers in One Man, Two Guvnors at the Arts Club Stanley Theatre. (photo by David Cooper) It’s always disconcerting when sitting in a theatre listening to everyone laughing…

Brodie lands Beckett role

photo - Leanna Brodie plays spinster Ms. Fitt (and the boy Jerry) in Blackbird Theatre’s Canadian première of Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall, at the Cultch until Jan. 24

Leanna Brodie plays spinster Ms. Fitt (and the boy Jerry) in Blackbird Theatre’s Canadian première of Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall,  at the Cultch until Jan. 24. (photo from Leanna Brodie) She is an actor, playwright, librettist, feminist, social activist – bilingual…

Portraying the mess of life

photo - Claire Hesselgrave as D in Wide Awake Hearts

Claire Hesselgrave as D in Wide Awake Hearts. (photo by Eric Chad) “I want love. I want only love,” confesses C, a playboy, amid a lengthy list of his shortcomings. A rare, vulnerable moment of honesty? Or is he merely…

Laughter guaranteed

photo - Left to right, Josh Drebit, Donna Soares, Allan Zinyk and James Long in Cinderella: An East Van Panto

Left to right, Josh Drebit, Donna Soares, Allan Zinyk and James Long in Cinderella: An East Van Panto. (photo by Emily Cooper) If Canada wants to be an energy super power, it’s going to have to run some pipelines through…