Bard on the Beach’s production of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor is an adaptation set at a recreation centre in a Vancouver suburb, where the women’s soccer team has just won the local championship. (photo by Emily Cooper) World Cup…
Arghavan Jenati as Emilia Bassano and Nathan Kay as William Shakespeare in Jessica B. Hill’s The Dark Lady, now playing at Bard on the Beach. (photo by Tim Matheson) There has always been a controversy over whether William Shakespeare was…
Jennifer Lines as Beatrice and Sheldon Elter as Benedick in Bard on the Beach’s production of Much Ado About Nothing. (photo by Tim Matheson) For a Vancouver summer experience, almost nothing beats an evening at Bard on the Beach. The…
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?…
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…
Left to right: Tom Pickett, Advah Soudack, Kate Besworth and Karthik Kadam in Bard on the Beach’s production of Shakespeare’s Henry V, which runs to Aug. 13. (photo by Tim Matheson) Bard on the Beach rarely presents Shakespeare’s history plays.…
Oscar Derkx (Orlando) and Chelsea Rose (Rosalind) in As You Like It. (photo by Tim Matheson) What do you get if you mix a Shakespearean comedy with 23 Beatles hits from the 1960s and set the whole thing in Vancouver…
Ghazal Azarbad and Daniel Fong in Bard on the Beach’s Romeo and Juliet, which runs to Sept. 24. (photo by Tim Matheson) William Shakespeare’s tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet, about teenaged lovers who come together despite the objections of…
The company of Bard on Beach’s production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. (photo by Tim Matheson) The thespian delights of Shakespeare set against the glorious backdrop of mountains, sea and sky have been missed. But now, after a COVID-induced two-year hiatus,…
Bard on the Beach’s Done/Undone, written by Kate Besworth, co-stars Harveen Sandhu and Charlie Gallant. (photo from bardonthebeach.org) Throughout COVID, Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach has been unable to mount its popular summer festival at Vanier Park. However, it is…
