Jennifer Lines and Andrew McNee in The Taming of the Shrew. (photo by Tim Matheson) Bard on the Beach celebrates its 30th season with an eclectic, nontraditional mix of three Shakespeare plays – a western Taming of the Shrew, a…
Left to right are Jennifer Lines, Quelemia Sparrow and Marci T. House, who form part of the cast of Lysistrata. (photo by David Cooper) At Bard on the Beach this summer, there is an eclectic mix of plays. There is…
Warren Kimmel (Shylock), left, with Charlie Gallant (Bassanio) in Bard on the Beach’s Merchant of Venice. (photo by David Blue) It is always hard as a Jew to watch Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, which has been characterized at one end…
Bard on the Beach’s The Merchant of Venice is set in modern times, where the character of Shylock, played by Warren Kimmel, is a high-powered businessman. (photo by David Cooper) Among the Shakespearean works being presented by Bard on the…
Pericles is one of the best Bard on the Beach productions this season. (photo by David Blue) If the thought of being transported to the mystique and exotic locales of the ancient Middle East appeals to you, then you must…
Bard on the Beach opened its 27th season with Romeo and Juliet. (photo by David Blue) William Shakespeare wrote a beautiful but tragic love story in 1595 and called it Romeo and Juliet. Its theme of forbidden love resonates with…
Left to right, Jay Hindle, Josh Epstein and Daniel Doheny in Bard on the Beach’s Love’s Labor’s Lost. (photo by David Blue) How do you get more people interested in Shakespeare? Give ’em what they want – music, song, dance,…
Josh Epstein, left, and Andrew Cownden in Bard on the Beach’s production of The Comedy of Errors. (photo by David Blue) It’s summer in Vancouver and with it comes sun, surf and Shakespeare – that is, Bard on the Beach…
From left to right, Anousha Alamian, Shawn Macdonald and Anton Lipovetsky in Equivocation. (photo by David Blue) From Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cymbeline, reviewed last month, the Independent moves to Bard on the Beach’s other two offerings this season: The…
Bard on the Beach’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one cheeky dream. (photo by David Blue) Summer in Vancouver brings the sun and, with it, things like beach time and bike rides, barbecues and picnics. It also brings the magic…
