What’s on
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A brilliant concert violinist is forced to re-evaluate her life when struck down by unforeseen tragedy. She is led to examine her deepest emotions and finally to consider a future without music.
Jan. 20 - Feb. 12, 2012
United Players of Vancouver at Jericho Arts Centre
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The revealing true story. When middle-aged Annie Clarke loses her husband to leukemia, her best friend suggests a—ahem—cheeky new way to raise money for research.
Jan. 26 - Feb. 26, 2012
Arts Club Theatre Company at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
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A masterpiece of political power-play and manipulation, Julius Caesar examines the conflict between one man's ambition and the good of the state.
February 2 - 26, 2012
Studio 58
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As a Writer seeks inspiration for a new song, muses from his past battle for his attention while a new muse yearns to be noticed in this riveting fusion of music, dance and theatre
Feb. 3 - March 3, 2012
Firehall Arts Centre
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Now in its 12th season, the Risky Nights Series is designed as a bridge between classroom work and main stage productions. At the conclusion of their second year of training, students have an invaluable opportunity to create every aspect of an original theatre piece from start to finish with a professional director, and perform it for an intimate audience.
February 6 - 12, 2012
Studio 58
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A richly textured love story. It’s 1905. New York City. 35-year-old Esther is an independent African-American woman who makes a good living sewing exquisite undergarments and corse
Feb. 9 - March 10, 2012
Arts Club Theatre Company at Granville Island Stage
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A single seedy motel room houses these two one act plays and the world of one of Canada’s most accomplished playwrights, George F. Walker. Fiercely funny and equally heartbreaking.
February 9 - 18, 2012
Theatre at UBC at Telus Studio Theatre
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The 2012 Chutzpah! Festival is a vibrant celebration of the performing arts, showcasing outstanding theatre, music and dance from Canada and around the world.
Feb. 11 - March 4, 2012
Chutzpah Festival at Various Locations
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Nina Arsenault's story of her transition from an awkward man into a silicone bombshell, a process that spanned 8 years, 60 surgical procedures and a lifetime of preparation.
February 14 - 25, 2012
The Cultch
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Gadfly Productions presents In The Blue Room, a sensual story about 10 characters experimenting love and romance in 10 intimate encounters.
February 15 - 19, 2012
Gadfly Productions at Havana
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In Arthur Miller’s edgy masterpiece, a vengeful
teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft. A relentlessly suspenseful, and vastly moving drama.
February 15 - 18, 2012
Exit 22 (Capilano University Theatre) at Capilano Performing Arts Theatre
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One man. One mystery. No clue. Brilliantly written and performed by Chris Gibbs, who tells a hilarious story full of twists, turns and gadzooks moments.
February 17 - 17, 2012
Surrey Arts Centre
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This darkly romantic musical is a surprising new take on Victor Hugo's famous story from the multi award-winning team at Catalyst Theatre. Co-presented with The Cultch.
Feb. 18 - March 10, 2012
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company at Vancouver Playhouse
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A Comedy of Secrets
Arts Club Theatre Company On Tour
By Annie Baker
Director Nicola Cavendish
Feb. 18 - March 13, 2012
Arts Club Theatre Company at Various Locations
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A darkly romantic musical set amid the buttresses and shadows of Notre Dame Cathedral, Hunchback tells the tale of a tormented priest, a beautiful dancer and the deformed bell ringer Quasimodo.
Feb. 18 - March 10, 2012
The Cultch
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the 11th Annual Talking Stick Festival celebrating the Aboriginal communities traditional, contemporary artistic works that include dance, comedy, music, and slam poetry.
Feb. 20 - March 4, 2012
Full Circle at Various Locations
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The Talking Stick Festival is a 2 week, citywide celebration of Aboriginal performance and art which features world class local, national and international artists in a variety of cabaret, music, dance, theatre, storytelling and visual arts. Highlights include:
Our ever popular A Taste of the Festival Gala Opening ; our inaugural community Celebration of the Pow Wow Culture; the Wish Come True Writers’ Challenge; an evening of Aboriginal choreographers featuring Rulan Tangen (New Mexico), Brian Solomon and Tanya Lukin-Linklater plus a number of emerging choreographers; Utopia Fest – Women in Digital Culture ; Talking Stick to the Microphone - slam poets go head to head; All Our Relations Festival Wrap Party; plus the Vancouver premieres of: Metis Mutt, written and performed by Sheldon Elter; In a World Created by a Drunken God, by Drew Hayden Taylor; Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, by the Chocolate Woman Collective
Plus much much more! The festival also provides an assortment of workshops and Artist Talks - providing the opportunity to get up close and personal with many of our esteemed artists.
Feb. 20 - March 4, 2012
Full Circle at Various Locations
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An autobiographical one-man show, he play recounts Metis Actor/Director/Writer, and musician Sheldon Elter's coming of age through difficult family and cultural circumstances.
February 21 - 23, 2012
Full Circle at Roundhouse Arts & Recreation Centre
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Ignorance is a puppet documentary about prehistoric humanity – about the time when we lived in caves, before we invented Facebook, iPhones, or nagging senses of dissatisfaction.
Feb. 28 - March 10, 2012
The Cultch
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A moving portrayal of a modern woman driven by passion, racked by questions of integrity and bound by a legacy of honour. By award-winning playwright Valerie Sing Turner.
Feb. 29 - March 11, 2012
urban ink at Performance Works
March 2012
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A darkly funny homecoming. Following their latest crime spree, Gordon and his sidekick, Carl, take refuge in a rundown house in an abandoned part of town. What unsuspecting Carl th
March 1 - 24, 2012
Arts Club Theatre Company at Revue Stage, Granville Island
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Theatre is everywhere in Metro Vancouver, so have an experience worth remembering!
Watch for special offers from GVPTA member theatres this March, celebrating World Theatre Day.
March 1 - 27, 2012
GVPTA at Various Locations
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When Father Flynn is suspected of paying too much attention to a student, Sister Aloysius launches a crusade to expose the truth. A tightly woven mystery.
March 2 - 31, 2012
Pacific Theatre
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Arts Club on Tour production of Annie Baker play about the life changing experiences of four drama students and their teacher. Directed by Nicola Cavendish.
March 6 - 10, 2012
Evergreen Cultural Centre
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A divorced writer journeys to discover his family’s Holocaust history & meets a woman who has lived through a more recent genocide. A tale of responsibility, prejudice & revenge.
March 6 - 11, 2012
Firehall Arts Centre
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One Of The Bard's most popular Romantic Comedies featuring wonderful comic characters and situations and a wrestling match!
March 7 - 25, 2012
UFV Theatre
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Evergreen presents the premiere of Valerie Sing Turner's new play. Co-produced by urban ink, Visceral Visions, Vancouver Playhouse in asso. with Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
March 13 - 17, 2012
Evergreen Cultural Centre
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TWU celebrates its 50th anniversary with "Tradition!" The Tony Award-winning musical showcases the talents of BFA & BA performers from TWU's School of the Arts, Media and Culture.
March 13 - 31, 2012
Trinity Western University
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In three solos and a duet, Montreal’s Sylvain Émard places dancers at the very heart of creation, crafting for them made-to-measure roles inspired by their most pressing needs.
March 14 - 17, 2012
Firehall Arts Centre
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A trivial comedy for serious people. What happens when two wealthy playboys each pretends to be named Ernest so that he can behave recklessly without besmirching his reputation?
March 15 - April 15, 2012
Arts Club Theatre Company at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
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2 pm concert reading directed by Colleen Winton, with cellist Peggy Lee. An aging actress hires a teen to help memorize lines and begins a humourous, transformational relationship
March 18 - 18, 2012
City Stage New West at Holy Trinity Cathedral
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Studio 58’s popular one-act play festival returns.
“Season #46 at Studio 58 will feature time-honored classics like Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE and JULIUS CAESAR, alongside the latest in Canadian plays with the return of FOURPLAY, new works by recent Studio 58 students and graduates. In between, audiences will have the rare opportunity to see a vintage murder mystery à la Agatha Christie with our Christmas presentation of THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR. The Risky Nights series will feature two original creations developed by our fourth term students under the guidance of Studio graduates. Join us for another exciting season." – Kathryn Shaw, Artistic Director
March 21 - April 1, 2012
Studio 58
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BellaLuna Productions breathes life into a little known global event that shaped the Italian Canadian landscape in Western Canada.
March 21 - 24, 2012
BellaLuna Productions at The Cultch
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Shakespeare’s brooding tragedy digs into the dark territory of man’s ambition and greed.
March 22 - 31, 2012
Theatre at UBC at Frederic Wood Theatre
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Introduces a remarkable chapter in Canada’s gold rush history while exploring an unconditional love that binds and transcends even death. www.sandimdesigns.com/tightrope
March 22 - 31, 2012
Tightrope Productions at Havana
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On a whirlwind race around New York at the turn of the twentieth century, we follow the adventures of America’s most beloved matchmaker! A fun treat for the whole family!
March 27 - April 7, 2012
Exit 22 (Capilano University Theatre) at Capilano Performing Arts Theatre
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Overwhelmed by our too busy lives, do we forget what is essential? That is the question that the author Jennifer Tremblay asks in this universal and yet intimate play. In French.
March 28 - 31, 2012
Théâtre la Seizième at Studio 16
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Vancouver's 13th Annual Asian Comedy Night. Sketch Comedy Teams compete for the Vancouver Rice Bowl judged by Celebrities and he People's Choys Award judged by audience applause.
March 29 - 30, 2012
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre at Roundhouse Arts & Recreation Centre
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Story based on a true account of working women, who battled the devastating effects of using radioactive paints in their work and the court system in Depression-era middle America.
March 30 - April 14, 2012
Deep Cove Stage at Shaw Theatre
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Fred Penner and Jay Brazeau star in this brand new, fanciful tale, inspired by the song, where we meet a merry band of musicians, their grumpy neighbour, and his mysterious cat.
March 31 - 31, 2012
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company at Vancouver Playhouse
April 2012
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The triumph of life over loss. When David’s mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, he resolves to unravel a mystery that has haunted him for years.
April 5 - 28, 2012
Arts Club Theatre Company at Revue Stage, Granville Island
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Wildly funny and scathingly provocative, this searing look at history’s most infamous double-cross forces us to re-examine old truths and consider what it means to forgive.
April 10 - 21, 2012
The Cultch
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Four singers swig wine and break bread while anxiously awaiting the guest of honour. It's the Last Supper - in a funky, theatrical new song cycle.
April 11 - 14, 2012
Pacific Theatre
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Hello, Dolly! is a classic show with a fabulous score and dance numbers that bring audiences to their feet. Dolly Levi, a matchmaker, has been hired to arrange a marriage for the widowed half-millionaire, Horace Vandergelder. She herself has been recently widowed and Horace and his fortune will make her the perfect match.
April 12 - 28, 2012
Royal City Musical Theatre at Massey Theatre
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A brazenly beautiful tale weaving storytelling, music and dance to tell the story of a man and a woman, haunted by spirits but worlds apart, drawn together to unearth past secrets.
April 12 - 21, 2012
Firehall Arts Centre
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When two boys get into a fight, their parents meet to discuss the incident in a civilized manner. But a rational debate soon degenerates into an evening of tantrums and tears.
April 14 - May 5, 2012
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company at Vancouver Playhouse
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Barry Broadfoot's best-selling novel comes to life through stories, music and song. A moving piece of theatre and a Canadian classic.
April 17 - 21, 2012
Evergreen Cultural Centre
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The hilarious sequel to Sexy Laundry. Those crazy kids from the Arts Club’s smash hit Sexy Laundry are back!
April 19 - May 26, 2012
Arts Club Theatre Company at Granville Island Stage
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2 pm staged reading of Shakespeare's (abridged) classic. Acclaimed Richard Newman (Lear) & Russell Roberts(Gloucester) head cast of young emerging artists. With swordplay, music.
April 22 - 22, 2012
City Stage New West at Holy Trinity Cathedral
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Sweet like lemonade but cut with a kick of bourbon, Zachary's life is turned upside-down after meeting the mysterious and alluring Helen, leading him to question the value of time.
April 23 - May 5, 2012
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company at Vancouver Playhouse
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An eclectic, Fringe-style collection of one act plays featuring some of the most talented young performers in BC
April 25 - 29, 2012
UFV Theatre
May 2012
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Blue Box investigates Carmen Aguirre's remarkable story of terror, romance, fear and abandon as an underground revolutionary in Chile.
May 1 - 12, 2012
The Cultch
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The Firehall flings open its doors for audiences of all ages to experience theatre, dance and inter-disciplinary pieces in unorthodox settings.
May 11 - 13, 2012
Firehall Arts Centre
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Notions of courage and cowardice are questioned in this story of a Vietnam draft dodger who takes in a traumatized young American soldier after he deserts his post in Iraq.
May 31 - June 9, 2012
Touchstone Theatre at Firehall Arts Centre
Ongoing
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Vancouver TheatreSports® League is not only Vancouver's premier improv comedy venue, but one of the longest-running improv theatres in the world!
Vancouver TheatreSports® League at Improv Centre
