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Summer is here and so is one of Vancouver’s summer staples – Theatre Under The Stars with a brand new season of awe-inspiring musical theater. The Vancouver Arts Review attended the opening night production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical

This might be unorthodox – I want to begin this review on a personal note. I am an obsessive gift giver – I tend to expend copious efforts to plan and execute personalized birthday gifts for loved ones. This time

After a 3-year long wait, Fez Faanana AKA Shivannah has finally arrived in Vancouver with his sensational troupe of gender bending artists, much to everyone’s delight! The aptly named show, Dirty Laundry is chock-full of entertainment – there’s acrobatics, juggling,

Millennial book-lovers might remember the 2000’s as the heyday of “epic-fantasy” bestsellers. Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson & the Olympians” was one such series that successfully implanted Greek gods and mythical creatures into the average teenager’s consciousness. Last Sunday, the fantasyland

The Wrong Bashir is set in present day Vancouver and depicts the intergenerational story of a wonky Ismaili family. The comedic plot highlights the absurd relationship dynamics and idiosyncrasies one tends to witness in displaced and migrant communities. Bashir Ladha

Our world exists in the realm of glaring contradictions – humans yearning to express love are ordered to perform hatred; children and grandchildren of trauma survivors are taught cultural lores that are incompatible with the current material reality; parents who

Photo credit: Ontroerend Goed Are we not drawn onward to new erA is a theater production that casts a reversible gaze on human actions that have led to climate change. The show, just like its title, is a palindromic sequence.