The Giller Prize-Winning Writer on Craft, “Reproduction”, Academia, Workshopping, and His Pandemic-Edition Creative Process   I never understood why critics sometimes describe books as “devastating” but after reading Ian William’s “Reproduction,” I get why. The book is, at once,

As the Artistic Director of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), Anoushka Ratnarajah never imagined being faced with a task like this. Now in it’s 32nd year, the Festival has had to reinvent itself in the face of a pandemic

It has been a long time since I read “Romeo and Juliet” or watched the much-loved Claire Danes and Leonardo Dicaprio movie. What I remembered was young romance, two fighting families and distraught, unnecessary deaths. However, we barely needed a

I had no idea what to expect from “Le NoShow Vancouver” right up to the moment it started. I sat in the audience wondering “Is it a comedy? Is it improvised?”, then thought it couldn’t be improvised because there were

At first glance, a theatre show with a secret location may seem like an exclusionary practice rather than a way to build community. However, after descending into the theatre space, and entering the strange, slightly uncomfortable, but always thought-provoking world

From the minute we walked into the Vancouver Playhouse theatre for Carmen Aguirre’s new play, Anywhere But Here, we were already engrossed in the story. The set, a floor of sand with a backdrop of mountains, alluded to the desert