Emily Molnar is leaving Ballet BC and this is her last season. She has transformed Ballet BC from a predictable dance company into a force of the future. So with some sadness in my heart, and wanting to lap up
Read moreEmily Molnar is leaving Ballet BC and this is her last season. She has transformed Ballet BC from a predictable dance company into a force of the future. So with some sadness in my heart, and wanting to lap up
Read moreWhen I get on the phone with Gwen Benaway for our Saturday morning, coast to coast call, it’s a happy occasion. Gwen has just become the first trans woman to be nominated for a Governor General Literary Award for Poetry.
Read moreBard on the Beach took a chance through a new twist to Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well”. This story of a secret unrequited love is set during the India-Pakistan Partition era, where an Indian woman falls in love with a British
Read moreWe’re mid-October and it’s a time as good as ever to look back at the shows that moved us in September at the Vancouver Fringe. Many of these shows will continue on the worldwide Fringe circuit and we might even see
Read moreJiv Parasram begins “Take d Milk, Nah?” with his distaste for “identity” plays. He goes on to explain their structure, their predictability, and how all of them talk about snow, especially the Canadian ones. At first, I just couldn’t stop moving
Read moreI have a confession to make. Before Vancouver Opera’s “La Traviata” I had never been to the opera. I didn’t know what to expect. I thought everything would fly right over my head. But that is, thankfully, not the experience
Read more“The Shipment” has returned to Vancouver after sweeping the Jessie’s for its debut run a few years ago. The play is the proud work of playwright Young Jean Lee and has toured North America since 2009. Ten years on it
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