The sun was shining on the grassy fields of Jericho Beach for the 41st Vancouver Folk Festival last weekend. The lineup boasted of folk musicians ranging from the new and emerging to the well-known, mainstream kingpins. Headliners Neko Case, The Dead

Bard on the Beach’s “Timon of Athens” is Shakespeare at its best. Director Meg Roe has taken a script that is convoluted, difficult to decipher, and, many scholars believe, actually unfinished, and turned it into a meaningful and thought-provoking commentary

Part of the Dancing on the Edge Festival, “Volcano” investigates how, for better or worse, sometimes inexplicable events can interrupt the frenetic bustle of modern life. The particular event under the spot light was the Icelandic eruption of 2010, which caused

The Gameplay “The Gameplay” is a two-person play centred on the contrast between a boy’s relationship with the physical world around him and that with the world in an online video game. The show explores the strangeness of interactions we have with

Katharine Ferns Is In Stitches Brave has a new name and it is Katharine Ferns. This Fringe show is a dark comedy and stand-up routine that keeps us on the edge for the entire hour. There are times when we laugh,

  4’33” in Baghdad Referencing John Cage’s musical composition, “4’33” in Baghdad” is not what it seems. It goes back to the recent past, and the persisting present of the riveting Middle East, to reveal how music might have been

If ever there was a Shakespearean work that was summery, breezy and required minimal mental cardio, “As You Like It” is it. The Bard on the Beach team has set this sangria-like romantic comedy to the backdrop of 1960s Vancouver