Theatre Reviews Cost of Living needs more heart, but it manoeuvres issues of disability and classism with grace Bahareh Yaraghi's Jess most clearly exemplifies how high the “cost of living”, financial and emotional, really is.
Theatre Reviews Gender-bent Antony and Cleopatra is a delightful blend of camp and passion It pulls apart the affectations of gender, love, and war in brilliant ways, and has a fantastic time doing it.
Theatre Reviews At Pacific Theatre, Mother of the Maid's Joan of Arc story builds to a devastating finale There are a few truly great scenes in this story reframed as a family drama, and they come at the very end, when Joan faces death.
Theatre Reviews Actors pull off the near-impossible in United Players' Romeo and Juliet rethink, A Tender Thing Troy Skog and Denyse Wilson make you believe that, instead of dying together in their youth, the duo has had a long and happy life.
Fringe Festival Vancouver Fringe Festival review: R’n’J: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Roz and Jules This show reimagines an ending where Juliet goes on the lam with Rosaline.
LGBT+ Love Intersections aims to present documentary narratives of queer folks not normally seen in mainstream coverage Jen Sungshine and David Ng like bending the rules any way they can.
LGBT+ Gavin Somers brings queer experiences into classrooms with Out in Schools The program seeks to open up dialogue and let kids ask questions about LGBT2SQ+ issues.
Arts Notes 37th Annual Jessie Awards see theatre community determined to challenge the status quo At the Monday night ceremony at Bard on the Beach, winners and presenters celebrated theatre as a tool for social change.
Theatre Reviews Ensemble Theatre Company’s Born Yesterday shows acting promise, but lacks energy In the 1946 comedy-drama, a wealthy junk magnate arrives in Washington with an ex-showgirl.
Arts Notes Les Filles du Roi, Sweeney Todd, and Le Soulier take home four wins each at Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards The night’s big winners include Bard on the Beach, Théâtre la Seizième, and the Cultch’s Heather Redfern for advancing diversity.