Theatre Archives

Theatre West Van, the North Shore's longest operating drama group, presents the final piece of its 2008/09 season, Table Manners at the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver through May 2nd, 2009. And while it was a very rocky start for the first half of act one, the actors, due in no small part to Kevin Scott's turn as Norman, finally found their groove in scene two resulting in an enjoyable evening of one of the three pieces from Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests.

The Arts Club Theatre Company is pleased to present Les Misérables, the musical that swept the world. A spectacular saga of love and redemption, the musical phenomenon Les Misérables features songs from the heart that reach straight toward the heavens.

Before there was the phenom that was Rent, Jonathan Larson wrote tick,tick... BOOM! in response to the failure of another of his works, Superbia. While tick,tick... BOOM! received a couple of workshop productions, ironically much like Superbia, the show was quickly eclipsed when Rent opened off-Broadway in 1996 and to Broadway itself that same year.

A visually stunning piece of work, Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge is back on stage in Vancouver as part of its cross-country tour that will see the show, which has already played in Whitehorse, move onto Calgary with the Alberta Theatre Project and Montreal as part of Festival Transameriques.

One of the biggest problems with theatre in Vancouver is the ability of some of the smaller companies to afford runs of any significant length. Unless you're one of the bigger players in town more-often-than-not you find your play relegated to only a few short performances; blink and they are gone.

Hurray for the average Joe! Fat guys, nerdy guys, gay guys, straight guys and the less-than-well-endowed guys all unite in a fun-filled romp in the Patrick Street Production of The Full Monty currently playing at the Norman Rothstein Theatre.

This holiday seasons sees a classic fight for our entertainment dollars.  Will it be the oh-so-very-funny The Drowsy Chaperone or will it be the oh-so-very-touching It's a Wonderful Life?

The Arts Club Theatre Company brings back another Vancouver holiday tradition with Disney's Beauty and the Beast returning to the Stanley Theatre through January 4th.

James Fagan Tait brings a new translation and adaptation of Edmond Rostand's enduring Cyrano de Bergerac in a much darker version than what audiences might be used to in this classic love story but it does work in emphasizing the tragedy of a love never realized and indeed, love that is ultimately lost.

What would you do if you found out your father was a Nazi war criminal? How do you reconcile your love for and your desire to make your father proud while all the time knowing he may have been involved in unspeakable horrors?