Theatre

With the holiday season quickly approaching you can expect some seasonal treats along with a wide variety of other shows, including those with an LGBTQ! connection, to play on Vancouver stages in November and December 2010.

One of Vancouver’s newest theatre companies, Penguin Pool Theatre, presents its inaugural production with Howard Korder’s Pulitzer Prize nominated Boys’ Life, a look at the realities and responsibilities of becoming men.

Never ones to shy away from a challenge, Fighting Chance Productions takes on Stephen Sondheim’s tricky Sweeney Todd with some bloody good results thanks in a large part to leads Alex McMorran and Cathy Wilmot.

When was the last time a play whetted your appetite for more? For me it happened for the first time in many years with the Pi Theatre / Rumble Production presentation of after the quake, currently on stage at The Cultch through October 23rd.

As part of the international touring company of Grease, set to arrive in Vancouver on October 26th, the show’s Assistant Choreographer and Assistant Director, Joseph Corella, says he has always loved musical theatre.

If you missed the recent production of Brighton Beach Memoirs at Vancouver’s Metro Theatre last month, fret not as you have another opportunity in an equally engaging production from Richmond’s Gateway Theatre.

The world’s longest-running musical, landed on the Vancouver Playhouse stage last night.  But while charming, The Fantastiks limped along with a sweet sentimentality that never really connected for me.

“A rumpus filled journey into the fabulous with a little dash of heart sprinkles on top for colour!”  Not your typical description for a theatre production that’s for sure.  But then, it doesn't sound like there is very much that is typical about the Studio 58 Risky Nights Series and its upcoming production of What a Drag!

Burlesque and musical theatre see a happy mash-up in Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society's Greece Does Grease, in what actor/singer Bazil Graham says is an easy going and fun hybrid that is sure to entertain.

Back in January I had the opportunity to witness the birth of a brand new, made in Vancouver musical by a talented team of theatre students from Langara's Studio 58.  At the time I suggested that the show wasn’t quite ready for prime-time.  Fast forward nine months and I was pleasantly surprised to see v2.0 of The Park mature into a fun full-length send-up of life in Vancouver.