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Performing Les Miz still a thrill for cast
Les Misérables, June 1223 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver. Tickets available at ticketmaster.ca or 1-866-542-7469.
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Theatre review: Lost in space
This eagerly-awaited offering from Electric Company is so far from what I expected that the day after opening night I’m still in a state of disbelief.
State of the Arts: Band-hopping Grdina makes most of Jazz Fest
Gordon Grdina will play six of the 11 nights of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, June 21 to July 1, in four different groups.
Oh, the humanity!
Vancouver improv troupe the Fictionals are bringing their brand of irreverent comedy to the Rio Theatre with Improv Against Humanity.
InFocus part 3: It ain’t easy making green (WITH VIDEO)
In the third episode of the Courier’s five-part video series exploring Vancouver’s standup comedy scene, comedians discuss the sobering reality of making a living as a standup comic in Vancouver.
Reclamation project opens a portal into the past
- Reclamation, an art exhibition crafted from our industrial legacy, featuring sculpture by Susan MacDonald and Eric MacDonald, photography by Mike Wakefield and a soundscape by J. Knutson, at Deep Cove's Artemis Gallery, June 14-July 1. Opening reception: Friday, June 14, 7-10 p.m. Solstice Celebration of Art and Sound: Friday, June 21, 7-9 p.m. Info: artemisgallery.ca.
Performing Les Miz still a thrill for cast
Les Misérables, June 1223 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver. Tickets available at ticketmaster.ca or 1-866-542-7469.
InFocus part 2: All hands on Decker (WITH VIDEO)
In the second episode of the Courier’s five-part video series exploring Vancouver’s standup comedy scene, comedian Ivan Decker takes viewers on a tour of his glamorous lifestyle, including preparing for shows, writing in notebooks, surfing the Internet and taking public transit.
InFocus: Local comedians hone craft away from industry spotlight (WITH VIDEO)
There were roughly 700 people parked in the seats of the Vogue Theatre last Friday night. It was an impressive turnout for the first Simply Dope Summer Comedy ...
Kababayang Pilipino looks forward to 20 more years of celebrating Filipino arts
Filipino arts group Kababayang Pilipino celebrates its 20th anniversary this weekend by welcoming Jonah Martin, a senator from the Philippines, to this year’s galas performance titled “Kinabukasan.”
Movie review: Celebrity man-children run amok in This is the End
Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill and a dozen or so other celebs play themselves in This Is The End, a film which gives equal weight to the issues of mortality and man-boobs.
Elizabeth Rex faces her demons at Bard on the Beach
- Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, June 12 to Sept. 14 at Vanier Park in Vancouver. For schedule and tickets, visit bardonthebeach.org or call 604-739-0559.
State of the Arts: Electric Company Theatre looks back to the future
Electric Company Theatre is lighting up the planetarium with its latest production, You Are Very Star, June 12 to 29.
Theatre review: Sister act
Guardian theatre critic Clare Brennan wrote on Sept. 17, 2011: “The writer Blake Morrison first described this notion as ‘bonkers’ when Susannah Clapp, this paper's senior theatre critic, suggested it to him 10 years ago.”
Riley Park: Print's charming (VIDEO)
As part of the Courier's Vancouver Special neighbourhood series on Riley Park, we visited the Regional Assembly of Text to talk paper, fonts, buttons and the lost art of letter writing.
Foncie's Fotos: Museum of Vancouver showcases work of legendary street photographer
- Foncie's Fotos, Museum of Vancouver through Sunday, January 5, 2014. For more information museumofvancouver.ca.
State of the Arts: Circus comes to 10th annual In the House Festival
Peter Boulanger isn’t sure whether his circus company’s 34-foot tall marionette will make it to the In the House Festival.
Theatre review: Convoluted comedy crashes
Why playwright Kris Elgstrand thought the aftermath of the vehicular death of a teenager would be fodder for comedy is anybody’s guess. But apparently the opening night crowd laughed themselves silly.
Twisted sisters: Jen and Sylvia Soska scare people for a living
The call came from the principal's office. They were only children, but the North Vancouver twins had been disrupting their elementary school, filling up note paper with horrific literature and using up their red crayons drawing murder victims.
