Reviews

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    Posted May 21st, 2013 by Reg Tupper · Vancouver

    As Director Bill Millerd rightly states in the opening sentence to his written message contained in the program for DREAMGIRLS, “musicals are a special breed, and they have their ardent fans and equal ardent detractors.” Certainly detractors were thin on the ground at the opening on...

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    Posted May 13th, 2013 by Reg Tupper · Vancouver

    Recently at the Havana Cafe, I was having lunch with David Bloom (Artistic Director, actor, writer, fight master - all-round Renaissance Man of Vancouver's alternative theatre scene). To arrange this meeting was an exercise in perseverance. Why?

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    Posted May 8th, 2013 by Danielle Benzon · Vancouver

     

    Tea: A Mirror of Soul is an exotic, symbolic, operatic exploration of the role of tea in Eastern culture. This unique piece is playing at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for four nights only: May 4, 7, 9 and 11.

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    Posted May 1st, 2013 by Allyson McGrane · Vancouver

    We muse little on the cult of death in 2013. Instead of funerals, everyone is invited to attend a celebration of life. But a funeral is what it is. A memorial service. A remembrance of a soul gone from this earth.

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    Posted April 26th, 2013 by Danielle Benzon · Vancouver

    Ballet BC’s Giselle is running for 3 nights only at the Queen Elizabeth theatre. A contemporary re-imagining by choreographer José Navas, this performance is both accessible to the uninitiated and bursting with artistic depth, passion and integrity.

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    Posted April 8th, 2013 by Reg Tupper · Vancouver

    In their production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Jane Heyman and Jesse Johnston, together with the company of The Only Child Collective, have offered up a rare gift to Vancouver theatre-goers.

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    Posted March 27th, 2013 by Alex Lazaridis Ferguson · Vancouver

    The techno-dance aliens have landed. There are twelve of them. They wear beige unitards, have their hair pasted to their skulls and their eyes whited out. The unitards give them the look of shaven Caucasian babies, with adult sexual organs straining to break free of the latex epidermal membrane...

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    Posted March 22nd, 2013 by Reg Tupper · Vancouver

    The difficulty in writing about a show such as 2 Pianos 4 Hands is that there is very little left to say that hasn’t been said or repeated in the 16 years and 5,000 performances that have elapsed since it appeared, to great acclaim, in its first incarnation at the Tarragon Theatre in...

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    Posted March 16th, 2013 by Danielle Benzon · Vancouver

    Drawing from a number popular dystopian themes, Broken Sex Doll is a slick, silly, scifi satire. Kinda like if Ray Bradbury had written Grease.

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    Posted March 12th, 2013 by Danielle Benzon · Vancouver

    I’ve been struggling to make full sentences of this review, the performance was so image-heavy. So I thought I’d start out with some images:

    Rolling sky, luscious mountains, fog and mist and forests green,
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