Makeup designer plays part in opera storytelling

Susanna Reinhart performs with the Vancouver Cantonese Opera Society. - Photo by Bessie Chow

Carmen Garcia enjoys making faces. [Read more…]

Theatre production brings intercultural work to the Cultch

Tim Carlson (left) and Jimmy Mitchell (right) helped bring Extraction to the Cultch. Photo courtesy of The Cultch

Vancouver writer and producer Tim Carlson, 49, is using documentary theatre to compare China and Fort McMurray in his new play, Extraction, premiering March 5 at The Cultch. [Read more…]

Art helps define what it means to be “intercultural” and “multicultural”

Performance of Pangea Arts create theatre productions that combine Asian and Western theatrical traditions. Photo by Pagea Arts

Art has many definitions, but it is fundamentally used as a means of communication, one that can even transcend cultural boundaries. [Read more…]

Rick Tae: “Asian Americans and Asian Canadians are completely different.” – Guillaume Debaene

Rick Tae | Photo courtesy of Rick Tae

What does it mean to be Asian in North America? This is the question raised by The Theory of Everything, a quirky, comical and philosophical play by award-winning Thai-American playwright, Prince Gomolvilas. [Read more…]

White and red rabbits paint portrait of isolation

Photo courtesy of The Cultch

Generational isolation and a desire to engage the outside world are some of the major themes explored in a ground-breaking new play on show this September at The Cultch Theatre. [Read more…]

‘Cinema Québécois’ leading the wave

Robert Besson. Photo by Film Reference Library, Toronto.

at Pacific Cinematheque through the month of April is a Robert Bresson retro- spective. [Read more...]

A richly textured love story at the Arts Club Theatre

Marci T. House as Esther

Intimate Apparel is a diverse tale bound in tight colourful corsets, made of fabric from around the world. The play unfolds themes of desire, repressed by expectations, class and race in the early 1900s. [Read more...]

The Arts Club builds bridges in the reinvention of a Greek myth

Actress Laara Sadiq

Margaret Atwood reverses the famous myth of The Odyssey and gives the stage to Penelope herself in The Penelopiad, playing at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage until Nov. 20. [Read more...]

Battling divisions in theatre production of Us and Them

Us and Them – The Cultch

The fundamental question explored in the play Us and Them by co-directors David Diamond and Kevin Finnan, is “if it’s only us here, who are the ‘they’ we are creating?” Us and Them, showing at The Cultch (Historic Theatre) on Venables Street, is a production which merges traditional and formal theatre. [Read more...]