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Japanese people and culture have been a part of Vancouver for a long time. A man named Manzo Nagano arrived in New Westminster in 1877, becoming the first official Japanese immigrant to Canada. Twelve years later, the first Japanese Consulate-General in the country was founded in Vancouver. In 2014, the consulate will celebrate its 125th…
Artists looking for a launching pad to display their theatre work may have a hard time telling certain stories. While mainstream theatres, such as the locally-based Arts Club, are starting to showcase Canadian Asian stories (such as Kim’s Convenience, which will run at The Arts Club April 24 to May 24, 2014), there’s still a…
As a writer, performer and director, TJ Dawe discovers himself through many of his autobiographical works.
If it is culture you are looking for, the Vancouver Fringe Festival has it, and has it in spades.
Carmen Garcia enjoys making faces.
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.
Art has many definitions, but it is fundamentally used as a means of communication, one that can even transcend cultural boundaries.
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.
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.
at Pacific Cinematheque through the month of April is a Robert Bresson retro- spective. [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
