Theatre

Playwright Ron Reed tackles some tough questions in Pacific Theatre’s Refuge of Lies, providing a powerful framework for us to reach deep to find our own answers and the truth within.

Vancouver's theatre scene continues to be red hot. Here is the line-up of some of the shows, including those with a QUEER! connection, set to play local stages in March and April 2010.

Vancouver as a sci-fi Mecca is not such a stretch given the various Stargates, Battlestar Gallactica, Caprica and such that have been produced here for sometime.  What is perhaps a little harder to understand is the apparent obsession-in-the-making that local Leaping Thespians theatre group seem to be developing for the subject.  But after my recent chat with Director Karen White of their upcoming show Brides of the Moon, it all starts to make sense.

Playwright Norm Foster is cleaning up in Vancouver right now.  Not only is he starring in his The Love List at the Playhouse, another of his works, Opening Night, is being produced by Metro Theatre.  And despite some technical and staging issues, the amateur Metro production in South Vancouver was at times just as entertaining as the professionals in downtown Vancouver.

I have a confession to make.  Billy Bishop Goes to War has a huge place in my heart as it is one of three plays (ask me some other time about the other two) that transformed me into the theatre lover I am today.   And while I don’t believe this Arts Club production will have the same transformative effect on audiences as the original, it does a respectful job in introducing a new generation of theatergoers to this quintessentially Canadian piece of theatre.

UBC’s Brave New Play Rites has been uniting its creative writing students and its theatre students in a festival of original one-act plays for 24 years.  In 2010, this annual tradition continues with the presentation of twelve fifteen-minute shows, four of which have queer themes.

The theatrical phenomenon, Disney's The Lion King, comes to Vancouver in July and we're giving you an opportunity to purchase tickets before they go on sale to the general public.

As musicals go, they don’t get much wackier than Where’s Charley? And with the unrestrained energy of the cast, the Studio 58 production, on stage through April 18^th, works hard to milk that wackiness for all it is worth.

What if you could create your perfect mate?  Or have the opportunity to try out various character traits on a potential partner, adding and changing those that perhaps don’t quite work for you?  Such is the premise behind the very funny The Love List, currently on stage at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Vancouver writer, David Blue brings back his 2007 play Memoirs of a Single Gay White Male for a short run beginning April 7^th at Performance Works.  We caught up with David as he gets ready to re-mount what he calls this “new, improved and revised production”.