Vancouver Weekly

  The second annual Vancouver International Poetry Festival will harness the diversity of spoken word in Canada and beyond to present a world-class spoken word festival that showcases the best

The Vancouver International Writers Festival in partnership with VPL presents INCITE: AN EXPLORATION OF BOOKS AND IDEAS Incite is a free series of readings, interviews and on stage conversations featuring

Choreographer Crazy Smooth brings together ten of Canada’s most talented performers to evoke the essential nature of pure street dance. Explosive dancing, heart-on-sleeve commitment and heroic attitudes bring urban culture’s street dance

Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then — with each song —

THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE OVER LOSS When David’s mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, he resolves to unravel a mystery that has haunted him for years. Why did she, a gifted

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – By Stephen Adly Guirgis. Produced by Pound of FleshTheatre; Presented with Rumble Productions as part of the 2012 TREMORS Festival Part court-room drama, part urban

Well, hello, Dolly! It’s so nice to have you back where you belong!” A self-professed “meddling” matchmaker and recent widow, Dolly Levi’s infectious energy charms everyone she meets. Hired to

An abundance of fun, and filled with effervescent melodies and inventive orchestrations, The Barber of Seville is absurd, touching, witty, hilarious and irresistible. VO’s inventive new production sets the action