Let me get this straight. An “over-educated secular liberal” has written a new play in which a university-aged daughter has – to the consternation of a family not so different from his own – announced that she has become a…
Kids all over Metro Vancouver are returning to school this week, but the experience will be unique at three new schools in Vancouver, New Westminster and Surrey. Marion Van Driel wrote a good article on two schools with roots in…
This is the first time in about 40 years that I have seen an all-woman troupe perform drama. Strangely enough, then it was Shakespeare’s Hamlet, performed to music by the Takarazuka Revue in Tokyo. (They’re still going after almost 100 years.) We had tickets at…
Kaitlin Williams‘ dramatic gifts were evident to my wife when her Sunday school class developed a skit to enliven a lesson. So it has been a pleasure for her to see Kaitlin mature into a serious actor and now, in Pacific Theatre’s latest…
WeMakeStuff 02 is a visual delight. Like the first volume, which came out a couple of years ago, this book features 100 artists, musicians, photographers – all kinds of creative types – mainly from Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, but some from the rest of the…
Playing at Pacific Theatre through October 12 is the most delightful comedy – shown for the second time in the theatre’s 30 year history – The Foreigner. You will laugh, at times nearly hysterically. Go see it! The play is…