Six Shakespeare festivals to see this summer

Summer has long been renowned as the ideal time for bathing in the sun, enjoying delicious icy treats, travelling to idyllic locations, and shedding...

Verses Festival presents diverse poets from across North America

Over the course of 34 shows and workshops, the fifth annual Verses Festival brings together adults and youth from across Canada and the US...

MFA student collaborates with Mascall Dance for the remount of The Three Cornered Hat

Barbara Adler’s work doesn’t fall neatly into one genre. She’s working on her masters of fine arts in interdisciplinary studies at SFU, and regularly...

BC music festivals for every type of music lover

Raise your heart rate and take a deep breath of fresh air: It’s almost time to stock up on enough summer fun to get...

DanceHouse presents “energetic” Kafig Brasil

Jim Smith, co-founder and producer of the DanceHouse contemporary dance series, describes Kafig Brasil as an antidote to the other shows that the series...

Diverse movement at the Vancouver International Dance Festival

Ferenc Fehér The Vancouver International Dance Festival presented a diverse line up of artists this year, and offered many free shows as well as ticketed...

Cinephilia: Inherent Vice is a convoluted tale of ’70s debauchery

Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Inherent Vice is a labyrinth with no way out; the more you think about its plot...

Blasted is overtly shocking theatre

Provocative and dramatic, British playwright Sarah Kane’s Blasted was met with hostility and outrage upon its 1995 debut. The play was originally condemned for...

An alien race clashes with humanity in Home

Tim Johnson’s Home is a computer animated science fiction-comedy film about an alien invasion with an interesting twist. Themes such as friendship, accepting differences,...

Cézanne, The Poetics of Space, and Unscrolled impress at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of visiting the Vancouver Art Gallery and seeing its three stunning exhibitions: Cézanne and the Modern, The Poetics...