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CENTRE STAGE: Western Gold Theatre presents Splitting Heirs and White Rock Player Club presents both gender versions of The Odd Couple
July 7, 2016Splitting Heirs – Western Gold Theatre PAL Studio Theatre June 24 – 26, 2016 Western Gold Theatre serves a vital purpose in our local theatre scene: they focus on producing plays that feature roles for actors over 55 years old. While they originally began as a company solely comprised of those in their golden years, the company now works with younger actors and mentors them along the way. Their recent production, Splitting Heirs, was Freyda Thomas’s adaptation of Le Legative Universel, a French farce by Jean-Francois Regnard. The protagonist of this story is an old duke, Geronte, played by Bernard…
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The Pacific rocked the stage at Studio Records
July 4, 2016The band previously known as Room 202 have reinvented themselves as the Pacific. A move lead singer and acoustic guitarist Zishan Abdullah said stemmed from the fact that “we’re all west coast boys and love the city we live in.…
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Bard on the Beach is about the experience, not the production
June 27, 2016With its 27th season in full swing, patrons new and old alike have been lining up in front of the wrought iron fences and white tents to see the players of Bard on the Beach. With two of Shakespeare's greatest…
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CENTRE STAGE: Small Stage and Ballet BC join forces
June 24, 2016Ballet BC dancers have a long history of appearing in Dances for a Small Stage shows. Peter Smida, Maggie Forgeron, and Makaila Wallace, among others, have graced the small stage, but this is the second time the two companies have…
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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY
June 17, 2016By: Courtney Miller, Jessica Pickering, and Jessica Whitesel Follow The Peak on Spotify to stay up to date on New Music Friday. https://open.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/2GBVlavtjExVKcSNNWDJhS “Good Grief” – Bastille Jessica Whitesel: Holy crap this is so damn pop-y. But not in a bad…
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CENTRE STAGE: BroadWHAT?! brings musical improv to the masses and How to Survive an Apocalypse is a witty rom-com for the end times
June 17, 2016BroadWHAT?! Off Key Improv June 15 – 19; Studio 1398 Most people have heard of Theatresports or been to one of their hilarious improv shows on Granville Island, but musical improv is still relatively new to our city. Off Key…
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Levitation Vancouver is set to kick off festival season
June 16, 2016Summer has arrived, which means music festival season is swinging into full gear. Although there has been some disappointment with the cancellation of the Squamish Valley Music Festival, there are still plenty of other festivals to fill the emptiness. Levitation…
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Kaylee Johnston is tough with a sensitive side
June 13, 2016When Kaylee Johnston walked into our interview a few days before her self-titled EP release party at the Biltmore Cabaret, she bypassed the handshake and headed straight for a hug. Johnston was in the Canadian Radio Star competition early on…
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SFU choir members perform in local opera
June 6, 2016Alexandre Vasilchenko had a busy schedule last week. The criminology major had his regular classes, studying for exams, and also had two performances of Pietro Mascagni’s opera Cavalleria Rusticana. You could say it wasn’t a typical week for an SFU…
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Racing towards space with the Tourist Company
June 3, 2016The Tourist Company, from the Lower Mainland, released their second EP entitled Mercury on April 29, and hosted a release party at the Biltmore Cabaret on May 26. The new record follows the same space-theme as their 2014 release, Space…
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