The Cree-Dene composer’s new work joins a program aimed at instilling calm, bliss, and joy

Hilarious production is bursting with outrageous innuendos and queer chaos

Cataloguing the campy to the harrowing, the writer behind Shot in Vancouver: Adventures in Hollywood North appears at the Vancouver Writers Fest on October 24 and 25

Accompanying silent auction raises funds for children with serious illnesses across British Columbia and the Yukon

As part of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, the new show nods to Mexico’s Día de los Muertos and similar traditions from other countries

Baroque masters William Christie and Paul Agnew lead the vocal ensemble in a revelatory program devoted to the lauded Italian composer

Featuring contemporary and canonical pieces, the acclaimed ensemble’s program at the Kay Meek Arts Centre reflects dedication to creating space for emerging and marginalized voices

Actor Steffanie Davis plays three roles in the Arts Club production, including the gleefully unhinged, bug-munching Renfield

Running in repertory, two plays shine light on what people don’t always see

The American pianist’s project is part of her ongoing engagement with the work of post-abstract expressionist painter Cy Twombly

Burning director Lee Chang-don takes a masterful look at the the wealth divide

Keely Rois O’Brien’s season opener at Gateway Theatre has a simple message: if you don’t know how to say it, say it with cake 

Program features world premieres by Cameron Fraser-Monroe and Ballet BC company dancer Michael Garcia, plus Out Innerspace’s Last Flower

Director Brenna Corner dove deep into history to flesh out the corruption that surrounds a tragic character who lives life on her own terms

Performer’s lifelong immersion in the forms of Bharatanatyam will create space for new audience responses at Mandala Arts and Culture event

Continuing online from December 1 to 20, the program features a Ukraine solidarity screening of the powerful documentary Traces

The celebrated Vancouver artist reflects on his youth, sexuality, and aging in a final solo performance

Isabel Leong and her 18-piece band play scores by Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi—but they don’t simply re-create the music of the films

Grammy-nominated composition draws on poetry to honour species that have vanished from the natural world

Dancers perform an increasingly surreal and unsettling ritual when the Montreal troupe brings its latest work to the DanceHouse program

Governor General Award–winning play about a father and daughter tells of loss and redemption, humanity, and survival

New documentary uses retro animation and interviews with the likes of Martin Short, Eugene Levy, and Andrea Martin to recall the Toronto Godspell production that first connected future SNL and SCTV stars

Riddled with language barriers and discrimination, the rice & beans theatre and Gokko Creative Society production grapples with the possibility of unity and acceptance

In a comedy by North Vancouver’s Peter Zednik, exes rekindle their connection, exploring what it means to come out of the closet at any age—and at any cost

As part of Vancouver New Music’s festival, the acclaimed percussionist relies on a traditional Japanese spirit of harmony that allows Reich’s precise patterns to breathe

Upintheair Theatre stages its latest installment, with What Lab, of a project that challenges local artists to respond to timely topics in science, nature, and astrophysics

Gateway Theatre production follows four characters standing on the precipice of change

Wootten, who passed away last year, launched the venue in 1973 and will also have a new creation fund in his name

A patchwork wall of TV screens, fun nods to found-footage horror, and other genre touches heighten allegorical messages of queer self-acceptance in Touchstone Theatre and Glitch Theatre show

Artists unite to perform soaring string sextets by Dvořák and Brahms