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Have a Senior Moment Festival launches with the world premiere of HOME, October 3 to 5

Western Gold Theatre festival continues to October 11 with play readings, a karaoke dance party, improv classes, and more

THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 4, 2025Partner Content, Western Gold Theatre, Have a Senior Moment Festival

Théâtre la Seizième gives voice to Vancouver's youth in Nightwalks with Teenagers, September 25 to October 4

Performance created by Toronto-based company Mammalian Diving Reflex takes place outdoors in French and English

THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2025Partner Content, Théâtre la Seizième, Theatre la Seizieme

Rent speaks vividly to artistic struggles of today, at Metro Theatre from September 5 to 20

The rock musical’s creator and composer, Jonathan Larson, didn’t live to see its enduring success

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithAugust 28, 2025Metro Theatre

Realwheels Theatre rebrands as Glitch Theatre for launch of 2025-26 season

Faye’s Room by disability-identified playwright Alex K. Masse marks company’s first mainstage production since the rebrand

THEATREJanet SmithAugust 27, 2025Realwheels Theatre, Glitch Theatre

Theatre review: The Lion King’s powerful songs and artistic innovation still dazzle

Anchored by a knockout Rafiki and a parade of still-magical animal puppets, the Broadway Across Canada touring show proves this musical is still king of the jungle

THEATREJanet SmithAugust 24, 2025Broadway Across Canada, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Homepage feature

Touchstone Theatre opens landmark 50th season with Women of the Fur Trade, September 24 to October 4

Frances Končan’s historical satire follows three women as they share their views on life, love, and Louis Riel

Ensemble Theatre Company’s Summer Play Reading Festival brings monstrous stories to the Jericho Arts Centre, August 21 to 24

Titles include Jeff Ho’s antigone: 方, Hannah Moscovitch’s Little One, and Francis Dowlatabadi’s My Roommate Ahriman

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithAugust 19, 2025Ensemble Theatre Company, Jericho Arts Centre

Theatre review: Black Box Theatre Co.'s The Play That Goes Wrong gets the chaos right

At the Waterfront, actors embrace mishaps while set pieces are programmed to go awry on cue

THEATREJanet SmithAugust 16, 2025Black Box Theatre Co.

The Play That Goes Wrong brings farcical mishaps to Granville Island, August 13 to 30

Black Box Theatre Co. presents the production that has garnered wide acclaim since its 2012 premiere in London

WHAT'S STIRRING, THEATREJanet SmithAugust 9, 2025Black Box Theatre Co., Waterfront Theatre

Firehall Arts Centre announces 2025-26 season of Canadian works, including world premieres of Tracey Power’s House of Folk and Marlene Ginader’s Canadian Psycho

More offerings include Hiromoto Ida’s Vacant Lot and Between Breaths, a play about a whale conservationist

R;Link’s musical tale of hockey and war honours moments of cross-cultural connection

In the 2024-25 Korea-Canada Year of Cultural Exchanges, production at BlueShore at CapU sings and speaks in many languages about historical turning point

THEATREJanet SmithAugust 7, 2025Blueshore at CapU, Korea, Summer 2025, BlueShore at CapU

Jonathan Larson’s musical masterpiece RENT comes to Metro Theatre, September 5 to 20

Heartfelt story portrays struggling artists living under the shadow of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York

THEATREStir VancouverAugust 7, 2025Partner Content, Metro Theatre

Vancouver-born Forgiveness draws standing O’s at Stratford Festival

Local creative team, including playwright-actor Hiro Kanagawa, drives ambitious production about Japanese imternment

At the Monsoon Festival, Kenyan-born actor Nimet Kanji reads play excerpts from her storied career

This installment of salon series includes Anosh Irani’s Bombay Black, Munish Sharma’s Mrs. Singh and Me, and NYC–set period piece The Heiress

A History of Motown brings the party back to the Firehall Arts Centre, August 6 to 17

Krystle Dos Santos and crew revive hits by Aretha Franklin, the Supremes, and more, while interweaving the stories behind the music

Theatre review: Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] takes pleasingly panicked tour of the Bard’s canon

As if haunted by centuries of hits and flops, the three figures in this Bard on the Beach comedy take jabs at the self-consciousness and shaky footing of being an actor

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithJuly 17, 2025Bard on the Beach, Summer 2025

Carousel Theatre for Young People unveils 49th season that spans Where the Wild Things Are, an all-new Family Forward Festival, and more

Lineup also includes an offering from South Korea, an adaptation of The Paper Bag Princess, and a family-friendly drag show

Theatre review: Sparks fly between brilliant equals in Bard on the Beach’s The Dark Lady

Poetic flourishes and strong characterizations bring compelling charge to imagined story of Shakespeare and the woman who inspired and challenged him

THEATREJanet SmithJuly 15, 2025Bard on the Beach, Summer 2025, Homepage feature

Pacific Theatre announces fall-only season before leaving historic venue in new year

Comedy with Charlie Demers and Jacob Samuel and a remount of Wakey, Wakey are some of the offerings onstage before renovations and a time of internal review in 2026

THEATREJanet SmithJuly 15, 2025Pacific Theatre