Written and directed by Carmen Aguirre, Electric Company Theatre’s new production hums with the complex, revolutionary rhythms of 20th-century art and politics
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Playwright Kate Hamill’s witty, gender-bent take on classic detective tales cites Star Wars as readily as The Hound of the Baskervilles
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At DanceHouse, the Montreal artist resurrects a piece whose stripped-down expression is still touring after 23 years
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The duo of Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque likes to keep an element of onstage tension at its shows
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At the Firehall Arts Centre, Hiromoto Ida’s production based on the Japanese play Sarachi weaves together elements of contemporary dance and theatre
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Author of forthcoming elegy The World After Rain looks at writers’ roles in times of crisis
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At the Cultch, theatre artist employs episodic structure, photo projections, and an array of styles to capture the early 20th century’s complicated photographer and activist
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Despite the play’s modern twist, fans of Arthur Conan Doyle will find plenty of familiar nods to the source material
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At the intimate York Theatre, honed Aussie performers mix feral energy with a new level of circus sophistication
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Quick takes on Dracula, Idiotka, Akashi, and Ma—Cry of Silence, plus documentaries about one family’s scattered heritage and the true cost of global capitalism
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The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes reveals quiet life of a master who avoided spotlight; The Art of Adventure tracks a young Robert Bateman’s journey with Bristol Foster across the world in a Land Rover
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He’s made his name reimagining everyday objects, including reconstructing Nike Air Jordan sneakers to resemble Northwest Coast Indigenous masks
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Kent Donguines’s new documentary journeys to Buscalan, where ancient Kalinga hand-tapped tattooing is thriving again
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The classically trained singer-songwriter and pianist is heading to the West Coast for a pair of shows with Black Dog String Quartet, at BlueShore at CapU and the Shadbolt
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The artist also known as Neil Fraser will revisit his work with Massive Attack in a VIFF Live show at the Chan Centre
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Mammalian Diving Reflex production comes to Vancouver for the first time in a bilingual presentation by Théâtre la Seizième
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In their exhibition Try Keeping an Open Channel, the Melbourne-based artist explores selfhood, mortality, and the monumental significance of the everyday
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With Amy Herzog’s adaptation of the 19th-century classic by Henrik Ibsen, the Arts Club creates a psychological and social vision that is startlingly contemporary
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The locally based soundscape artist and his global collaborators have crafted an immersive experience at VIVO Media Arts Centre, with Formscape Arts, Vancouver New Music, and IM4 Media Lab
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Chief Dr. Janice George brings knowledge as both curator and practitioner to works that reflect not only the deep past but also the emerging future of Indigenous weaving arts
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