Theatre

Five actors sit in a circle, two feminine presenting, three masculine. They wear semi-formal clothing and turn to face the camera in front of a grey-blue wall on a grey floor.

May 28 cultureJeff Lee

Not Your Average Meeting: Inside a Circle of Secrets and Survival

Set and performed in a modest church activity room, Meeting follows five people in a support group for codependency, particularly around sexuality, love and identity.

Four people in white tank tops and blue jeans sit on a staircase, leaning into each other.

April 18 cultureAisha Chaudhry and Elena Massing

Now We’re In It approaches love and sacrifice with a ‘Yes, and…’ philosophy

Three stern-looking men stand on a staircase at the back entrance of a building.

March 27 cultureAvery Nowicki

Anosh Irani's Behind the Moon honours the characters that haunt him

Six people in a living room decorated with pink wallpaper and framed art, five of them seated and facing a person who is standing and speaking.

March 22 cultureNatalie Vakulin

UBC Theatre's The Last of the Pelican Daughters combines loss, family, prosecco and birthday cake

A red book cover with an illustration of a shocked blond woman with her hands on the sides of her face. There are large block letters reading "She's a Lamb."

March 17 cultureSophia Samilski

She’s a Lamb! details the unapologetic lengths one performer will go to claim the stage

March 9 cultureThorn Austin

Realwheels Theatre accepting artists to disability-led performance arts training program

Four singers stand in front of a wooden entryway. Three are wearing dresses and aprons, and the other stands in the centre wearing a collared shirt and suspenders.

February 13 cultureSpencer Izen and Lauren Kasowski

Rats! Street Scene wasn’t as good as it could’ve been

A character sits at a dining table in the middle of the stage, which is decorated to look like the inside of a house, as they look at another person in a long black robe who is standing to their side. Five people wearing bright yellow jackets with a reflective strip sit around the edges of the stage.

February 5 cultureStella Griffin

UBC Theatre’s The Arsonists is more relevant than ever

The cast of The Very Book Indeed stands in a semicircle, each of them dressed in all black. They hold up sheets of yellowing paper, tossing some of them onto the ground.

November 22 cultureNatalie Vakulin

‘A love letter to the theatre’: Building Shakespeare’s legacy in The Very Book Indeed

Geoffrey Schellenberg as Sir Joseph, a man in a navy uniform with a white moustache.

October 8 cultureJulian Coyle Forst

‘I am the monarch of UBC!’: UBC Opera Ensemble invites audiences aboard the H.M.S. Pinafore

Cartoon illustration of a green sea monster in water, with trees and a sun in the background. A canoe and guitar sit in the water.

September 17 cultureAisha Chaudhry

Camp Goneaway: What can a lost tamagotchi tell us about the climate crisis?

Julie, a girl in a red qi-pao and blue skirt, stands in the middle of both versions of herself.

September 12 cultureIsabella Ma

Qi-Pao and Totally 80s explore teenagehood and identity at the Vancouver Fringe Festival

A vibrantly-coloured stage decorated to look like a circus, with an actor playing guitar in the centre.

September 6 cultureFiona Sjaus

A Shakespeare of our era: Bard on the Beach’s Twelfth Night bends tradition

Two teenage girls in yellow camp t-shirts, crouched on the ground and holding flashlights.

September 5 cultureElena Massing

Your guide to Vancouver Fringe Festival 2024

July 18 cultureLester Lin