What is it with the Arts Club this time of year? It’s becoming increasingly difficult to feel engaged in television or movies with the outstanding calibre of theatre available in this city. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is classic theatre by Edward Albee. It’s a true love story under the intense microscope of reality. If [...]
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Theatre Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Posted in Theatre, tagged Arts Club Theatre, Craig Erickson, Gabrielle Rose, Kevin McNulty, Meg Roe, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Theatre Review: Death of a Salesman
Posted in Theatre, tagged Arthur Miller, Bob Frazer, Death of a Salesman, Demosthenes, Tom McBeath, Vancouver Playhouse on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The greek philosopher Demosthenes once said, “The easiest thing of all is to deceive one’s self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.” Demosthenes wrote this some 2000 years before playwright Arthur Miller introduced Willy Loman to the world in 1949’s Death of a Salesman, and yet he described Willy, otherwise [...]
Theatre Review: August – Osage Country
Posted in Theatre, tagged Andrew Wheeler, Arts Club Theatre, Marsha Sibthorpe, Susinn McFarlan, Ted Roberts on February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Think your family’s dysfunctional? Prepare to be upstaged. Osage County, Oklahoma may be far from the cold of Canada, but it’s themes and family dynamics transcend any border. The play tells the story of a family brought back together by the suicide of their father. The matriarch of the family chooses to cope with the [...]
Theate Review: Floating
Posted in Theatre, tagged Arts Club Theatre, Floating, Luis Bunuel, Revue Stage on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There are times in life when it’s difficult to separate fact from fiction in our memories. After seeing Floating, you may catch yourself pondering some of these inconsistencies in your own life. It’s a theme that lurks innocently under the guise of a genuinely funny comedy. Upon arriving at the recently renovated Revue Stage on [...]
Theatre Review: The 39 Steps
Posted in Theatre, tagged David Marr, Dean Paul Gibson, Diana Coatsworth, Hitchcock, Martin Happer, Monty Python, Shawn Macdonald, Ted Roberts, The 39 Steps, The Arts Club on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Unbeknownst to me, it was the first night of the World Series. My gentleman companion made no mention of this fact and accepted my invitation to the theatre. Oopsies. Men love women who do that, non? Lucky for both of us, The 39 Steps was a tasty morsel of theatre. Hijinks the likes of Monty [...]
Vancouver International Fringe Festival
Posted in Theatre, tagged 7(x1) Samurai, Alice Nelson, Chris Craddock, David Gaines, Escape Artist I, Escape Artist II, Fanta Sesay, Jacquleline Russell, Joanna Garfinkle, Joel Grinke, Joel Stephanson, Kaitlin Williams, Kathy Parsons, Lady Gaga, Martin Gover, Niki Brown, Sarah Grover, Seven Samurai, Vancouver International Fringe Festival on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
September isn’t just about back to school. It also means the Vancouver International Fringe Festival is starting up and therefore making the back to school transition a bit more bearable. This year’s eclectic line-up has a little something for everyone, from an indepth look at the phenomenon of Girls Gone Wild to a performance on [...]
Theatre Review: Becky’s New Car
Posted in Theatre, tagged Arts Club Theatre, Becky's New Car, Deborah Williams on May 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A mid-life crisis is taken to a whole new level of hilarity with Stephen Dietz’ Becky’s New Car. Spoken from the perspective of the protagonist Becky, the play’s charm is largely due in part to actors and the direct communication with the audience through most of the play. The audience feels almost like another major [...]
Theatre Review: The Love List
Posted in Link Newspaper, Theatre, tagged BCIT Link, BCIT Student Newspaper, BCITSA, Calin Stadnyk’s, Norm Foster, Pamela Anderson, Peter Anderson, The Love List, The Vancouver Playhouse on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a reason why Norm Foster is Canada’s most produced playwright. Making its western Canadian debut, Foster’s play The Love List brings laughs, witty dialogue and a group of charming yet slightly neurotic characters. The play begins with Leon giving his lonely friend Bill a much needed membership to a dating service as his 50th [...]
Theatre Review: Paradise Garden
Posted in Link Newspaper, Theatre, tagged Arts Club Theatre, BCIT Link, BCIT Student Newspaper, BCITSA, Gina Chiarelli’s, Kevin MacDonald, Lucia Frangione, Paradise Garden, Playwrights Guild of Canada on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Canadian playwright Lucia Frangione debuts her latest work Paradise Garden through the Arts Club Theatre Company, and in turn presents a less than stellar world premiere. For those who are unfamiliar with Frangione’s work, she’s an established playwright, who’s previous work has been nominated for seven Jessie Awards, not to mention, she sits on the [...]
Theatre Review: White Christmas by the Arts Club
Posted in Link Newspaper, Theatre, tagged Arts Club Theatre, Beauty and the Beast, Bill Millerd, Bing Crosby, disney, Irving Berlin’s, Jeffrey Victor, Michael Buble, Monique Lund’s, Sara-Jeanne Hosie, Todd Talbot, Valerie Easton, White Christmas on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Holiday fun has officially begun at the Arts Club Theatre. The stage adaptation of Irving Berlin’s classic 1954 movie White Christmas makes into a fun family-friendly musical, with all the extra fixings. Bill Millerd once again takes the director’s chair, having helmed most of the Arts Club’s previous musical productions, most notably: the popular multiple [...]
