Vancity Culture Lab (The Cultch) to September 20, 2025
My first thought after the curtain fell on the evening I saw The Animal Kingdom: the playwright must have had first-hand experience to be able to write with such surgical precision about this dysfunctional family’s experience with depression and self-harm.
Lili Martin as Sofia, Advah Soudack (Rita) and Mozi Mayaleh (Sam) in The Animal Kingdom. Credit: Vickie Legere
Jericho Arts Centre to September 28, 2025
Metamorphoses is an ancient poem given new life by a trio of emerging directors, highly creative designers and a fresh young cast. Ovid without the dust of the ages.
Hazel Kang as Iris and Blake Buksa as Aphrodite in Metamorphoses. Credit: Michelle Lee
Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park, to August 14, 2025
Theatre Under the Stars, celebrating its 85th season, must be revelling in this warm weather night after night.
The cast of Legally Blonde The Musical with Abby Woodhouse (aloft) as Elle Woods. Credit: Emily Cooper
Bard on the Beach (Vanier Park) to September 20, 2025
If you’re curious about what’s going on under the tents down at Vanier Park from June 10-September 20, but you hate Shakespeare, this one’s for you.
Tess Degenstein in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]. Photo and Image Design: Emily Cooper
Bard on the Beach to September 20, 2025
When director Johnna Wright cast the effervescent Jennifer Lines – she of the riotous tresses and a smile that lights up the whole BMO Mainstage – Wright knew she would have a Much Ado About Nothing that would be really something.
Sheldon Elter as Benedick and Jennifer Lines as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. Image and photo by Emily Cooper
Bard on the Beach to September 19, 2025
Director Dean Paul Gibson is having his way with Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona on the BMO Mainstage at Bard on the Beach these evenings.
Jacob Leonard as Proteus and Matthew Ip Shaw as Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Photo and image design by Emily Cooper.
Jericho Arts Centre to June 22, 2025
Treat yourself. Go and see this show before it sells out. Playwright Oscar Wilde would have loved this production: elegant, classy, handsome and pretty at the same time, saucy and a little bit sexy, featuring some serious gender-bending.
Hayley Sullivan as Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband. Credit: Matt Reznek
Firehall Arts Centre to May 31, 2025
Prepare to be charmed. Michelle Thrush, award-winning Cree writer/ performer, takes you on a personal journey from childhood to grandmotherhood in just one hour of joy and laughter.
Michelle Thrush in Inner Elder. Credit: Ben Laird
Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) to May 25, 2025
We are born. We die. It’s all a mystery. And there is, if you’re lucky, much joy and lots of laughter along the way. Remarkably, Here We Go is often wryly funny. I loved this Western Gold Theatre production.
David Bloom, Kate Robbins, Peihwen J. Tai, Richard Newman, Rosy Frier-Dryden and Bernard Cuffling in Here We Go. Credit: Javier Sotres
Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to May 25, 2025
Casey and Diana, written by Canadian playwright Nick Green, is a reminder of the past – specifically the 80s and 90s – when the HIV/AIDS crisis was sweeping the planet and theatres were producing a flood of AIDS-related plays.
Lindsey Angell, as Diana, and Damien Atkins, as Thomas, in Casey and Diana. Credit: Moonrider Productions