QUEEN LEAR
March 25-April 10
Presentation House
http://www.phtheatre.org
Presented by the Third Street Theatre Series and Western Gold. An aging actress cast in an all female production of Queen Lear hires a young girl to help her memorize her lines. Musing on the different stages of life that both women exemplify, illustrating beautifully how time and experience separate them, this beautiful and touching story about the strength of the female spirit is not be missed. The play features celebrated actor Shirley Broderick and cellist Peggy Lee.
THE WHITE SPIDER
March 12-13
Roundhouse Community Centre
http://www.mascalldance.ca
Produced by Mascall Dance, in association with the Vancouver International Dance Festival, The White Spider draws inspiration from Henrich Harrer’s book, of the same name, which chronicles the history of the many failed attempts to scale the North Face of the Eiger Mountain, as well as the first successful ascent by Harrer’s party in 1938.
FOOTLOOSE
March 25 – April 3
Performing Arts Theatre, Cap U
http://www.capilanou.ca/exit22
Stage Adaptation by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie, Based on the Original Screenplay by Dean Pitchford, Music by Tom Snow, Lyrics by Dean Pitchford, Additional Music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins & Jim Steinman, Directed by Gillian Barber. Footloose explodes onto the stage with classic ’80 s anthems including Holding Out for a Hero, Almost Paradise, Let’s Hear It for the Boy and, of course, the title track Footloose. Life in small-town Bomont is peaceful until city boy, Ren, arrives. Breaking every taboo, Ren brings dance back to the heart of a town held back by the memory of a tragedy. To the rockin’ rhythm of its Oscar and Tony-nominated top 40 score and augmented with dynamic new songs for the stage musical, Footloose celebrates the wisdom of listening to young people and guiding them with a warm heart and an open mind.
WORLD THEATRE DAY
March 27 (and the week of)
Various venues/companies
http://www.gvpta.ca/world-theatre-day
BRIDGE MIX
May 5-8 and 11-15
Enlightenment Theatre and ITSAZOO Productions
1070 West Pender (parkade)
http://www.itsazoo.org
ITSAZOO Productions and Enlightenment Theatre present Bridge Mix, Vancouver’s latest site-specific event. Bridge Mix features 9 of Vancouver’s most exciting emerging and established Theatre Companies performing original installations in the top three levels of a downtown parkade. The audience will be led through out the parkade to observe how each scene integrates this urban backdrop and converts it into a performance space. Bridge Mix will also feature music and a roving bar. Participating companies include, Tiger Milk Collective, Upintheair Theatre, Genus Theatre, Spectral Theatre, Slam Ink, Blooming Thorn Productions, and the Peter and Chris Show.
PLAN B
May 14-29
Sea Theatre
Presentation House
http://www.seatheatre.com/
High-level meetings to negotiate the departure of Québec from Canada are charged by personal impulses toward seduction and betrayal, union and division, intimacy and distance. The action takes place in a hotel bedroom and a boardroom – a private space and a public space. Music, humour, sex and politics are the key metaphors in this truly Canadian farce.
HERR BECKMANN’S PEOPLE
June 10-19
Touchstone Theatre
PTC
http://touchstonetheatre.com
Written by Sally Stubbs and directed by Katrina Dunn.
Art, war and the politics of culture collide in Sally Stubbs’ poetic and moving account of a family’s legacy of beauty and brutality. Returning to the city she ran from decades ago. Anna forces her family to answer to tough questions about their past. While her mother plays a private concert, history unravels and she is confronted with a moral dilemma of her own. Art, war and the politics of culture collide in Sally Stubbs’ poetic and moving account of a family’s legacy of beauty and brutality. Returning to the city she ran from decades ago. Anna forces her family to answer to tough questions about their past. While her mother plays a private concert, history unravels and she is confronted with a moral dilemma of her own.
