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Commodore Ballroom, Photo: Rick Chung/YVArcade
Summer concert season in Vancouver is in full swing. Keep cool by enjoying some great music performances and concerts at various venues, theatres, and outdoor settings across the city. Whether it’s a cozy, intimate stage, big concert hall, open-air outdoor space, or public park, spend the summer listening to live music anywhere you can.
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Keep Cool for Summer Concert Season in Vancouver
Kaila Symone Crowder in Hairspray, Photo: Jeremy Daniel/Broadway Across Canada
Spring theatre season usually means big stage musical and dance performances perfect for the whole family to enjoy. Vancouver has a rich cultural and entertainment scene and hosts big stage shows every year. World-class theatre and arts festivals like Bard on the Beach, PuSh, and Vancouver Fringe are among the many big-ticket cultural events the city is known for.
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Theatre for the Whole Family Coming to Vancouver This Spring
The cast of COME FROM AWAY, Photo by Matthew Murphy, 2016.
It’s taken three years for the smash hit Canadian musical to come to town. But tickets for the first-ever Vancouver performances of Come From Away finally go on sale this coming Monday, Dec. 10 at 10 a.m.
The across-the-board success comes to Queen Elizabeth Theatre March 5-10. Find out more about this Tony Award-winning must-see musical below.
Monica L. Patton, Kevin Clay and Conner Peirson in The Book of Mormon, Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2017. Photo: Julieta Cervantes
One of the most acclaimed musicals of the century is returning to Vancouver.
Since it opened on Broadway in 2011, The Book of Mormon has been showered with praise and awards. Beginning Sept 25 and running until Sept 30, the show returns to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, where it played to packed houses in 2016.
Bill Burr appears at this year’s JFL NorthWest comedy festival.
JFL NorthWest is adding a block party to its 10-day comedy festival.
The block party takes place March 7-9 (Wed-Fri) from 5-10 p.m. at the Queen Elizabeth Plaza (695 Cambie St.). The outdoor party features a big screen, live music, food trucks, libations and even Victor, the Just for Laughs mascot. See below for more details.
Ballet BC Dancers Brandon Alley and Emily Chessa. Cindi Wicklund photo.
A fresh retelling of Romeo and Juliet is a first for Ballet B.C.
The company is presenting the world premiere of this specially commissioned piece. It’s a new, contemporary take of the Shakespeare play from Medhi Walerski, a rising French star of the international dance scene.
Ballet BC’s production of Romeo + Juliet plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Feb. 21-24. Find out more below.
Tanya Tagaq, pictured here performing in Vancouver in 2011, is one of the performers at the inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival. Ashley Tanasiychuk photo.
Beginning April 28 and running until May 13, Vancouver will host its first opera festival. Presented by Vancouver Opera, the Vancouver Opera Festival includes three operas as well as concerts from celebrated Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq and German cabaret stylist Ute Lemper, an art installation by Vancouver artist Paul Wong, and more. Festival-goers will also be able to party and talk opera at an opera bar and tent set up on the plaza outside Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton St.) in downtown Vancouver.
That’s not all, as we learned in a conversation with Tom Wright, Director of Artist Planning.
