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Vancouver TUTS’ We Will Rock You and Something Rotten! Champion Diversity

by Tara Lee in Entertainment, Family Friendly on June 22, 2022

TUTS’ We Will Rock You; Photo: Emily Cooper

When Saccha Dennis, director of Theatre Under the Stars’ upcoming production of We Will Rock You, played Alice in an elementary school production of Alice in Wonderland, an audience member in the front row looking at her curiously. As a Black actor, director, and educator, she’s spent her whole life negotiating and defying expectations of what theatre should look like.

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Vancouver TUTS’ We Will Rock You and Something Rotten! Champion Diversity

Vancouver’s Theatre Under the Stars Returns with Blockbuster Sensations ‘Something Rotten!’ and ‘We Will Rock You’

by Inside Vancouver in Entertainment on June 1, 2022

Photo: Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS)

Audiences will indulge in a hilarious love letter to Broadway and revel in a worldwide sensation of Queen’s most beloved rock-and-roll hits when Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) presents Something Rotten! and We Will Rock You, running alternate evenings July 2–August 27, 2022, at Stanley Park’s scenic Malkin Bowl. A beloved Vancouver tradition since 1940, TUTS’ early bird tickets are on sale now through June 16. Continue reading:
Vancouver’s Theatre Under the Stars Returns with Blockbuster Sensations ‘Something Rotten!’ and ‘We Will Rock You’

Theatre Reviews: Infectious Energy in TUTS’ Mamma Mia! and Disney’s Newsies

by Tara Lee in Entertainment on July 17, 2019

Top Row L-R: Image of Lori Ashton Zondag as Tanya and Caitriona Murphy as Donna in Mamma Mia! with Adam Charles as Jack and Caleb Lagayan as Race in Disney’s Newsies. Bottom Row L-R: Image of Sheryl Wheaton as Rosie in Mamma Mia! with Graeme Kitagawa as Mush in Disney’s Newsies. Photo by Lindsay Elliott.

Theatre Under the Stars’ new season has launched, and it’s bursting with uplifting song and dance.

From now until August 17, 2019, Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) performs Mamma Mia! and Disney’s Newsies on alternate nights at Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl. They’re excellent productions; if you can’t choose between them, you should definitely see both.

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Theatre Reviews: Infectious Energy in TUTS’ Mamma Mia! and Disney’s Newsies

Vancouver’s Theatre Under the Stars Returns with Two Beloved Musicals

by Tara Lee in Entertainment on May 29, 2019

L-R: Image of Sheryl Wheaton as Rosie, Lori Zondag as Tanya and Caitriona Murphy as Donna in Mamma Mia! with Adam Charles as Jack, Caleb Lagayan as Race and Graeme Kitagawa as Mush in Disney’s Newsies. Photo by Lindsay Elliott

A Vancouver summer tradition is fast approaching once again: ever-popular Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS).

In the heart of Stanley Park, audiences have been gathering at Malkin Bowl for 79 years in order to experience TUTS’ spirited musical theatre productions. This year’s season promises to be full of exuberance, talent, and fabulous singing and dancing.

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Vancouver’s Theatre Under the Stars Returns with Two Beloved Musicals

TUTS Vancouver’s Mary Poppins Will Make You Believe in Magic

by Tara Lee in Uncategorized on July 13, 2017

Ranae Miller as Mary Poppins; Photo Credit: Tim Matheson

The first time I watched the movie version of Mary Poppins, I was filled with wonder as the Banks children were introduced to the infinite talents of their new nanny. What would Mary Poppins do next? How could I also enter the world that she created?

That feeling of joyful suspension of disbelief returned when I recently attended a performance of Theatre Under the Stars’ (TUTS’) Mary Poppins (TUTS runs until August 19, 2017). Overall, it was an exuberantly entertaining, talent-packed, and, above all, magical staging of this well-loved Broadway Musical.
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TUTS Vancouver’s Mary Poppins Will Make You Believe in Magic

Theatre Under the Stars is Back This Summer with High-Flying Hilarity (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

by Inside Vancouver in Entertainment on June 30, 2017

photo: Tim Matheson

Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) injects a delightful dose of magical entertainment into summer with Mary Poppins & The Drowsy Chaperone, running July 7 – August 19, 2017 at Stanley Park’s picturesque Malkin Bowl. On alternating evenings, audiences can indulge in these high-flying adventures – one, an iconic family musical starring an ever so enchanting nanny; the other, a riotous Broadway sensation and tribute to the Roaring Twenties.

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Theatre Under the Stars is Back This Summer with High-Flying Hilarity (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Date Idea: Watch Beauty and the Beast and West Side Story Under the Stars

by Tara Lee in Entertainment, Uncategorized on June 30, 2016

Sourced from TUTS

Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) is set to launch a brand new season, which the not-for-profit theatre company is calling the “Summer of Love.”

From July 6 to August 20, Vancouver’s TUTS will be running two well-known and swoon inducing musicals on alternating nights: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and West Side Story. My boyfriend and I will be definitely going to at least one of the shows!

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Date Idea: Watch Beauty and the Beast and West Side Story Under the Stars