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August 2018
Paradise Lost by Erin Shields
THE DEVIL WEARS SNAKESKIN. Inspired by John Milton’s epic poem of the cosmic battle between good and evil, Satan’s revenge and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, this ultra-contemporary new drama is fiercely engaging, irreverently…
Find out more »October 2018
Brad Fraser’s Powerful Black Comedy Kill Me Now Receives Vancouver Premiere from Touchstone Theatre
Five years since its Canadian premiere at Edmonton’s Workshop West Theatre, with subsequent celebrated productions in New York, London, Winnipeg, and Ottawa, Touchstone Theatre brings Brad Fraser’s frank, fearless, and ferociously funny play to Vancouver audiences. Jake (Bob Frazer) is…
Find out more »Kill Me Now by Brad Fraser
Jake is a single dad and cares for his teen son Joey, who has a severe disability. Handling Joey’s puberty is hard enough, but when Jake develops a serious medical condition, he becomes the one to rely on the people…
Find out more »Blood: A Scientific Romance by Meg Braem – Fringe Theatre Spotlight
Twin sisters Poubelle and Angelique are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought home with Dr. Glass after…
Find out more »Now You See Her by Amy Nostbakken, Norah Sadava and Collective
NIGHTWOOD THEATRE + QUOTE UNQUOTE COLLECTIVE + WHY NOT THEATRE They are the invisible, the vanishing and the disappeared. In an insurrectionary outburst of original music, words and movement, six characters in Now You See Her explore some of the diverse ways…
Find out more »Silence by Trina Davies
Mabel Hubbard Bell was a strong, self-assured woman – bright, passionate, and a complete original. Despite a near-fatal case of childhood scarlet fever that cost her the ability to hear, she learned to talk and lip-read in multiple languages. At…
Find out more »Secret Life of a Mother by Hannah Moscovitch
A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood: a confessional piece about her own darkly funny and taboo-breaking truths. One of her oldest friends, an actress, tells this story, and through it, her own motherhood secrets start to surface. This…
Find out more »“Harlem Duet” by Djanet Sears
Tarragon Theatre begins their 2018/2019 Season beginning with Harlem Duet by multi award-winning and nationally recognized playwright Djanet Sears. Djanet Sears’ rhapsodic blues riff on Othello whisks the tale off to Harlem, where a college professor leaves his grad student wife for a white…
Find out more »“Theory” by Norman Yeung
Tarragon Theatre coontinues their 2018/2019 season with Theory by Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition winner, Norman Yeung. A hot button play for our times! Isabelle, a young tenure-track professor, tests the limits of free speech by encouraging her students to contribute to…
Find out more »Billy Bishop Goes to War – by John MacLachlan Gray
The "top Canadian ace" of the First World War, Billy Bishop was a decorated war hero, earning the Victoria Cross for gallantry. Bishop came a long way from ill-mannered, cheating Royal Military College student from Owen Sound, to Lieutenant-Colonel of…
Find out more »“The Piano Teacher” by Dorothy Dittrich.
The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a tour of the award winning play "The Piano Teacher" - lessons on life, loss and letting go: When Erin, a classical pianist, experiences the loss of the life she knew, she also finds…
Find out more »The Drowning Girls by Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson & Daniela Vlaskalic
A haunting play about three brides who share two things in common: they all married the same man, and they are all dead. Emerging from their clawfoot bathtubs, Bessie, Alice and Margaret share the evidence against a murderous man in…
Find out more »“Harlem Duet” by Djanet Sears
Tarragon Theatre begins their 2018/2019 Season beginning with Harlem Duet by multi award-winning and nationally recognized playwright Djanet Sears. Djanet Sears’ rhapsodic blues riff on Othello whisks the tale off to Harlem, where a college professor leaves his grad student wife for a white…
Find out more »“Theory” by Norman Yeung
Tarragon Theatre coontinues their 2018/2019 season with Theory by Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition winner, Norman Yeung. A hot button play for our times! Isabelle, a young tenure-track professor, tests the limits of free speech by encouraging her students to contribute to…
Find out more »“The Piano Teacher” by Dorothy Dittrich.
The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a tour of the award winning play "The Piano Teacher" - lessons on life, loss and letting go: When Erin, a classical pianist, experiences the loss of the life she knew, she also finds…
Find out more »