Performers Jeremy Crittenden and Alison MacDonald, and Musical Director Gordon Roberts talk about the wonderful world of their upcoming musical revue

The World Goes ‘Round

It’s time to whip out your fishnets, and stroll on over to South Granville. This summer, Another Musical Co-Op presents the sizzling musical revue The World Goes ‘Round, brought to you by the writers of Chicago, John Kander and Fred Ebb. The vast range of human experience is explored in song after impeccable song by one of Broadway’s most daring and successful teams and masters of the heart-grabbing Broadway showstopper.

Along with ‘All That Jazz’, it features songs from Cabaret, New York, New York, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, as well as lesser known gems from shows like The Rink and Liza Minelli’s The Act. Filled with humour and drama, the show explores the state of the world today and the human condition through insightful lyrics and soaring melodies, all put together into jazzy, modern arrangements.

Featuring the directing talents of Shane Snow, musical direction by Gordon Roberts, and choreography by Snow and Melissa Young, The World Goes ‘Round is sure to bring some heat. Along for the ride is a handful of Vancouver’s finest: Jeremy Crittenden, Sarah Gay, Tim Gledhill, Alison MacDonald, and Jennifer Neumann.

The World Goes ‘Round will be presented at Pacific Theatre, located at 1440 W 12th Ave.

August 20th - 23rd and 25th - 30th at 8pm, with matinees August 23rd and 30th at 2 pm.

General Admission
Adult: $23.00 Student/Senior: $21.00.

For tickets call Tickets Tonight at 604.684.2787, or buy tickets online at
www.ticketstonight.ca

Performers Duncan Shields, Joanna Gaskell, Blake Drezet and Michael Cope on why you should go see

Spectral Theatre’s Late-Night Double Feature

Beginning this week and then every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night through until the end of the summer, Spectral Theatre presents two terrifying tales for one frighteningly low-price!!!

Opening weekend for the final set of our summer series! A sci-fi/horror extravaganza featuring…

Nimbus written by Blake Drezet, directed by Michael Cope and featuring Aurora Chan, Joanna Gaskell, Vincent Riel & Devan Vancise.

andThe Hunted written by Blake Drezet, directed by JC Roy and featuring Blake Drezet, Vincent Riel & Duncan Shields.

Spectral Theatre Studio
350 Powell Street

Info@spectraltheatre.com

Doors at 9:30 PM Show at 10:00 PM Tickets $8. It’ll fill up fast so book your tickets early.

Click here for Spectral Theatre’s official website

Actor/Producer Sean Gilchrist tells us why we should get out and see

Written by: Kenneth Lonergan

Directed by: Robert Woolsey

Starring: Sean Gilchrist, Andrew Baker, Sydney Cochrane

Presented by: Baked Snake Productions

This is Our Youth follows forty-eight hours of three very lost young souls in the big city at the dawn of the Reagan Era: Warren Struab, a dejected nineteen year-old who steals fifteen-thousand dollars from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father; Dennis Ziegler, the charismatic domineering drug dealing friend who helps him put the money to good use; and Jessica Goldman, the anxiously insightful young woman Warren yearns for. Funny, painful, and compassionate, This is Our Youth is a living snapshot of the moment between adolescence and adulthood when many young people first go into the world on their own, armed only with the ideas and techniques they developed as teenagers - ideas and techniques far more sophisticated than their parents ever realize, and far less effectual than they themselves can possibly imagine.

The Havana Theatre
1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC
August 26-30th, 2008
Doors at 6:30 pm, Curtain at 7:00 pm
The show on the 26th will be a minimum $5 donation, and then it will be $15 per ticket from the 27-30th.

FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact Sean Gilchrist at sean_gilchrist@hotmail.com or visit our Facebook event: “This Is Our Youth - August 26-30th“

The full cast discuss some reasons for you to check out their upcoming play

Written by: Eric Bogosian

Directed by: Sabrina Evertt

Presented by Twenty-Something Theatre

One night a group of suburban twenty-year olds gather outside their local convenience store to welcome home an old friend who is returning after a successful national tour with his rock band. His arrival in a limousine with entourage in tow precipitates an all night whirlwind of drinking, sex & violence. As morning arrives tragedy and comedy have laced through the lives of these young people and changed them forever.

August 19 - August 31, 2008

Playwright’s Theatre Centre, #210-1398 Cartwright St.

Previews August 19 & 20

Two-for-one Wednesdays and Sundays

Talkback August 26

8:00 pm

Tickets: $22 Adults, $16 Seniors/Students (with valid student ID), $10 Previews

Tickets available at the door or from Tickets Tonight at www.ticketstonight.ca or by phone at 604-684-2787

Please Note: Explicit Language & Sexual Content

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Actors Keegan Flick-Parker, Sofie Newman and Emily Snee tell us about their upcoming outdoor production of

Presented by: Carousel Theatre’s Teen Shakespeare Program

Free Play!

Head instructor Jack Paterson re-envisions Shakespeare’s romantic comedy in the 1950s – from Elizabethan court life to McCarthy-era society. Rosalind and Celia translate into all-American girls in poodle-skirts and bobby socks; the Forest of Arden becomes a den of beatniks and bohemians.

Shakespeare’s As You Like It establishes the boundary between courtly esteem and banishment – just as 1950s America stressed the divide between the patriotic mainstream and the rebels without a cause. Carmen Allatore’s bold design concept uses cinematic and cultural icons – James Dean, Elvis Presley, Joseph McCarthy, Jack Kerouac - as a visual shorthand to bring all the political and social tumult of the 50s immediately to mind within Shakespeare’s timeless story arc.

No matter when or where, one thing is certain –
“Love is merely a madness”

August 1 – 16, 2008. The show runs Monday to Saturday from August 1 to 16 at 7:30 PM
with matinees August 2, 4, 9, and 16 at 2:00 PM. Previews August 1 at 7:30 PM and
August 2 at 2:00 PM

Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright Street, on Granville Island

The show is FREE General Seating. Call the box office for more info at 604.685.6217

or click here for more show info

Actor Michelle Kim talks about her upcoming play

Metamorphoses

Written by Mary Zimmerman

Directed by Christine Willes

Metamorphoses Theatre Company proudly presents Mary Zimmerman’s award-winning play, Metamorphoses, a modern retelling of the classic myths of Ovid. Enchanting, reflective, set in and around a swimming pool, Metamorphoses was hailed as “the theatre event of the year” (Time Magazine) in New York in 2002. Its Vancouver debut happens July 31 to August 16, 2008 at Pacific Theatre.

Metamorphoses includes 10 stories that were written 2000 years ago, updated (Phaeton is a whiny teenager on a therapist’s couch who wants to drive his father’s car) and relevant to today (Erysichthon is a man who is set on the destruction of natural resources). Linked thematically, (“let me not outlive my own capacity to love”), the stories flow from one to the other, transforming and morphing through the pool, which is more than the set—it is a character in the play. Creative and theatrical, Metamorphoses is also a feast for the senses.

July 31-Aug 16 at Pacific Theatre - 1440 W. 12th Avenue.

Performances are Tuesdays through Fridays 8pm, and Saturdays at 7 and 9:30 pm.

Ticket prices are Tuesday through Thursday: $20/$18 and Friday through Saturday: $25/$23.

There will be a pay-what-you-can preview July 30, and Tuesdays are two-for-one.

Tickets are available online at www.pacifictheatre.org or in advance at
Biz Books 302 West Cordova Street. For ticket information please call 604-224-4534

Playwright/Cast Member Sebastien Archibald and Director Chelsea Haberlin tell us why we should see their play

Grimm Tales

An ITSAZOO Production (official site)

Written by Sebastien Archibald

Directed by Chelsea Haberlin

Take a walk through the deep, dark and lovely woods of Mount Douglas Park as ITSAZOO Productions brings a modern adaptation of the classic fairytales of the brothers Grimm to life.

Written by Sebastien Archibald, Grimm Tales takes audiences on a magical journey through the Enchanted Forest with rookie tour guides Hansel and Gretel on their first day of work for the Greater Enchanted Forestry Board. Along the way they encounter the fascinating inhabitants of the fantastical fairytale kingdom. Underscored and accompanied by the Bremen Town Musicians, audiences are re-introduced to the classic tales of the Frog Prince, Rumplestiltskin, Rapunzel and Briar Rose in a farcical and contemporary context. However, when Hansel and Gretel find themselves off of the assigned path and lost, they begin to discover “the woods are lovely, dark and deep”.

Grimm Tales unique outdoor theatre approach adds to the vibrancy of the Victoria theatre scene by providing audiences with the opportunity to appreciate art in harmony with the natural beauty of Vancouver Island,” states ITSAZOO co-artistic director, Chelsea Haberlin, who directs the show. ITSAZOO’s mandate is to create theatre in unconventional and found spaces.

The original production of Grimm Tales was the 2007 winner of ‘Best New Play’ in both the Victoria Critics Choice Awards and Monday Magazine ‘M’ Awards.

July 17-August 2, 2008

In Victoria at Mount Douglas Park

Tuesday through Saturday at 7pm - Saturday Matinee at 2pm

To reserve tickets in Victoria call (250) 382-6162

August 14 - 30, 2008

In Vancouver at Queen Elizabeth Park

Tuesday through Sunday at 7pm

To purchase tickets in Vancouver call the Bloedel Conservatory - (604) 257-8584

Tix: Children under 12 - $10

Under 30 - Over 65 - $13

Adults - $15

Playwright/Actor Trevor Devall and cast offer a little taste of their play

The Back Kitchen Release Party

Written by Trevor Devall

Directed by Don Noble

Starring Trevor Devall, Sarah Donald, Tracey Power, Sarah May Redmond, Jonathan Teague

“It’s just good clean East-Coast table thumpin’ music.” Stomp along, shed a tear, and laugh yourself silly as The Back Kitchen gigs its way across Canada with wit and fiddle. A once-popular Newfoundland party staple, the band reunites for a final performance in Vancouver in honour of a founding of a founding member. Join The Back Kitchen for a big-hearted musical journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

This little-play-that-could started out as a hit Fringe show, snowballed in popularity and now, after being on tour for a while, has landed at the Arts Club Granville Island Stage. A delighful and purely Canadian work.

Click here for the full song and trailer

This Play Has Been Held Over! Extra Week Added!

At the Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston Street) from June 19 to August 9

(Previews: June 19-25; Media opening: June 25).

Monday at 8 pm, Tuesday at 7:30 pm, Wednesday-Saturday at 8 pm, and Wednesday & Saturday at 2 pm.

Tix $28-$41 inclusive of fees of and taxes, with discounts for students, seniors, and groups.

Call the Arts Club Box Office @ 604.687.1644 or visit artsclub.com

Playwright/Actor/Producer Tina Teeninga talks about her latest work…

The Saddest Girl in the World

Written by Tina Teeninga

Dramaturged by Kathy Parsons

Directed by Dirk Van Stralen and Kathy Parsons

Separated from everyone she knows. Haunted by a bloody past. Natya believes Canada is the beginning of a new life. Canada harbours dirty secrets of its own, however, and Natya must face personal demons in a fight to survive. Natya’s one possible ally is Ava: an innocent woman she has never met, whose dreams of jewels glimmer with hope.

Click here for the official website

August 26th - August 30th - Carousel Theatre, 1411 Cartwright Street, Granville Island

Free tickets to new immigrants and recent refugees!

To reserve tickets please contact tickets@saddestgirl.com

HIVE producer and Neworld founder Camyar Chai on the genious of HIVE 2 at Magnetic North

From the Magnetic North Official Web Site:

11 local companies perform 11 separate pieces in continuous rotation. Brace yourself for a carnival side-show, a piece of toy drama, a post-modern slice of faux dinner theatre … or different combinations of all that and more. The audience’s experience is entirely self-directed, and there’s always a lounge for shouting and a central party space to buzz the night away.

HIVE2. Don’t miss your chance to get pollinated. There will be more room this time.

Warning: Smoke, nudity, foul language and gunshots are all within the realm of possibility… Or none of the above

Great Northern Way Campus 577 Great Northern Way

Thurs 5-Sun 8, Tues 10-Sat 14