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Monthly Archives: October 2009

The reviews are in!

Peter Birnie - Vancouver Sun: Meg Roe continues her campaign to breath new life into live theatre. The Playhouse opens its 47th season with a luminous production of The Miracle Worker, a play quite capable

Jennifer Clement, Tom Butler, Anna Cummer (Photo: David Cooper)

of choking on its dust but given a sparkling showcase by the diminutive director. [...]

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Memorial for Lloyd Nicholson

The Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, Royal City Musical Theatre and Studio 58 will lead the Vancouver arts community in a memorial and celebration of the life of Lloyd Nicholson on Monday, October 26 at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre (Hamilton & Dunsmuir) beginning at 7pm.

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Did you know?

Did you know that two young girls are alternating playing the role of Helen Keller in The Mirackle Worker? Margot Berner began acting at the age of five and is the middle child of a talented family. Emma Grabinsky loves to act in musical theatre and classical Shakespeare. She was recently seen in Gilpin School’s original [...]

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Playhouse Mourns Lloyd Nicholson

I am very saddened to announce that musical director Lloyd Nicholson passed away unexpectedly this morning in Ottawa. Lloyd was working on the remount of the Playhouse’s production of The Drowsy Chaperone at the National Arts Centre, which is scheduled to open on Friday, October 16. Lloyd was set to musical direct Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on his [...]

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