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The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival is in full swing and on Wednesday it was the crown jewel of the Festival, the Bacchanalia Gala Dinner + Auction. The wine was flowing and the bids were rising at this year’s premier annual fundraising event for the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company raising over $320,000 this year.
That we chose to [...]
As part of the education and outreach program of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, I have been invited to observe a run-thru of Magee Secondary School’s production of Anything Goes on Friday and then talk with the students involved.
The Playhouse’s educational programs are the cornerstone of our extensive outreach activities. Studies have shown that young people [...]
The Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company presents the 3rd Annual E-Stage Young Playwrights Showcase on Tuesday, April 13 at 7pm. Admission is free. Donations to the Actors’ Fund of Canada are gratefully accepted.
Under the guidance of the curator and co-director of the program, Amiel Gladstone, eight young BC playwrights have been developing an eight-minute scene each [...]
Check out this video converstaion between Vancouver Sun entertainment editor Maggie Langrick and theatre critic Peter Birnie about our new season.
Max
We get criticized so very often, it’s nice to get praised now and then for this kind of work.
“I am heartened that Max Reimer of the Vancouver Playhouse is taking the lead on this and going out of his way to find the very best actors to represent the Canadian Truth – that we are [...]
The Canada Council announced the winners of the Governor General’s Literature Awards today and the winner for Drama is Kevin Loring for Where the Blood Mixes.
Taken by Social Services, and adopted into a family in the city, a daughter returns to her wounded community after many years away. Kevin Loring illuminates the complex aftermath of [...]
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.
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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Even though I am at Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre re-mounting the Jessie Award-winning Playhouse production of The Drowsy Chaperone, I am really excited about how the 09/10 season is taking shape back at the Playhouse. As I’d hoped, these plays of my first full season are attracting some of the brightest new and established stage stars. It’s going [...]
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