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We’re almost at the end of our first week of rehearsals for Brief Encounter. What a lot of fun we’re having. It’s so good to have Meg Roe (associate director) and Claire French (assistant choreographer) in the rehearsal hall with me, and of course, music director Steve Charles. For a non-musical, it certainly has a [...]
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This is our last weekend of rehearsals in the reahearsal hall. It is always an exciting time as rehearsals come to an end and the move into the theatre begins. Move-in happens on Tuesday, dress rehearsal is on Friday and our first preview is Saturday. Opening night is Oct. 7. Between Tuesday and Friday we add the technical elements: the set, [...]
The Vancouver theatre summer season comes to an end with a very special show. Ryan Beil and David Bloom both won Jessie Awards in June; fittingly they are now working together on a labour of love, five years in the dreaming: David Mamet’s melancholy comedy A Life in the Theatre will play in the Recital [...]
I always enjoy being asked if we close down during the summer. What people don’t realize is that it takes an awful lot of planning to come up with a season and much of this happens during the summer months: scheduling, auditions, contracting, etc., etc.
I am very pleased to announce that I have completed casting for The Fantasticks, the opening [...]
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.
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I’m very happy to be able to announce the LIFE STORIES of the 2010/2011 Season, my second as Artistic Managing Director.
The Fantasticks is the longest running production of any kind in the history of American theatre and it will open our 48th season. With Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones and Music by Harvey Schmidt, The [...]
