Moving Theatre News

Last week at the Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg, Laura Bachman’s new creation Commençons par faire l’amour premiered as an intimate, yet universal meditation on love, memory, and gender.

The 22nd Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival runs October 31–November 8, 2025, with over 100 events across 40 venues in Vancouver. This year’s theme, Dignity in Community, highlights music, theatre, Indigenous performance, walking tours, film, and more.

An extra week of performances have been added to the world premiere season of The Lark starring Noni Hazlehurst at Arts Centre Melbourne. Learn more about the show here!

Scottish theatre producing duo, Raw Material, Gillian Garrity and Margaret-Anne O'Donnell, have announced their upcoming productions and commissions including the world premiere of theatre show Windblown.

The DTES Heart of the City Festival announced its lineup for 2024, featuring over 100 events including music, theatre, and visual arts, celebrating the cultural diversity and artistic talent of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Originally created and conceived by Mark Clements, The Greatest Love for Whitney celebrates the amazing career and legacy of this Grammy Award-winning icon by taking audiences through a journey of her record-setting hits.

What did our critic think of TOSCA at Cape Town Opera?

Following a successful 40th anniversary season, The Firehall has announced the programming for its 2023-2024 season. Learn more about the upcoming shows here!

Discover the U.S. premiere of 'Sorting IT Out' by autistic Canadian playwright Matteo Esposito, presented by Play Readings With Friends Theater Company. Don't miss this moving theatrical experience running from August 3 to August 13 at The Sandbox Theater in New York City.

The 2022/23 Lyric Stage season concludes with Rooted by Deborah Zoe Laufer and directed by Courtney O'Connor.

The 13th Shakespeare Schools Festival South Africa (SSFSA) opens tonight (8 May 2023) at the Star Theatre at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town.

The 19th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival featuring twelve days of live and online events - both indoors and out - including music, stories, poetry, theatre, ceremony, films, dance, readings, forums, workshops, discussions, gallery exhibits, art talks, history talks and history walks.

PlayMakers Repertory Company proudly presents “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” a play by Pearl Cleage. The production runs from September 7 to September 25 and is directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton.

As Birmingham and the West Midlands get ready for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, the Birmingham 2022 Festival is hosting a series of performances, films and visual arts installations all inspired by sport. 

Blackfriars Theatre continues its 2021-2022 season (doing alternating repertory performances with Charlayne Woodard's 'Pretty Fire') with 'Silent Sky', an original play by Lauren Gunderson, who holds the unique accolade of being America's most produced living playwright. It's an inspiring show that touches on themes of gender and patriarchy on the surface, but if you dig a little deeper you'll also uncover explorations of space, time, human connection, and one's legacy.

The Firehall Arts Centre, in partnership with Vancouver Moving Theatre presents, as part of the 2021 DTES Heart of the City Festival, Openings: A Cultural Sharing from Wednesday,  November 3 to Saturday, November 6, 2021. 

As the Downtown Eastside community starts to emerge from the pandemic, the Festival is excited to reconnect with our over sixty community partners, including UBC Learning Exchange, Firehall Arts Centre, City Opera, KW Studios, and many more.

The Firehall Arts Centre and Vancouver Moving Theatre are thrilled to produce and present, as part of the 2020 DTES Heart of the City Festival, In the Beginning: A Cultural Sharing from Wednesday, November 4 to Saturday, November 7, 2020. 

The 17th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival will return this fall, Wednesday October 28 to Sunday November 8, 2020.

In addition to the previously announced Music in the Courtyard series, taking place weekends until September 27, the Firehall Arts Centre is moving forward with a reimagined Fall/Winter 2020 program. Ticket prices start at $20 and are available online or by phone at 604.689.0926.