Tom Wright News

In partnership with the Vancouver Public Library (VPL), Vancouver Opera announces Opera Adventures, a new program series that invites the public to get to know opera with a tantalizing taste of opera's history, its stories, and colourful possibilities.

Vancouver Opera is announcing a cast change to the opening production of its 2022-2023 season, Georges Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, in October.

Vancouver Opera have announced the opening of its 2022-2023 with a full-scale production of Georges Bizet's The Pearl Fishers in October.

Join Vancouver Opera for the inaugural Opera In The Park in beautiful Deer Lake Park located in Burnaby at 6450 Deer Lake Avenue. Presented in partnership with the City of Burnaby on Sunday July 17, this free family friendly event is an operatic journey through some of our pop culture movie favourites.

Vancouver Opera has announced the 2022-2023 season. Returning to the Vancouver Opera stage after 28 years is The Pearl Fishers in October. A company premiere alights the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with ethereal magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream in February. Concluding the season is the long-awaited return of a legend with Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.

Opera Speaks will return to Vancouver Opera on April 22nd. Join panelists in person for this free discussion themed around Creative Adaptation. This lively 90-minute dialogue centres on the nature of adaptation in support of the upcoming production of HMS Pinafore.

Vancouver Opera will conclude its 2021-2022 season with HMS Pinafore by acclaimed creative duo W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Four performances of the wildly popular opera will be performed at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Saturday April 30, Thursday May 5, and Saturday May 7 at 7:30 p.m. with a 2:00 p.m. matinee on Sunday May 8.

Kiln Theatre's Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham today announces new appointments to the theatre's core artistic team – Amit Sharma as Associate Director, Amy Trigg as the Peggy Ramsay Foundation / Film4 Awards Scheme Playwright, and Pip Terry as Kiln's new Resident Assistant Designer.

The 2022 Adelaide Festival officially opens today! With a whole host of events over the next 17 days, 2022 marks the 37th Adelaide Festival over 62 years, and the sixth festival under Artistic Directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy.

Today Kiln Theatre Artistic Director, Indhu Rubasingham, announces their Spring 2022 Creative Engagement performances will take place on stage in January and February. These readings are opportunities for the young people of North-West London to showcase the productions they have been writing, devising and rehearsing since September 2021.

Vancouver Opera has announced the next production in its 2021-2022 season, Cavalleria Rusticana in Concert. This beloved masterpiece delivers intense passion, memorable music and incredible arias and is a perfect Valentine's Day weekend activity for all classical music lovers.

The Belgrade Theatre has announced full casting for I Ain't Dumb, a brand new play from acclaimed playwright and former Belgrade Youth Theatre member Tom Wright. Produced by PlayWell Productions and Epicene, in association with the Belgrade Theatre, I Ain't Dumb premieres from Weds 9 – Sat 12 Feb in the B2 auditorium.

Vancouver Opera has announced conductor Jennifer Tung will be joining the creative team of Orfeo ed Euridice through a landmark national conducting fellowship.

Open relationships have provided great material for increasing numbers of LGBTQ+ writers over the last few years.

Vancouver Opera is returning to live performances at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for the 2021-2022 season. Opening the season is the Vancouver Opera premiere of the timeless love story Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck on December 4 and 5.

Starting today, November 1, New Yorkers will be able to access Governors Island’s open space, cultural programming, and recreational resources beyond its traditional May through October season for the first time.

The 2022 Adelaide Festival program encourages us all to return to live performance with joy and anticipation, and will gather together a community of artists from across Australia and the globe.

PlayWell Productions, Team Angelica and Epicene today announce the full cast for Very Special Guest Star which opens at Omnibus Theatre on 25 November, with previews from 23 November, and runs until 12 December.

Vancouver Opera has announced the return of live performances for the 2021-2022 season. Vancouver Opera will present two days of outdoor performances at the šxʷƛ̓exən Xwtl'a7shn (formerly QET Plaza) from September 18 and 19 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. followed by three extraordinary operas at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre starting in December.

Vancouver Opera is proud to welcome two new participants to the 2021-2022 Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program. Hillary Tufford and Amanda Testini will join returning artists Ian Cleary, Luka Kawabata, Amy Seulky Lee, and Jonelle Sills.