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PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (PuSh) presents its 16th annual edition from January 21 to February 9, 2020 at various venues across the Lower Mainland.

Elections, mass demonstrations, climate change, impeachment scandals and perennial Vancouver favourite - 'affordable housing' - dominated the news headlines in 2019.

Voting is NOW OPEN and the first votes are in for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Vancouver Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! The nominees are set, and now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatres and performers are recognized!

Patrick Street Productions is presenting the musical adaptation of It's a Wonderful Life, which is transformed into a heavenly musical playing at the Anvil Centre Theatre through the holiday season from Dec 19 a?" Jan 5, 2020.

This holiday season, the Arts Club in Vancouver is playing THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Delicious pies, love stories, and music written by Sara Bareilles are just a few things of many that make the musical: WAITRESS, a must-see this season.

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (PuSh) presents the Western Canadian premiere of Montreal choreographer Dana Gingras' visually arresting new work, FRONTERA, for one-night only, January 30, 2020 at 8pm at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Voting is NOW OPEN for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Vancouver Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! The nominees are set, and now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatres and performers are recognized!

Where is the line? This is the central question of a trilogy of short plays to be workshopped at JBA Studios brand new Black Box Theatre (https://jebbeach.

Turning Point Ensemble (TPE) joins forces with the dynamic Bergmann Piano Duo (Marcel and Elizabeth Bergmann) for a concert of extraordinary music connecting French masterworks of the early twentieth century to jazz-inspired new works.

Early Music Vancouver (EMV) invites audiences to celebrate the festive season with the much-anticipated return of Handel's Messiah, on November 30, 2019 at 7:30pm at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

Join Vancouver TheatreSports (VTS) for seasonal mirth and merriment from Wednesday, November 20 to Tuesday, December 24, 2019 as the 'VTS Channel' presents Merry Kissmas a?" A Royal Romance.

This is the final week to submit nominations for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Vancouver Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Don't miss your chance to make sure your favorite Vancouver Theatres are represented!

On November 23, two integral members of the UBCP/ACTRA community will be honoured with distinguished lifetime achievement awards at the 8th annual UBCP/ACTRA awards show.

The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC presents the thought-provoking exhibition, Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary, on display from November 22, 2019 to March 29, 2020.

More than 500 visual artists will open their art studios, collaborative work spaces, garages, and homes a?" to engage with the public, showcase their remarkable work, and encourage fellowship a?" during the 23rd annual Eastside Culture Crawl, taking place across Vancouver's Eastside community from N

Fabulist Theatre states that their mission is to create paid opportunities for performers of all abilities, especially those from diverse and marginalized communities.

There's just two weeks left to submit nominations for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Vancouver Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2019.

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Staircase Theatre is proud to announce an exciting festival made of a collection of our favourite shows and artists from this year's Fringea?"from Vancouver, and beyond!

Produced by the Firehall Arts Centre along with Victoria's Puente Theatre, FADO a?" The Saddest Music in the World runs from Thursday, November 21 to Saturday, December 14, 2019.

Turning Point Ensemble (TPE) is excited to kick off its 2019/20 Season with a concert of musical innovators present and past, featuring Couloir, the harp and cello duo of Heidi Krutzen and Ariel Barnes.

Montreal's Productions Opéra Concept MP presents the Toronto premiere of Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera, inspired by the era-defining 1979 album The Wall, on stage November 13a?"14, 16a?"17, and 23, 2019 at Meridian Hall (formerly the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts).

Newly formed theatre company The Search Party presents its debut production, The Father, from Wednesday, November 20 to Saturday, November 30, 2019 at the Vancity Culture Lab at The Cultch.

The Umami Fund, an organization founded by actress and producer, Tamlyn Tomita (The Good Doctor) and David Blinkoff presents the international debut of Jeanne Sakata's critically-acclaimed play, HOLD THESE TRUTHS, starring The Man In The High Castle's Joel de la Fuente, at the Cultch Historic Theatr