VANCOUVER THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 57

Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) injects a delightful dose of magical entertainment into summer with Mary Poppins & The Drowsy Chaperone, running July 7 - August 19, 2017 at Stanley Park's picturesque Malkin Bowl.

ACE Productions presents the Canadian premiere of End of the Rainbow.

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia (UBC) marks its 20th anniversary with a tremendous 2017/18 concert series, filled with unique collaborations, brand new productions, and much-adored favourites in the Chan Shun Concert Hall.

The Firehall Arts Centre will produce and present the world premiere of Circle Game: Reimagining the Music of Joni Mitchell from Saturday, April 29 to Saturday, May 20, 2017.

Artists in our Midst (AIOM) celebrates 25 years of open-door artistic explorations with the West of Main Art Walk, May 27 & 28, 2017.

An ensemble of Lower Mainland elementary and secondary students will give a free public concert, May 1, 10am at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Robson Square, as part of the 13th annual Music Monday, a cross-Canada event to raise awareness for music education.

This May, an award-winning soprano will sing to support chronic neuro-immune disease awareness.

The Green Wanderer is a lyrical fairy tale for young audiences full of warm humour, about friendship, tolerance, the need to have a dream, and the art of being different.

Staircase Theatre proudly presents the world premiere of Scott Button's The Hunger Room, a dark thriller that'll have audiences on the edge of their seats.

Arts Umbrella is proud to announce the 2017 Expressions Theatre Festival, an annual event celebrating the next generation of gifted young artists from the organization's Pre-Professional Theatre Program, running May 18 to 27, 2017, at Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island.

 Pacific Theatre presents Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley, a quirky story of love and some kind of happiness.

The JUNO Awards are heading out west as The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced today that Vancouver will host the 2018 JUNO Awards and the weeklong JUNO Week celebrations (March 19-March 25, 2018).

Patrick Street Productions will present A Little Night Music, with Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and Book by Hugh Wheeler.

Home is a new and original Canadian production that shares a powerful vision of hope from local diverse youth in the search for a healthy home, both within oneself and one's community.

The Firehall Arts Centre will produce and present the world premiere of Circle Game: Reimagining the Music of Joni Mitchell from Saturday, April 29 to Saturday, May 20, 2017.

Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA will go on sale Saturday, April 1 at 10am for the premiere Vancouver engagement at The Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

ACE Productions presents the Canadian premiere of End of the Rainbow.

 Pi Theatre presents a refreshed remount of Peter Dickinson's otherworldly and resonant Long Division, April 26 - 30, 2017 at the Annex Theatre (823 Seymour Street).

Hardline Productions presents Raes Calvert and Sean Harris Oliver's historical drama REDPATCH, April 12 - 16, 2017 at Studio 16.

Gripping, eye-opening and heart-wrenching.

Preeminent percussionist Sal Ferreras presents the 31st annual Drum Heat, a concert uniting BC's top jazz & world music talent to benefit Arts Umbrella students, Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 8pm at the Vogue Theatre.

The Or Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring the work of Ann Lislegaard (Copenhagen/New York) and Neil Wedman (Vancouver).

Following their Canadian premiere at Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) in 2015, Japan-based ensemble, Dairakudakan, returns with their newest work - Paradise - on March 10 & 11, 2017 at 8pm at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Royal City Musical Theatre will bring the Massey stage alive with the Tony Award winning, big tap-dancing musical, Anything Goes.

It is two generations into the future.