Arts Club Theatre's 50th anniversary season boasts local premieres and Broadway hits

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      A noir Vancouver tale by Stan Douglas and Chris Haddock, a sexy Broadway musical that topped 2012 best-of-the-year lists, and a Fringe hit from Toronto's Soulepper Theatre Company round out a diverse and often cheeky 50th anniversary season for the Arts Club Theatre Company.

      The Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre kicks off in September with Jon Robin Baitz's ice-pick-sharp family comedy Other Desert Cities, followed by the family-friendly musical Mary Poppins (November 13 to January 5), Neil Simon's The Odd Couple (January 29 to February 23, 2014), and the world premiere of Helen Lawrence, the mixed-media new production about 1948 Vancouver by Douglas and Haddock (March 19 to April 13, 2014). Monty Python's Spam-a-Lot wraps the season from May 14 to June 29, 2014.

      The Granville Island Stage launches its season in high style with Venus in Fur, David Ives's kinky, Tony-winning comedy about a young actress drawn into an erotically bent audition, and a show the New York Times called "seriously smart and very sexy" (October 9 to November 2). Next up is a remount of Nicola Cavendish's It's Snowing on Saltspring (December 4 to 28), then Driving Miss Daisy (February 19 to March 15, 2014), and then Soulpepper's quickie-mart-set KIm's Convenience (April 30 to May 24, 2014), with the '50s musical Red Rock Diner concluding the program (June 25 to August 2, 2014).

      The smaller Revue Stage opens with the premiere of Colleen Murphy's Armstrong's War, about a 12-year-old boy who comes to know a soldier injured in Afghanistan (October 23 to November 9). Next up is the return of David Sedaris's biting holiday comedy The Santaland Diaries (November 27 to December 21), with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival coproduction A Brimful of Asha , about arranged marriage kicking off the new year (January 22 to February 8, 2014). And Twenty Something Theatre and Temporary Thing's hit of last year, The Bomb-Itty of Errors (a warped riff on Comedy of Errors) gets the Arts Club treatment from April 16 to May 10, 2014.

      Season tickets are on sale now at 604-687-1644 or artsclub.com/.

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      Hazlit

      Apr 6, 2013 at 7:14am

      HA, ha, ha. Note how many of these are crowd-pleasing comedies. Populist fluff. How about some Ibsen instead?

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