Things To Do: 7 can't-miss Vancouver arts events this week, September 21 to 27

by The Georgia Straight Staff on September 21st, 2016 at 2:40 PM

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Editor’s choice

Angels in America

Hard to believe that this year marks the 25th anniversary of Angels in America, Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize–winning, truly epic play about the 1980s AIDS crisis. Studio 58 is marking the occasion by staging the ambitious, sometimes wildly surreal production’s Part One: Millennium Approaches as its season opener, and we’re looking forward to this helming by two theatre-community stars: director Rachel Peake and set designer Drew Facey. Subtitled A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, the play still packs a considerable punch; even with our distance from Reagan’s America, these are themes of life, death, and injustice that speak to, well, the millennia.

Studio 58 presents Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches from next Thursday (September 29) to October 16

Guest pick

Vancouver Fringe Festival picks announced

The Vancouver Fringe Festival has announced its Public Market Pick of the Fringe winners—hit shows you’ll get one more chance to see between Wednesday and Sunday (September 21 through 25). The holdovers—chosen based on their popularity with audiences and critical acclaim—hit a new venue on Granville Island this year: Performance Works. Shows include Charlatan!, And Bella Sang With Us, The After After Party (pictured above, which also snagged a coveted Georgia Straight Critic’s Choice Award), Curious Contagious, Sink or Swim, and Carry On: A Musical. Also on the bill are shows that didn’t make it to this year’s Fringe, along with favourites from past years: One Woman Sex and the City: A Parody of Love, Friendships and Shoes, Peter Vs Chris, The New Conformity, and God Is a Scottish Drag Queen IV.