Arts Features

Morris Panych and James Rolfe tailor a new Overcoat for Vancouver Opera Festival

The team of librettist and composer find the music in a hit play.

Art! Vancouver offers a slew of visual delights

We’ve highlighted two exhibitors to look for, plus an off-site event that gets the local art scene in on the action.

Vancouver Opera's Jonathan Darlington prepares to step into emeritus role

The long-time music director of the company reflects on his career, the West Coast, and the Russian beauty that runs through Eugene Onegin.

Chopin virtuoso Rafal Blechacz sets sights on new Steinway

His win at the 2005 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw was so impressive that the judges awarded no second prize.

Third Coast Percussion wields mountains of metal for Vancouver New Music

The Chicago-based quartet’s musical arsenal keeps growing.

British painter Petra Giffard captures her West Coast move at Art! Vancouver

The artist describes her "Vancouver Series" as "a physical and emotional response to arriving here".

Jovanni Sy's noir play Nine Dragons brings new depth to detective story

You could say the Gateway Theatre artistic director has created the anti–Charlie Chan.

Relationship between straight men needs Explanation

The two males in the play form a warmer and warmer bond, meeting at the downtown library one day, later going for coffee, and eventually heading out to a club on Davie Street.

Dorrance Dance turns tap on its head in Myelination

The result is a piece that pushes the form not just physically, but creatively and conceptually.

Nicole Lizée unpacks her Prairie past with Music on Main

The musician’s hectic sonic structures did not spring out of some unconscious need to fill her home terrain’s empty landscape.

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Arts Features

Morris Panych and James Rolfe tailor a new Overcoat for Vancouver Opera Festival

Art! Vancouver offers a slew of visual delights

Vancouver Opera's Jonathan Darlington prepares to step into emeritus role

Chopin virtuoso Rafal Blechacz sets sights on new Steinway

Third Coast Percussion wields mountains of metal for Vancouver New Music

British painter Petra Giffard captures her West Coast move at Art! Vancouver

Jovanni Sy's noir play Nine Dragons brings new depth to detective story

Relationship between straight men needs Explanation

Dorrance Dance turns tap on its head in Myelination

Nicole Lizée unpacks her Prairie past with Music on Main

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