There’s a story behind every song—and song by song, Motown built an empire of hits that changed the world.

Broadway Across Canada’s Tina: The Tina Turner Musical has stormed into Vancouver with every ounce of electrifying energy, confidence, and sexiness you would expect from a jukebox bio musical about the music icon.

Children of God, a musical written and directed by Mattagami First Nation artist Corey Payette, is a haunting account of life in the Indigenous residential school system. While the show premiered in 2017, its subject matter hits harder today, in the wake of the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools across Canada. The importance of the story cannot be overstated, and Payette has channeled it through a remarkably poetic theatrical work—a stunning artistic accomplishment. 

Sometimes it feels so good to be bad. That’s why Metro Theatre’s production of Sinners hits in all the right ways.

Forget about saying “Beetlejuice” three times: Broadway Across Canada’s Beetlejuice the Musical is so much fun, you may actually want to see it three times.

Gateway Theatre’s production of the beloved musical Oliver! has arrived just in time for the holidays. Based on Charles Dickens’s timeless Oliver Twist, the musical telling evokes many of the same poignant messages as the same author’s A Christmas Carol, set against a similar backdrop of poverty and class struggle in Victorian England.

One endearing holiday tradition in the Vancouver stage scene is Metro Theatre’s British pantomime. This year, the company takes on Cinderella, and it sparkles with all the humour, energy, and fun that audiences have come to love from the annual show.

The word “bound” can be used in a couple of different ways. It could refer to being restricted to something, or else en route to a destination. Bound! The Musical (In Concert) examines how a group of people in the fictional town of Middleburg experience both uses of the word in the unusual aftermath of an election.