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Lincoln Kaye

Lincoln Kaye is Vancouver Observer's Senior Correspondent for Culture and
Features. In half a century of reporting, he has served as a magazine correspondent in Asia, a food and travel writer, a music, film and theatre critic and a forest fire lookout.

Heteronymous harmonies

Elias Quartet treats FOCM to Schumann, Schubert, Beamish and Scotticisms

"(After Chekhov)" - a hard act to follow

Parmar transplants "Orchard" to 1970's Okanagan Sikh ranch on Arts Club's Stanley stage

Heart and ginger, returning to the root

Taiwan's Tjimur Theatre offers Van International Dance Fest workshop for local indigenous artists

Going steady, 1340's-style

Blue Heron medievalists regale EMV with Machaut's courtly love notes

Learning the ropes at Massey Theatre

The sets are the stars in "A Vista," by Fight with a Stick Performance

"Gross Misconduct' -- ravenning

Brutal Speakeasy production adds up to less than the sum of its many brilliant parts

Ariel: 'brave spirit[s]'

Youthful - but polished - quartet pinch-hits for Chamber Music Friends

Homunculi

Icelandic Puppeteer Laureate Bernd Ogrodnik's marionette magic @ Surrey City Hall

Earthly Delights: Other-Worldly

Compagnie Marie Chouinard unfolds Hieronymus Bosch triptych for DΛNCE H⌂USE

Red on red at Vimy Ridge

As we’ve all learned in civics class (or, in my case, citizenship test-prep), the World War I Battle of Vimy Ridge still stands as the pinnacle of our country’s military glory. So doughty were the...