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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.

Dark Fringe: "The Nether" at Firehall

Notes from the Virtual Underground

Bliss in b-minor

Latin Mass at Chan Centre capstones EMV's inaugural BachFest

EMV’s first ever BachFest opens with jazz take on Goldbergs

Framed by Bach’s opening and closing arias, he turns in crisply impeccable renderings of all 30 canonical variations.

Brio from Rio boosts Dance House street cred

Companhia Urbana de Dança at Vancouver Playhouse

Invisible handyman held hostage at Cultch

Pulitzer-prizewinner Ayad Akhtar fuses "The Big Short" with "Invitation to a Beheading"

"House of Dreams" puts the "chamber" back in chamber music

Tafelmusik plays baroque masterworks in virtual reality mock-ups of their original settings
Foutrement by Virginie Brunelle at VIDF

Sex and Symbolism at Vancouver International Dance Fest

Erotica: Gallic, Dravidian and arboreal -- different strokes for different folks

Chutzpah indeed: Itai Erdal's "A Very Narrow Bridge" spans very troubled waters

A wry and moving confessional on travails of Israeli expatriation
CATS at Jericho Theatre

Fighting Chance Productions herds CATS at Jericho Theatre

Fitting a mega-musical into a compact black box theatre