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Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Photos: Half Moon Run heats up Snowy Vancouver

This week Half Moon Run played Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Many were unsure whether the Vancouver fans would brave the unusually cold and snowy conditions but I was pleasantly surprised to...

Lauryn Hill takes control of the Queen Elizabeth

Review and photography by Craig Fleisch

Photo Highlights: Alice Cooper plays Queen Elizabeth

Photography by Craig Fleisch

Bill Maher, not a Republican

On the eve on an election day here in Canada, it seemed quite fitting for Bill Maher, the American comedian and satirist, to speak in Vancouver. Maher is well known for his HBO political talk show "...

Ballet BC's No. 29 opens the 14/15 season with superb dancing

Truly outstanding artistic vision and dancing in the electric A.U.R.A., Choreography / Jacopo Godani,Dancers / Scott Fowler & Connor Gnam, Photo: Michael Slobodian
Don José (Richard Troxell) and Carmen (Kate Aldrich). Photo: Tim Matheson

Vancouver Opera's Carmen aims, fires, misses...then hits a bull’s eye

The Vancouver Opera roared to life Saturday night with enough treachery and dashed hopes to put Wall Street to shame. VOA’s Carmen tells the cautionary tale of love, jealousy, and excessive smoking.

West Side Story coming to Queen Elizabeth Theatre

The story of Maria and Tony, based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, returns to Vancouver at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on February 4, 2014. The smash hit Broadway revival tour of West Side Story...

After 25 Years, Les Mis still hits the mark

Peter Lockyear and Jason Forbach are standouts in their respective roles.

Mary Poppins delights with magical fun at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre

If you're running low on magic these days, Broadway across Canada's Mary Poppins can help. The show runs until Sunday July 22 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, where you can expect day-glow worlds...

Broadway Across Canada's Mary Poppins sprinkles magic on Vancouver this summer

The cast of Mary Poppins sing to the wonder of the word "supercalifrajilisticexpialidocious.