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Theatre Review: Dark comedy brings the audience Inside

In his highly ambitious new play, Inside, Daniel MacIvor seems to leave no capital-letter subject untouched. It's all there: sex, death, love, religion, politics, justice, morality.

 
 
 
 

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Inside a playwright's mind

Daniel MacIvor's new play is premièring at UVic and the stars of the production are the drama students


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Please keep your cellphones on

ON STAGE -- What: Carmen and Other Works by Ballet Victoria


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Spellbinding visions

ON STAGE -- What: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre


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Theatre Review: When an eccentric old gal came to stay

Sylvia Rhodes shines in play based on a true story from England


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Playwright uses poet's fascination with marbles as inspiration for Influence

Seeing the newly installed Elgin Marbles inspired John Keats to write such poems as Ode on a Grecian Urn and On Seeing the Elgin Marbles.


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Couple's shop talk stops at the Malahat

Keith Digby and Cynthia Pronick's signal to stop talking shop? It's the "Malahat Summit" sign on the drive home.


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Review: 1970s Shakespeare comedy sparkles

Looking for a way to combat those chilly winter blues? A charming interpretation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night set in the groovy 1970s may be the ticket.


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A swami visits Twelfth Night

Shakespeare comedy takes on Beatles flavour at UVic


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Luc Robert,  playing Rodolfo, and Alexander Dobson, who plays Marcello, take part  in a rehearsal for Pacific Opera Victoria's production of La bohème.  It opens tonight at the Royal Theatre, with Gerard Powers replacing  an ailing Robert in the role of Rodolfo.

La bohème still packing them in

What: Pacific Opera Victoria: La bohème, by Giacomo Puccini


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Rescheduling in works for cancelled Belfry play

The Belfry Theatre cancelled Wednesday night's performance of Cryptogram due to heavy snowfall.


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Book of erotic poetry inspires performance

Victoria audiences will be treated to the sight of dancers moving "with supple, risky grace" this weekend as the Toronto Dance Theatre presents Pteros Tactics: The Instant of Desire, says Christopher House, artistic director for the troupe.


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Poetry to launch cultural marketplace

PREVIEW -- What: Open House at the Well


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