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V ancouver Opera's Norma debuts at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Saturday. It's fair to say that in 1963, Vancouver was an operatic backwater. That changed when Vancouver Opera staged what is still considered a legendary production of Norma . Artistic ...

From MARSHA LEDERMAN, Globe and Mail,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: British National Party,  Joan Sutherland

Artists fight budget's wrecking ball

I f ever there was a time for British Columbia's artistic community to take a metaphorical wrecking ball to the powers-that-be, this is it. Tonight in Vancouver, expect outrage. And for the provincial government to be the prime target. The Wrecking Ball ...

From MARSHA LEDERMAN, Globe and Mail,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Daniel MacIvor,  Kevin Krueger

YOUR GUIDE TO THE WEEK'S ENTERTAINMENT

A RCHITECTURE Journey to the East: Arthur Erickson and Japan Toronto-educated architect and architectural historian Michelangelo Sabatino spent this past summer retracing Arthur Erickson's first journey to Japan in 1961, revisiting the sites the iconic ...

From MARSHA LEDERMAN, Globe and Mail,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ezra Levant,  New York Philharmonic,  Bill Reid

Searching the stage for a solution

A fter homelessness ... isn't your typical theatre experience. Six cast members - all of whom were once homeless - spent three weeks working with a director to create a play examining what happens to homeless people once they get off the street (and it ...

From MARSHA LEDERMAN, Globe and Mail,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Halifax Corp

Twilight filming set to go south

V ancouver may be moving out of the Twilight zone – and not by choice. The city has served as the location for two films in the wildly popular Twilight series, including The Twilight Saga: New Moon , which opens in theatres Thursday, and the third ...

From MARSHA LEDERMAN, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephenie Meyer,  Robert Pattinson,  Harrison Ford

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg's smart solo show

G oggles At The Cultch in Vancouver on Tuesday Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg burst onto the stage at the newly renovated Cultch as a little boy named Norman, and for an hour led the audience on an adventure of the imagination that was as unforgettable as it ...

From MARSHA LEDERMAN, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tara (actor)

Vancouver's artistic side

Y ou've done the Stanley Park Seawall, watched the sunset over English Bay, shopped on Robson Street. But have you seen the real Vancouver? Vancouverites who can't afford to drop $1-million on a cozy fixer-upper generally end up in East Vancouver – away ...

From MARSHA LEDERMAN, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Louvre,  David Robinson,  Carl Jung,  Starbucks Corp

A piece of Twilight for sale

W hen The Twilight Saga: New Moon is released in theatres this week, pay special attention to the Cullen house. Like it? A lot? It can be yours. The 5,117-square-foot, five-bedroom, four-bathroom Arthur Erickson stunner in West Vancouver's prestigious ...

From MARSHA LEDERMAN, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

SHOW TIME

R EFIT FOR A QUEEN Since the Queen herself opened Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre in 1959, everyone, it seems, has been a critic: audiences complained about the sightlines, the acoustics, the legroom; women complained about the washrooms as lineups ...

From MARSHA LEDERMAN, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: British National Party,  Wolf Blitzer

Seana McKenna enters Joan Didion's shocking territory

An actor has to go to a very dark place to prepare for her role in The Year of Magical Thinking . The one-woman play, based on the searing memoir by the writer Joan Didion, examines a woman's shock and grief following the deaths of her husband and her ...

From MARSHA LEDERMAN, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Joan Didion,  Seana McKenna,  John Gregory Dunne,  Vanessa Redgrave

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