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Celebrate Culture Days!
Culture Days is back for its third installment, showcasing Canadian artists from coast-to-coast September 28 to 30! As part of this popular nationwide initiative, the Arts Club is offering a free...
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Winners and Losers and Love Explored
This February, we premiere Marcus Youssef’s latest work How Has My Love Affected You?, but tomorrow night you have a chance for a sneak peek! In partnership with Word on the Street Vancouver, Marcus...
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Seeking Vancouver’s next top writers!
Know any young budding writers? If so, invite them to apply to the Arts Club’s free LEAP Playwriting Intensive for young playwrights! LEAP students explore how playwriting can be just the ticket to...
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Experience theatre in the making
Ever wonder how plays make the transition from the page to the stage? Our fall reading series ReACT: New Plays in Progress will show you just that. The series provides a vital platform for playwrights...
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We have a winner (or two)!
Jenn Griffin and Yvette Nolan. Photo by David Cooper. Thank you very much for entering our contest for The Unplugging. Congratulations to our two winners: Claudia and Sheryl! Sheryl: A lighter (or...
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Heldover! One week added to The Santaland Diaries!
Ryan Beil. Photo by Tim Matheson. We are thrilled to announce a one-week holdover of our holiday treat for adults, The Santaland Diaries. Ryan Beil’s performance in this merrily wicked tale from...
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PGC awards 2012 Bra D’Or to Rachel Ditor
PGC Women's Caucus Chair Sally Stubbs, playwright Michele Riml, Rachel Ditor, and playwright Lucia Frangione Last month, we were thrilled when our Literary Manager and resident dramaturg Rachel Ditor...
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Introducing… How Has My Love Affected You?
A family memoir. Marcus Youssef has a “difficult” relationship with his mother, Roleene. When the playwright discovers a storage locker full of her journals, he begins to delve into her history—and his...
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Music and a family memoir
The family memoir How Has My Love Affected You? stars Marcus Youssef, who delves into his mother Roleene‘s history through her numerous journals, along with his son Zak Youssef. Director Rachel Ditor...
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LEAP readings announced
Four secret agents investigate clues that lead them to a rediscovery of their own childhoods. Eccentric competitors battle it out at an all-girl spelling bee. A young woman struggles with fragments of...
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Guest post: Shawn Macdonald, LEAP Playwriting Intensive
With the application deadline fast approaching, I’m excited to be heading into another year leading this exciting, dynamic and unique playwriting program for teenagers and young adults. It’s been so...
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4 nights, 15 new plays by young playwrights
Join us this month for our Youth Playwriting Intensive reading series, AKA our LEAP Festival 2014! Sit back and enjoy 15 new works on diverse themes across three evenings, closing with an awards...
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Hurrah LEAP Festival!
Actor, playwright, and LEAP project leader Shawn Macdonald The lead-up to the LEAP Festival was a bit of a mad dash for its Class of 2014. Under project leader Shawn Macdonald’s watch, LEAP’s 15 young...
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From the page to our stage
Right now, a talented group of local playwrights are busy preparing final drafts of scripts for three musicals and three plays, and they need your help! We’d like to invite you to get involved in the...
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Be Part of Something New
We’re proud of our reputation for presenting tried-and-tested Broadway musicals, but we also have a fine legacy of developing new musicals that have enjoyed critical success with runs on our stages and...
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Welcoming our new Artist-In-Residence, Veda Hille!
“New” is somewhat of a misnomer, as Veda is a long-time friend and collaborator of the Arts Club. But now, we are delighted to announce that she has been awarded a Canada Council grant to officially...
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Introducing…SISTER JUDY
The world of Sister Judy (Jenny Wasko-Paterson), a popular university theology professor, is rocked when a brilliant new student (Lili Beaudoin) challenges her notions of love and devotion. What is...
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Playwriting takes both love and devotion
Silver Commission playwright, Shawn Macdonald Our new production, Sister Judy is a labour of love, not only for the playwright Shawn Macdonald, but also for all of us here at the Arts Club. It’s the...
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Guest Post: Shawn MacDonald, Program Director of the LEAP Playwriting Intensive
Shawn MacDonald, Program Director of the LEAP Playwriting Intensive. Photo by Mark Halliday I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about LEAP (Learn Early About Playwriting), a program that has...
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