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08/21/2026

Jealousy, betrayal, and revenge drive this passionate tale of love and deception, featuring soaring melodies, poignant drama, and the iconic aria “Vesti la giubba.” Following the stunning success of La Tragédie de Carmen last summer, Nebula Performances Society presents its second fully staged opera under The Chee Series: I Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo.

Experience this unforgettable masterpiece in Nebula’s intimate theatre, where every seat puts you right at the heart of the action, August 26 to September 5.

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08/21/2026

Majid Tafreshi’s play, a co-presentation with Vancouver Civic Theatres, intertwines Nezami Ganjavi’s 12th-century poetry with the lives of contemporary theatre actors.

Majid Tafreshi’s play intertwines Nezami Ganjavi’s 12th-century poetry with the lives of contemporary theatre actors

08/21/2026

By lantern light, Alex Mah goes looking for home. birdcage, his new interdisciplinary meditation on identity and migration, opens at EDAM from September 3 to 5, kicking off Pi Theatre’s 2026–27 season.

birdcage explores the hope, longing, and confusion of Mah’s mixed-race, immigrant identity through an introspective multimedia performance. Combining poetry, new music, lanterns, soundscape, and improvisational performance techniques, Mah’s latest piece is sure to provoke contemplation.

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Meditative piece is a collaboration between interdisciplinary artist Alex Mah and violinist Ilana Waniuk

08/20/2026

To Love Or Not To Love is an original absurd play-within-a-half-musical inspired by Nezami Ganjavi’s timeless Romantic Epic Khosrow and Shirin. Set inside a contemporary rehearsal room, the play follows a group of actors attempting to stage the ancient love story, only to find their own relationships, desires, and unresolved pasts gradually intertwining with the story they are performing.

Can love truly save us—or is it simply another beautiful pain we continue to rehearse?

August 27–30, 2026
The Annex Theatre, Vancouver

Book your tickets online: www.showpass.com/to-love-or-not-to-love/

Presented by TAFF ART Society and VIVA Alliance, with original music and music direction by Madmazel.

08/20/2026

Guitarist Cole Schmidt performs at Kokoro Dance's jazz-driven music-and-dance series, reborn after the June passing of Tony Wilson.

Guitarist Cole Schmidt performs at a jazz-driven music-and-dance series reborn after the June passing of Tony Wilson

08/20/2026

Metro Theatre opens its 64th season with Avenue Q, the irreverent musical comedy about adulthood, relationships, and the uncomfortable realization that nobody has it all figured out. Directed by Christopher King from September 18 to October 10, this bold, memorable production brings together humans and puppets.

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Christopher King directs the Tony Award–winning musical comedy about a college grad finding his way in the world

08/19/2026

A season opener with rice & beans theatre, a new dance work by Kirsten Wicklund and Peter Smida, the world premiere of a musical, and Kevin Loring's Where the Blood Mixes: Firehall Arts Centre has just unveiled its 2025-26 season.

A new dance work by Kirsten Wicklund and Peter Smida, the world premiere of a musical, and more round out the lineup

08/19/2026

For 2026–27, Elektra will premiere new commissions by Canadian composers Suba Sankaran and Alex Eddington, as well as revisiting works from its inaugural year.

For 2026–27, the choir will premiere new commissions by Canadian composers Suba Sankaran and Alex Eddington, as well as revisiting works from its inaugural year

08/19/2026

French-Senegalese singer-songwriter anaiis is making her Canadian debut at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on September 16 at 7:30 pm. With her gentle, powerful music, she explores transformation, connection, and the possibilities that emerge from embracing change with grace.

anaiis’s latest release, Devotion & The Black Divine, was named one of the top albums of the year by both BBC and Apple Music. Recorded live-to-tape in London, the work is deeply influenced by anaiis’s new experience as a mother, as she explores what it means to be unabashedly human. The album is a meditation on the natural world, inner selves, and recognizing people’s innate divinity.

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Toulouse-born artist’s latest album draws on her new experience as a mother

08/18/2026

“You can do a deep dive and a slow read or you can kind of just dip in, dip out," curator Elliott Ramsey says of Parallelogram, The Polygon Gallery's new digital exhibition portal.

The inaugural offering, Volume 1: Interior Infinite Revisited, is a look back at a pandemic-era show that explored costume, transformation, and fluid identity