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NOVEMBER 2025 | VOLUME 257

NOV 3-16

We’re now in the busiest time of year for theatre. Festivals alone include the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, Transform, IndieFest and Chutzpah! The Arts Club will be running three shows simultaneously and touring a fourth. We’ve got musicals galore, lots of kids’ shows, impressive new work and returning best-sellers from the recent past. The panto season begins this year in mid-November. And many of the Christmas shows are still to come. There’s a great variety of things to see, including from more independent companies than in years. Give yourself a treat – see a play. And theatre tickets make the perfect seasonal gift for under the Xmas tree, the Chanukah bush or wherever. Elbows up! Support local culture!

Our On Now page will show you everything running through mid-November. Be sure to look for the BUY TICKETS buttons. And plot your theatregoing through December on our Coming Soon page.

Theatre lovers, theatre students, theatre historians and casual readers are invited to browse our ARCHIVES pages. Read 1000+ reviews of what you may have seen or missed over the past two decades of Vancouver-area theatre.

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Anna Chatterton, one of the Gertrude & Alice playwrights, leads an Embodied Playwriting Workshop for playwrights and theatre makers at the PAL Studio Theatre,Nov. 15, 10:30 am-12:30. Pay What-You-Choose. Book HERE.

North Van’s Presentation House Theatre presents Haunted Histories: An Evening with the Vancouver Paranormal Society, Nov. 22, 7:30 pm, a movie singalong with Mary Poppins, Dec. 13, 2 pm & 7 pm, and Bright: A Holiday Singalong Concert, Dec. 19-21, Dec. 19, 7:30 pm, Dec. 20-21, 2 pm & 7:30 pm. https://www.phtheatre.org/

Ruby Slippers Theatre invites playwrights and directors to submit their work or themselves for the 2026/27 Advance Theatre Festival. Submit play synopsis, brief bio and max. 15 pp. script except or director’s resume and cover letter to info@rubyslippers.ca by May 15.

The Cultch now has five restaurant partners on Commercial Drive. Visit any on the same day you see a Cultch performance and get 15% off your bill. They are Social, La Mezcalaria, Sing Sing Commercial, Caffè La Tana and Havana. And the Improv Centre has partnered with six Granville Island restaurants to get you 10-20% off your bill with a same-day Improv Centre ticket. https://theimprovcentre.ca/restaurant-partners/

The Improv Centre has a new Artistic Director. Long-time ensemble member Alan Pavlakovic takes over from Jalen Saip. Congrats to them both.

The company formerly known as Realwheels Theatre has changed its name to Glitch Theatre, and will introduce the new name with Alex K. Masse’s Faye’s Room this month. https://realwheels.ca/

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival has announced its 2026 season and is selling season’s packages. The mainstage shows are The Merry Wives of Windsor and Macbeth with Antigone and Goblin: Oedipus in the small tent. www.bardonthebeach.org

The Improv Centre is offering classes in improv at all levels. Info HERE.

Enjoy,

Jerry