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JANUARY 2026 | VOLUME 259

Dec 29-JAN 11

Vancouverplays wishes you a very Happy New Year!

Well, 2025. It was a pretty decent year theatre-wise, a pretty awful year otherwise. It’s hard to predict anything, but you can be sure we’ll get more lies, outrage and neo-fascist propaganda from that cesspit down below the border in 2026. So let’s all resolve to be our best Canadian selves: tough, honest, caring, generous, clear-eyed. Love your family and friends and let them know you do. Support Canadian culture, local culture, theatre culture. Have a happy, healthy, peaceful, creative, prosperous new year.

Our On Now page will show you everything running through early January. Be sure to look for the BUY TICKETS buttons. And plot your theatregoing through mid-February 2026 on our Coming Soon page.

Theatre lovers, theatre students, theatre historians and casual readers are invited to browse our ARCHIVES pages. Read 1100+ reviews of what you may have seen or missed over the past two decades of Vancouver-area theatre.

Important Note: The BUY TICKETS Button on our PREVIEW and REVIEW pages is strictly a convenience for theatregoers. Click on the button and get direct access to the company’s box office for that show. Vancouverplays gets no cut or commission from your ticket purchase. 100% of the money goes directly to the theatre company.

Eighth & Eight in New Westminster presents its next episode of Reading Theatre led by Allan Morgan. How I Learned to Drive, Jan. 14. Readings atPlaskett Gallery, 2 pm. Show up by 1:45 if you’d like to be a reader. https://www.eighthandeight.com/event/reading-theatre-jan-14/

North Van’s Presentation House Theatre presents Celebrating Black History – Honouring Heritage, Inspiring the Future, a fundraiser. Jan. 15, 6:30 pm. Tickets & info HERE.

Ruby Slippers Theatre presents an Online Panel Discussion: Bicultural Identity & Belonging, in association with S.U.C.C.E.S.S., MOSAIC, Pancouver, Asian Canadian Special Events Association, and rice & beans theatre. With support from Canadian Heritage. Jan. 19, 7 pm. Register HERE.

Ruby Slippers Theatre invites playwrights and directors to apply 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: Social, Sing Sing Commercial, La Mezcalaria, Caffè La Tana and Havana. 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 Firehall’s 15% off partner is Cuchillo on Powell St.

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

Perry Ehrlich’s Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! musical theatre program is accepting applications for next summer, July 7-30 and Aug. 4-27, M-F 9:00-4:00. Info and applications here: https://theimpresario.ca/gotta-sing-gotta-dance/

Enjoy the holidays,

Jerry