Arts

The Sylvia Platters/Stephen Carl O’Shea Shadow Steps (CIVL Radio) 4/5 Vancouver’s The Sylvia Platters and Stephen Carl O’Shea (from You Say Party) are both on the new split 12” LP, Shadow Steps. Side A starts with The Sylvia Platters’ “Morning Ritual,” a short indie song influenced by ’90s rock but with a late-’70s sound. It […]

Domanique Grant Playhouse (Independent) 4/5 Toronto-based singer/songwriter Domanique Grant’s new EP, Playhouse, features six songs, each with its very own character. Playhouse’s first song and single, “Investment,” impresses with its blend of strong pop beats with some indie melody. This song could make audiences sway (and so could its video). But if the first song […]

What comes to mind when you think of walking through a metal detector, emptying out your pockets, and removing all loose items—including shoes—to be searched and scoured? No, you’re not in the airport preparing for a flight; you’re spending the evening at the theatre. In this case, the play is The Crossroads: A Prison Cabaret, […]

Until Sunday, November 4 One-man show about WWI Blue Bridge Theatre is presenting Billy Bishop Goes to War, a one-man show that combines music and theatre as one actor plays flying ace Billy Bishop and the 17 characters Bishop impersonates. Tickets range in price from $18 to $47 and can be purchased at bluebridgetheatre.ca.  Wednesday, […]

From opening for the Rolling Stones in Marseille to embarking on a cross-country Canadian tour, Ontario rockers The Glorious Sons are riding a thundering wave of success. Given such explosive popularity, it’s reasonable to assume their lives have changed dramatically, but vocalist/guitarist Brett Emmons says he’s focusing on staying grounded through it all. “I would […]

For Ballet Victoria (BV) artistic and executive director Paul Destrooper, opening BV’s season with an original interpretation of Frankenstein was a no-brainer.  “This is the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s novel,” Destrooper explains. “And I think it’s kind of fun that, also, she was the first female writer to start a whole genre with essentially […]

For actress and playwright Nicolle Nattrass, the journey to motherhood was not a simple one. “It was quite a journey,” says Nattrass, “because I always said if I don’t have a child by the time that I’m 40 then that’s okay, because I had lots of kids in my life. You know, ‘happy auntie,’ and […]

Until Saturday, October 27 Get your creep on! The only thing creepier than classic horror movies is classic horror movies in a historical castle. Craigdarroch Castle is launching Classics at Craigdarroch Movie Series on Thursday and Saturday nights at 6 pm throughout October. The movie list includes Dracula, Frankenstein, House on Haunted Hill, and more. […]

Social justice meets opera with Pacific Opera Victoria (POV)’s contemporary production of Beethoven’s Fidelio, which may just challenge your perceptions of the human condition. Bogotá-raised multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Monica Hernandez has joined with director Wim Trompert and designer Nancy Bryant to create an on-set memorial to resistance and freedom fighters that is “extraordinarily expressive,” […]

Since he was a little kid—stumbling over his dad’s old college guitar in the basement and teaching himself to play it with Bob Dylan songbooks—music has played a vital role in Toronto singer/songwriter Ben Kunder’s life.  “We always had music in the house; we had a pretty expansive record collection, and [my dad] always took […]