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Dates and Venue 3 – 16 February 2012, times of shows vary | Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St The energy of Almodovar. The risk-taking of Amenabar. The unadulterated exhilaration of Buñuel. Organized by Pragda, Aja Entertainment and VIFF, the Vancouver event is the last stop of the festival?s tour which has traveled across North America, from Ottawa to Miami. This year's selection is the biggest and riskiest yet, unveiling the next generation of Spanish film legends. Featuring first-time filmmakers and established masters alike, the very best in contemporary Spanish cinema comes to Vancouver. Join us for award-winning comedies, romances and dramatic masterpieces. Visit http://filmguide.viff.org Tickets Adults $11 ; Student, Senior & Members $9; Prem. Members $7 - Film Info-line: 604.683.3456 – Office: 604.685.0260
Dates and Venue 7 – 11 February 2012, 8pm | Historic Theatre, The Cultch, 1895 Venables Street Engaging with the push and pull of the group dynamic, while recognizing its interdependence, New Animal attempts to speak of otherness. Both playful and intimate, this work walks a tightrope between fleeting moments of control and radical shifts in dynamics. Tickets
from $16! On sale now through The Cultch’s Box Office at 604-251-1363
or tickets.thecultch.com
Date and Venue 7 February 2012, 7:30pm |Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St Once a month, Melanie
Friesen invites a distinguished guest to present his/her favourite film.
After the screening, audiences and guests have the opportunity to discuss
the film over drinks and snacks in our spacious lounge. Tickets
Adults $11 ; Student, Senior & Members $9; Prem. Members $7 - Film
Info-line: 604.683.3456 Office: 604.685.0260
Dates and Venue 8- 12 February 2012, 7.30pm (Sat at 8pm, matinee performances at 11am & 3.30pm on 11 Feb and 2pm on 12 Feb) | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the smash hit Broadway musical, is heading to Vancouver! Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film, this eye-popping spectacle has won the hearts of over 35 million people worldwide. Tickets vary in range depending on performance, seat location and date of purchase and start at $25.00 (Plus applicable charges). Visit ticketmaster.ca
Dates and Venue 8 February - 3 March 2012, 8pm, (2pm Weekend matinees & 1pm Wedmatinees) | Firehall Arts Centre Haunted by memories of his tumultuous love life, a Writer checks into New York's infamous Chelsea Hotel desperate to find the words and inspiration for his next song. Wading through past relationships, he reluctantly comes face to face with the love of the present, a love he wishes he could not just forget, but erase from existence. Tickets
Adults $12.50 matinee performances; $30 evening performances
- Firehall Box Office: 604.689.0926 Note: there is a $1 charge per ticket
for all order placed online.
Dates and Venue 8 - 26 February 2012, 8pm (Sunday matinees 2pm) l PAL Theatre The Marvelous Wonderettes offers a trip down memory lane where the audience is transported back to Springfield High School's 1958 Super Senior Prom. It is here we meet the Wonderettes; four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! Sporting memorable hairdos and personalities to match, the Wonderettes harmonize on 50's and 60's standards such as; Mr. Sandman, Lollipop, It's My Party and over 20 other classic hits. Tickets Preview $15.50, Regular $25.50, Valentine's Day:Treats for your Sweets! Dessert Buffet! $35.50 (plus s/c) ticketstonight.ca or (604) 684-2787 Group sales 604-880-1564
Dates and Venue 8 - 25 February 2012, 8pm | Studio 1398 (formally PTC), Granville Island You are going to fall in love with I Love you Because. This hilarious hit musical arrives on Granville Island just in time for the season of love! With a special Valentine's Day performance featuring roses for every woman attending and all the champagne you can drink, this show promises to make you laugh, make you cry, make you fall in love or fall in love all over again. One of the funniest off-Broadway shows of the last few years, it features an exciting and romantic script and score by the new writing team Of Ryan Cunningham & Joshua Salzman, Tickets $20-28 (not incl. HST) brownpapertickets.com
Dates and Venue 9 February – 10 March 2011 (Tues at 7:30pm, Wed–Sat at 8pm, and Wed & Sat at 2pm) | Granville Island Stage It’s 1905. New York City. 35-year-old Esther is an independent African-American woman who makes a good living sewing exquisite undergarments and corsets for brides-to-be. But she yearns to wear one of her own creations. When a mysterious stranger from the Caribbean strikes up a pen-pal relationship, the romance that blooms promises to fulfill all her dreams. Tickets $29 - $49, inclusive of all tax and fees. Call the Arts Club Box Office at 604.687.1644 or visit artsclub.com
Dates and Venue 9, 10, 11 February 2012 at7:30pm and 12 February at 2pm l Chan Centre In Czech with with English surtitles Rusalka is based on the original Slavic fairy tale of The Little Mermaid. The story was later adapted by Hans Christian Andersen and then by Walt Disney Studios into the 1989 film. Rusalka’s desperate longing to experience true love plunges her into an emotional storm heightened beautifully by majestic melodies, including the famously stunning aria, Song to the Moon. In the end, she must choose to make the ultimate sacrifice for love. Tickets
starting at $24 - available from Ticketmaster at 1-855-985-ARTS
or online at
ticketmaster.ca or in-person at the Chan Centre Box Office.
Special pricing for groups of ten or more, contact UBC Opera directly
at 604.822.6725
Dates and Venue 10 & 11 February 2012, 8pm + 14 February, 2pm | Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC Vancouver According to ancient Japanese legend, anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by the Gods. Based on the true story of Sasaki Sadako, One Thousand Cranes puts a human face to nuclear fallout. A young Japanese girl is diagnosed with leukemia nine years after Hiroshima. Determined to live, she folds origami cranes, which are a symbol of hope. Across the Pacific in Canada, a young boy believes that there’s nothing he can do to stop an inevitable nuclear war. Tickets $32, seniors $28, students $24- available by phone, in person or online - call 604.822.2678, or visit ubctheatre.universitytickets.com
Dates and Venue 11 & 13 February 2012 @ 8pm | Orpheum Theatre Conductor
Bramwell Tovey Featured performer Joyce Yang Joyce Yang has
grown into one of her generation's top pianists right before our very
eyes. She performs Rachmaninoff's wildly-popular Rhapsody on a Theme
of Paganini, and the orchestra plays a suite from Der Rosenkavalier
(the Knight of the Rose) and Ravel's intense, Romantic La Valse.
Dates and Venue 11 February 2012, 8pm | Ryerson United Church Conductor Jon Washburn, Featured performers Stephen Smith, piano, conductors from the National Conductors’ Symposium Culminating the 32nd annual National Conductors’ Symposium, the Vancouver Chamber Choir led by Jon Washburn and five Symposium conductors performs music from six famous “Musical Circles” - des Prez, Willaert, di Lasso; the Gabrielis and Schütz; the Scarlattis and Carissimi; Bach and his sons; the Haydns and Mozart; and the Schumanns and Brahms. Tickets
$24.50 - $28, Student rush tickets are $10 when doors open
one hour before the concert. Visit ticketmaster.ca
to purchase online or phone 1-855-985-2787
The Chutzpah! Festival 2012 line-up of music, theatre and dance includes: four extraordinary dance productions including Monger performed by L.A.’s Body Traffic and performances by Noords Nederlandse Dans from Holland; three brilliant theatre productions including Larry Blum’s Blink and You Might Miss Me at the River Rock Theatre, and; internationally-celebrated music, including Israeli artists Hadag Nahash at the Commodore, a brand new music–theatre production based on Joseph Skibell’s novel A Blessing on the Moon featuring Poland’s unique Warsaw Village Band at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre, plus much more. Tickets (Single price)Adults $26, JCC Members & Seniors $22, Students $16 - call 604.257.5145. Ticket prices subject to HST and nominal service charge. No refunds or exchanges
Dates and Venue 14 - 19, 21 - 25 February 2012, 8pm | Historic Theatre, The Cultch, 1895 Venables Street The Silicone Diaries is Nina Arsenault's tour de force account of her transition from an awkward man into a jaw dropping silicone bombshell, a process that spanned eight years, sixty surgical procedures and a lifetime of preparation. Blurring the lines between fake and real and playing with the tension between society’s presumed desire for authenticity and its demonstrated preference for the artificial, The Silicone Diaries provides us with a peek into the personal obsessions of those who are driven to transform their bodies. At the same time, it is a frank exploration of the contradictions associated with the quest for beauty. Tickets from $21 on sale now through The Cultch’s Box Office at 604-251-1363 or tickets.thecultch.com
Dates and Venue 15 - 18 February 2012, 8pm & 18 February 18, 2012, 2pm |North Shore Credit Union Centre for Performing Arts, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver (Capilano U.) In 1692, Salem, Massachusetts was an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believed unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief has poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft. Those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spiteand collective evil. It is relentlessly suspenseful, vastly moving and compels the audience to search their hearts and consciences in ways that only great theatre can. Tickets
$22, $14 and $8 – visit https://tickets.capilanou.ca/TheatreManager/1/login&event=693
or in person at the box office
Dates and Venue 16 – 18 February 2012, 8pm | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Choreographed by the legendary Alicia Alonso from the original work by Marius Petipa, and set to the music of Ludwig Minkus, these performances will stand as the ultimate memorial to David Y.H. Lui, Vancouver’s long-time impresario, who was working on this project when he passed away last September. Tickets
$47 to $97 (plus taxes and service charges) available at ticketmaster.ca,
call 1-855-985-2787 or cubaballet.ca
for details
In French with English surtitles This girl is trouble. Bad, beguiling, and dangerous to know, Carmen will never let herself be chained down by any one man. When she fixes on Don José as her next (but certainly not her last) lover, the naïve but volatile young soldier hasn't a chance. He follows her into a life of crime. Tragedy is inevitable, but what a ride along the way! Tickets $30 - $125; Seniors & Students discounts available in some sections. By phone at 250-385-0222 or online. Special youth pricing is available (phone orders only).
Dates and Venue - 18 February – 10 March 2012, 8pm | Playhouse Theatre Hunchback is a darkly romantic musical set amid the buttresses and shadows of Notre Dame Cathedral, it tells the tale of a tormented priest, a beautiful dancer and the deformed bell ringer, Quasimodo. Swept up in a vortex of lust, fear, and the desire to control a destiny that will ultimately destroy them all, they are consumed by love in its most potent, merciless and obsessive form. This surprising new take on Victor Hugo’s famous story comes from the multi-award-winning creators of Nevermore and Frankenstein. Tickets Singles from $45, reserve online at vancouverplayhouse.com, by calling the Playhouse Box Office at 604 873 3311, or in person at the theatre box office Monday - Friday, 10am-5pm
Dates and Venues 20 February – 4 March 2012 | Various venues in Yaletown and along Commercial Drive This vibrant festival provides a stage for the best of Aboriginal artists, established and emerging, featuring diverse and varied performances by local, national and international First Nations arts. Celebrating its 11th year with theatre pieces, live music, dance, slam poetry, storytelling and performance art, the artists of First Nations are truly in full voice! For further information visit fullcircle.ca Tickets $12 - $25, and Pay What You Can performances. available at ticketstonight or call 604-684-2787. For complete festival line up and information visit Talking Stick Festival
Dates and Venue 26 January - 26 February 2012, 8pm | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage When middle-aged Annie Clarke loses her husband to cancer, her best friend Chris suggests a—ahem—cheeky new way to raise money for research. But their fellow Women’s Institute members balk at baring—well, almost baring—it all! Gradually, though, these prim tea-and-crumpets ladies “of a certain age” come around and learn to delight in their newfound pluckiness and status as international sensations. Tickets $29 - $65, inclusive of all tax and fees. Call the Arts Club Box Office at 604.687.1644 or visit artsclub.com
Dates and Venue 2 – 26 February 2012, 8pm Tues - Sat (Matinees 3pm Sat & Sun, except February 4) | Studio 58, LangaraCollege,100 West 49th Avenue In Shakespeare's enthralling political thriller Julius Caesar, the Soothsayer warns Caesar as he returns from battle "Beware the Ides of March" and so begins the life-and-death struggle for control of Rome. The conspirators, fearful for the Republic, tormented by uncertainty and driven by questionable motives, plot his assassination. His brutal killing unleashes a tide of violence that drags thousands into a bloody civil war. Tickets $22, $18 & $17; previews and matinees $12. Visit ticketstonight.ca or 604.684.2787
Dates and Venue 21 January - 4 February 2012, Wed – Sat 8pm (Sat matinee 2.30pm) l Pacific Theatre In a rundown bar in the Bronx, two strangers meet at the end of their ropes in Pacific Theatre’s remount of Annunciation Pictures’ production of, featuring Lori Triolo and Aleks Paunovic, directed by filmmaker Jason Goode. Danny has an out of control temper and may have killed a man. Roberta is haunted by an even darker secret that overshadows any possibility joy. When these two hopeless lives collide they ruthlessly reveal themselves to one another, resulting in a brutal exposure that is as dark and frightening as it is hopeful and funny. Tickets $16.50 $29.50 HST not incl. - call 604.731.5518 or pacifictheatre.org
Dates and Venue 19 January - 11 February 2012, Mon at 8pm, Tues at 7:30pm, Wed –Sat at 8 pm ( matinees Wed & Sat at 2pm) | Revue Stage, 1601 Johnston Street, Granville Island Your personal ads, set to music! Irregular hats for cats, mounted lobsters, autographed copies of the Bible: this new work from composer Veda Hille and Bill Richardson explores what humanity has to offer and turns it into comic musical fare. Come and take a look at the vagaries and intimacies of the internet. Tickets $25 and $35, inclusive of taxes and fees. Call the Arts Club Box Office at 604.687.1644 or visit artsclub.com
Dates and Venue 20 January - 12 February 2012, 8pm | Jericho Arts Centre A brilliant concert violinist, who seemingly has it all, is forced to re-evaluate her life when struck down by unforeseen tragedy. Through a series of highly charged encounters, she is led to examine her deepest emotions and finally to consider a future without music. Tickets $16 - $20 available at the door. Preview on 19 January with all tickets $10. Talk back session: after the show on 26 January. Reservations and information: phone 604 224 8007, ext. 2 or visit unitedplayers
Dates and Venue 14 January - 4 February 2012, 8pm (Sat matinees 2pm) | Vancouver Playhouse Red introduces audiences to the compelling artist Mark Rothko and his young assistant, Ken. Set in his studio in the late 1950s, the play is a fictionalized account of one of Rothko’s historic artistic commissions: to create a series of murals for the new Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building in New York City. As he paints, Rothko begins to question the project he’s committed to and his role as an artist. Tickets Adults $41-$59; seniors $35-$55; students 25 and under $32 - rush seats $20 (Cash only, in person, one hour before curtain, subject to availability) Call 604 873 3311 or online vancouverplayhouse.com
Dates and Venues 10 Jan – 7 Feb 2012 | Various Venues in the Lower Mainland Starring Peter Anderson, with Sasa Brown, Michael Perron, Marco Soriano,Raphael Kepinski, Beatrice Zeilinger, Allan Zinyk. Director Wayne Specht. Original Director Roy Surette. Masks by Melody Anderson and set design by David Roberts Tickets & Info www.artsclub.com
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of New Spanish Cinema
The
Cultch 
Cinema
Salon with Red Robinson
NETworks
Firehall
Arts Centre
Hey
Look! It's a Co-op
Intimate
Theatre Productions 
Arts
Club Theatre Company 
UBC
Opera 
Bunkaza
Theatre Company 
Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra: Masterworks Silver Series
Vancouver
Chamber Choir 
Dates
and Venues 11 February – 4 March 2012 | Norman Rothstein
Theatre and other venues in Metro Vancouver
Buddies
in Bad Times Theatre 
EXIT22
Pacific
Opera
Vancouver
Playhouse Theatre Company and The Cultch 
full
circle first nations performance
Arts
Club Theatre Company
Studio
58
Pacific
Theatre
Arts
Club Theatre Company and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
United
Players Duet for
One by Tom Kempinski 
Vancouver
Playhouse Theatre Company in co-production with Canadian Stage and The
Citadel Theatre
In
collaboration with Axis Theatre Company