Hive: the New Bees 3 is the third instalment of a performance series that began in 2009 at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. Inspired by the popular “HIVE” series produced by the Progress Lab, the event was originally created to foster newpartnerships between emerging theatre artists. For a second time, Resounding Scream Theatre has helmed the event, and while the gathering was delightful yet again, it lacked the daring and quirky humour [...]

Tonight, Sara Bynoe is dropping by to talk about recent milestones of Say Wha?! which is the best worst literature you’ll ever hear read aloud. Its 3 years old next week, and you can even check out the new podcast. But first we’ll explore the patina of sea. More specifically, we explore IOU at Unit/Pitt [...]

Tonight on the Arts Report, Maegan brings you an interview with April Butler and Gillian Hrankowski, directors of the emotionally raw roller coaster ride Father Figures, screening at DOXA Saturday May 11, 7:15 at the VanCity theatre. Listen to the full interview with April and Gillian. Then, in a very special treat, the Trokia Collective [...]

The DOXA Documentary Film Festival, sponsored by CiTR, is on now, running May 3-12, 2013. If you for some crazy reason missed them, you can check out on air reviews of The Horse Palace and Joe Papp in Five Acts at the beginning of the Arts Report April 24, Fight Like Soldiers Die Like Children (May 11) [...]

  Beginning this Friday May 3rd and continuing on until May 12th, CiTR is proud to sponsor the 12th Annual DOXA Documentary Film Festival. “Seventy-four screenings, 5 venues, and dozens of opportunities to engage in discussion with panelists and filmmakers, the 12th annual DOXA Documentary Film Festival will feature 10 days of some of the [...]

James Connell attended Ballet BC’s Giselle April 25th at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Gay men cannot fall for women. This is a well known fact, just like all wives are good housekeepers and husbands love football more than opera. Therefore you can imagine the surprise when Albrecht (Connor Gnam), the hero of BC Ballet’s Giselle, turned his [...]

Today on the show, reviews DOXA 2013 films Horse Palace and Joe Papp in Five Acts  and two in studio guests: Listen to the podcast now! The Vancouver International Burlesque Festival is back May 2-4th, and Tranny Zukko will be on the show to talk about his breakout boylesque career, his troupe Dirty Vanities, and the festival. [...]

Arts Reporter Ben Lumley attended Astrolabe Musik Theatre’s Sex Lives of Vegetables on April 20, 2013. The evening began with Governor General Award-winning poet Lorna Crozier relating how she was inspired to write The Sex Lives of Vegetables. One day as she was baking a sweet potato, the vegetable split, exposing a sensuous orange flesh.  After [...]

Tonight on the Arts Report at 5pm! Three segments, no pre recording! Maegan reviews SPIN by evalyn parry which runs at the Cultch until this Saturday, April 20th. Then, Sara Lapsley speaks in studio Katie Schroeder, Master’s Candidate in the Critical and Curatorial Studies program at UBC, curator of “Full Frontal” at the Satellite Gallery, a show [...]

Tonight on the Arts Report! Gareth Moses (left in the pic) of one of my fave CiTR programs More Than Human 7pm Sundays, as well as Fantastic Cat productions, will be on with reps from his first art show which will be having an encore this Friday put on by the shack (art) collective which [...]