Author: Richard Wolak

Intimate Apparel

Last week I saw the Arts Club Theatre performance of Intimate Apparel, at the Granville Island Stage in Vancouver. This play is set in 1905 in New York City where, 35-year-old Esther is an independent African-American woman who...

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El Pasado Es un Animal Grotesco

I attended this show on February 3rd, there was a wonderful and educational talkback held after the show that was moderated by local actor Kenji Maeda. The actors who were on tour with their show as part of the Push Festival in...

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Chelsea Hotel

Sitting through Leonard Cohen’s powerful and inspirational musical “Chelsea Hotel” was a joyous experience that I had recently. It was rock operaesque, an illusory world full of enchantment, desire, passion and love. Haunted by...

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Entity

I took in the edgy and ground breaking performance of DanceHouse’s third presentation in its four-show series at the Vancouver Playhouse on February 10. The show featured white-hot UK choreographer Wayne McGregor, with work for...

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