Picks of the week - October 19, 2012

 

 
Vancouver Courier October 19, 2012
 
 
 
Vancouver Opera transports audiences to the Bohemian world of 19th-century Paris with its production of Puccini's romance, drama and humour-filled La BohŠme. Described as a "heartbreaking, universal portrait of youth and beauty struggling to survive in a world of hardship," which coincidentally describes the Courier's editorial department, La BohŠme runs Oct. 20 to 28 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Call 604-683-0222 or go to vancouveropera.ca
 

Vancouver Opera transports audiences to the Bohemian world of 19th-century Paris with its production of Puccini's romance, drama and humour-filled La BohŠme. Described as a "heartbreaking, universal portrait of youth and beauty struggling to survive in a world of hardship," which coincidentally describes the Courier's editorial department, La BohŠme runs Oct. 20 to 28 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Call 604-683-0222 or go to vancouveropera.ca

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Vancouver Opera transports audiences to the Bohemian world of 19th-century Paris with its production of Puccini's romance, drama and humour-filled La BohŠme. Described as a "heartbreaking, universal portrait of youth and beauty struggling to survive in a world of hardship," which coincidentally describes the Courier's editorial department, La BohŠme runs Oct. 20 to 28 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Call 604-683-0222 or go to vancouveropera.ca
 

Vancouver Opera transports audiences to the Bohemian world of 19th-century Paris with its production of Puccini's romance, drama and humour-filled La BohŠme. Described as a "heartbreaking, universal portrait of youth and beauty struggling to survive in a world of hardship," which coincidentally describes the Courier's editorial department, La BohŠme runs Oct. 20 to 28 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Call 604-683-0222 or go to vancouveropera.ca

Photograph by: submitted , for the Courier

 
Vancouver Opera transports audiences to the Bohemian world of 19th-century Paris with its production of Puccini's romance, drama and humour-filled La BohŠme. Described as a "heartbreaking, universal portrait of youth and beauty struggling to survive in a world of hardship," which coincidentally describes the Courier's editorial department, La BohŠme runs Oct. 20 to 28 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Call 604-683-0222 or go to vancouveropera.ca
Magician Travis Bernhardt, gangly co-host Aleister Crane, and Spectral Theatre veterans David Quast, Andrew Harron and Connie Cahoots team up with burlesque beauties Melody Mangler and Voodoo Pixie for an evening of magic, burlesque and theatre, with a splattering of horror for good measure. The third annual Abra-Cadaver Cabaret spills blood and feather boas across the stage of the WISE Hall, Oct. 19, 9 p.m. Tickets $15 at abracadaver.brownpapertickets.com or $20 at the door.
The Vancouver Writers Fest promises a jam-packed weekend with the likes of Margaret Atwood, Annabel Lyon, Dennis Lee, Douglas Coupland, Chip Kidd, Susan Swan and Toronto's Emily Schultz, who does triple duty with the events Humour With Bite (Friday), Beyond Survival (Saturday) and Due South (Saturday). More info at writersfest.bc.ca
Pacific Cinematheque marks the 50th anniversary of the most commercially successful Godzilla movie ever made with a screening of Ishir“ Honda's 1962 cult classic King Kong vs. Godzilla. Japan's radioactively mutated lizard tangles with the enormous American ape on the top of Mount Fuji, Oct. 21, 1 p.m. as part of Pacific Cinematheque's Cinema Sunday afternoon film program for children and their families, followed by "discussions, activities and games intended to be fun and stimulate critical and creative thinking." For more info, call 604-688-FILM or go to cinematheque.bc.ca.
 
 
 
 
 

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