Vancouver’s Flickering Lights Productions has a winner on its hands. Their presentation of Tony Award-winning playwright Jason Robert Brown’s small musical recounting a five-year relationship, saw successful runs at the Cultch and Studio 1398, and has now just emerged from Theatre B.C.’s Greater Vancouver Zone Festival with six awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, and People’s Choice Best Production. Before competing in the B.C. finals, in July, the company presents these fundraiser performances of the powerful and intimate song cycle. The show stars Ryley Qualtieri who tells the love story from the beginning, and Robyn Van Luven, who shares her account from the breakup looking back.
Jun 19-21 & 26-28 | Havana Theatre
Tickets: $20/22 at flickeringlightproductions.com
Sabor Flamenco
Vancouver-based Centro Flamenco Rosario’s dancers and musicians cut loose with a cabaret of diverse rhythms and choreography, from jaunty rumbas to sensual duets. Guided by the passionate Rosario Ancer and guitarist Victor Kolstee, expect the dancers and the band to evoke the essence of flamenco — the creative pull between sophistication and rawness, control and abandon, that is embedded in the form.
June 21, 8 p.m. | Vancouver Playhouse
Tickets: $30 at centroflamenco.com
Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards
Join Vancouver’s tight knit theatre community in celebration of the year’s best work. Once again, Vancouver TheatreSports, producers of the ceremony, move proceedings along with their trademark humour. This year could be a biggie for underdogs. With 14 nominations, Pacific Theatre, the Christian-focused 128-seater, received only one fewer nods than the much larger Bard on the Beach’s 15, and more nominations than Arts Club Theatre’s 13. And ITSAZOO Productions’ Killer Joe (whose cast is pictured) received the most nominations of any single production, with seven.
June 23, 6:30 p.m. | Commodore Ballroom
Tickets: $29.50 ticketmaster.ca
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