Baroque Festival 2025 another spectacular musical featIn an era of YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, and Soulseek, it’s easier than ever to find music, and audio technology has advanced to the point where listening to an album on a set of closed-ear, noise-cancelling headphones with 20,000 Hz drivers is almost as good as the real thing. Almost. Early Music Vancouver dabbles in classics […] Continue Reading |
Collective Soul and Our Lady Peace rock 30th anniversary at arenaOn the night of Monday, February 24, Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre hosted two iconic bands best known from the early ’90s. With over 6,000 fans in attendance, Collective Soul and Our Lady Peace delivered an engaging and nostalgic performance in the city of Victoria. Collective Soul was formed in Stockbridge, Georgia in 1992. On Monday night, […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Drake and PartyNextDoor collab massive failDrake/PartyNextDoor $ome $exy $ongs 4 U (OVO Sound/Santa Anna/Republic Records) 1/5 $$$4U arrived on Valentine’s Day and marks the long-awaited first full-length R&B collaboration between Canadian artists Drake and PartyNextDoor. The album contains 21 songs and lasts a total of 73 minutes. Let’s get this straight out of the way: the album is boring, is […] Continue Reading |
Victoria Film Festival reviews: Frieda’s Case, Sweet Summer Pow WowFrieda’s Case Frieda’s Case depicts the real-life 1904 Swiss court case of Frieda Keller, a woman charged with the murder of her five-year-old son, Ernst. Unlike a more typical legal drama, the actions of Frieda are never in question—she confesses within the first few minutes of screen time. Yet, despite believing her confession, her family […] Continue Reading |
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night insightful commentary on modern issuesShakespeare’s 21st play is a romantic comedy that, while produced in 1600, seems quite relevant to a contemporary audience, dealing with social issues like gender norms and other pressing problems like climate change and related ecological disasters. Directed by Fran Gebhard and presented through UVic’s Phoenix Theatre, Twelfth Night is set in what may be […] Continue Reading |
Pieces of Performance: Sovereign Ace brings Black excellence to islandReigning from Nanaimo is a most mystical and mind-bending performer. Sovereign Ace has been nothing short of an incredible creator and sharer of any fantasy realm that they can dream up. From fan of drag to performing for two years, they have presented Black excellence from Nanaimo to Victoria. Celebrating gender fluidity and freedom has […] Continue Reading |
The Killing Game hit-or-miss anthology of flippant fatalitiesThere’s something familiar to me about a raging deadly pandemic sweeping through a population, laying waste to its inhabitants and sparking political unrest, and through the residual trauma, I want nothing more than to just laugh and laugh at all of the fresh gravestones and ruined lives. This, at least, is the conceptual basis behind […] Continue Reading |
Behind the Moon a stellar hitBehind the Moon is a gloriously triumphant victory of stage theatre. I went into it not knowing much, aside from the fact that it takes place in a Toronto-based Indian restaurant and stars one of Schitt’s Creek’s most endearing actors, Rizwan Manji. Aside from that, I was blissfully unaware of what I was sitting down […] Continue Reading |
Queen Maeve explores forgiveness through fantasyDirector and set designer Diana Budiachenko is a lover of creating abstraction and fantasy through her theatre productions, so it makes sense that she was excited to take on Queen Maeve. Theatre Inconnu’s production of Governor General Award winner Judith Thompson’s play is a perfect fit for Budiachenko. “When I read it for the first […] Continue Reading |
Isle of Tease returns to showcase diversity in burlesqueIsle of Tease has become one of the most anticipated burlesque shows of the year. Event co-producer Cherry Cheeks says that Isle of Tease, which brings together performers from local and afar, means a lot for the island burlesque community. “I’m always excited for the local performers… [They] get to be on a theatre stage […] Continue Reading |
