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Jewish-ish is a performance piece by Canadian violinist Laura Nerenberg that combines storytelling with violin playing. Nerenberg describes what it’s been like for her living half a century as a secular Jew in Catholic Montreal. The crux of Jewish-ish—part of this year’s Fringe Fest, with one last performance at 7 pm on Saturday, August 31—is […]

When I first walked into the Metro Studio to see the Fringe production Castle of Glass, I immediately sensed something was different from the status quo. Usually, before theatre shows, the audience is greeted with the eerie silence of an empty stage, or the sounds of pre-recorded music piped in over the speakers. Instead, a […]

The Illusionary Magic of Sitruc James is a fun venture into sleight-of-hand magic, presented by the Victoria Fringe Festival. This light-hearted show boasts a wide variety of tricks: some we’ve probably seen before, others that seem completely inexplicable. Sitruc James, a comedian with a wry wit, has been practicing magic for over 30 years, since […]

Welcome to Croglin is a short play produced by Victoria theatre company Outpost 31 and presented through the Fringe Festival. Written by David Elendune, it tells of a struggling playwright who falls asleep and dreams that the ghost of Katharine Hepburn visits him to “right his wrongs,” according to the production’s description. While I’m not […]

Local writer and former fashion columnist Guy Babineau launched his debut book of short stories on Wednesday, July 3, just in time for Victoria’s pride season. The book, Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness, collects material from Babineau’s life as a young gay man, and builds those experiences into a series of fictional vignettes […]

Present Laughter is a stage play written by Noël Coward in 1939, following the life and antics of actor Garry Essendine and his closest friends and enemies. Produced by the Langham Court Theatre under director Don Keith, the original script is presented completely faithfully, and the strength of the writing is evident in the immense […]

I’ve been fascinated with the backstories of the 2008 financial crash since it happened. I’ve wondered many times about what could possibly have led to such immense chaos. The Lehman Trilogy, currently running at The Belfry Theatre, gives those of us who wonder a closer look into the crash—starting out with an innocent dream of […]

Opera is a tricky thing. People either love it or are seriously frightened of it. I grew up in an arts-appreciative family and had a fair amount of experience with opera from a young age, so I was excited, to say the least, when I heard that The Marriage of Figaro was being performed at […]