When I hear “The Illusionists” is coming to town I quickly text a friend who is a magician.
 Sarah Bockel as Carole King. photo: Matthew Murphy It’s astonishing to consider the impact musicians Carole King and Gerry Goffin had on the music industry when they first began writing together in the late 50s/early 60s.
 Jennifer Lines, Quelemia Sparrow, and Marci T. House of Lysistrata. photo: David Cooper. Once again, Bard on the Beach branches out beyond Shakespeare. This year we are treated to Aristophanes’s infamous, and contemporarily relevant, Lysistrata.
 Moya O'Connell and Ben Carlson in Macbeth. photo David Cooper and Emily Cooper. There’s an awful lot jammed into Shakespeare’s shortest tragic tale of greed, guilt, and murder, murder, and (big breath) more murder.
 Lindsey Angell and Nadeem Phillip in As You Like It. photo: David Cooper and Emily Cooper This year Bard is set in Vancouver, complete with mountain lion.
 Riverdance helped celebrate its 20-year run with its opening performance at the Queen Elizabeth theatre last night.
 Oh what a night! The Jersey Boys opens with a splash travelling back to the 1950s for the astonishing story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music is as fresh, and in many ways relevant, today as it was when it first graced the big screen.
 photo: David Cooper and Emily Cooper It’s almost a given at Bard on the Beach that if Scott Bellis is involved it’s going to be a fun show. With Bellis at the director’s helm The Two Gentlemen of Verona is no exception.
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