Morris Panych’s The Shoplifters stars Alma, a seasoned career shoplifter who prefers the five-finger discount over some lousy seniors’ day deal. But it’s not just an empty wallet that leads Alma to a life of petty crime – it’s also her strong convictions about social justice and economic equality.

More information here.

January 9, 2020
NORTH VANCOUVER
The BlueShore at CapU

January 10 & 11, 2020
WEST VANCOUVER
Kay Meek Arts Centre

January 14, 2020
NEW WESTMINSTER
Anvil Centre

January 15–25, 2020
SURREY
Surrey Arts Centre

January 28–Feb 1, 2020
COQUITLAM
Evergreen Cultural Centre

February 2, 2020
MISSION
Clarke Theatre

February 6 & 7, 2020
MAPLE RIDGE
The ACT Arts Centre

February 8 & 9, 2020
BURNABY
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Bill Richardson will read from I Saw Three Ships at the Salt Spring Public Library. More info here.

January 25, 2020
7 p.m.
Salt Spring Public Library
129 McPhillips Ave
Salt Spring Island
BC V8K 2T5

Oana Avasilichioaei will read from Eight Track, with Moina Pam Dick. More info here.

January 27, 2020
7 p.m.
McNally Jackson
52 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012

Mercedes Eng and Fred Wah will read with Michael Melgaard, Cassandra Blanchard, Mallory Tater, and Yilin Wang at the 10th anniversary of the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series on Thursday, February 13. Hosted by Dina Del Bucchia and Sean Cranbury.

More details to come.

Thursday February 13
Time TK
Russian Hall
600 Campbell Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6A 3K1

Mom’s the Word was created out of a Saturday morning writers’ support group. Getting together to share their experiences, six women performers struck upon the idea to write about what they were going through as mothers trying to maintain their careers, their individual identities and their relationships with their partners. The result is an evening of hilarious stories, bittersweet monologues, poetic reflections and revelatory anecdotes. Touching tales of giving birth to a premature baby are balanced against comic, ribald rants on diaper soup; whispered, hesitant conversations about sex after children; and the desperate confessionals of the over-stressed.

More info here.

February 27 to March 8, 2020
Palace Theatre
710 Dundas Street
London, ON N5W 2Z4

Daniel Canty will lead a workshop called “Found in Translation” at Passa Porta in Brussels, Belgium.

Workshop held in French and Dutch. More info here.

Thursday, February 27, 2020
7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Rue Antoine Dansaert 46,1000
Bruxelles, Belgium

Impromptu on Nuns’ Island
Comedy/Drama by Michael Tremblay, translated by Linda Gaboriou
Directed by Donna Challis

Synopsis: An opera diva, Patricia, meets her Waterloo singing Salome at the Opera Bastille in Paris.
In an impromptu get-together in her Nuns’ Island penthouse, on the afternoon of her return from Europe, h
​er mother (a popular Montreal stage and television actress pushing 70), and her idealistic committed-to-new-work daughter goad her. What is the sense of an international career if your art doesn’t contribute to change (or at least to widespread pleasure and inspiration) in the society you live in?

March 24 to April 4, 2020
BCP Little Theatre
102 26th Street
Battleford SK

Arleen Paré will read from Earle Street at the Mayne Island community library. More details to come.

Saturday, April 11
Time TBA
411 Naylor
Mayne Island, BC V0N 2J2

Arleen Paré will read from Earle Street at Munro’s Books. More details to come.

Tuesday, April 21
7 p.m.
Munro’s Books
1108 Government Street
Victoria, BC, V8W 1Y2

Penny and Ezra Lamb are home-schooled by their parents on a hippie colony near Uranium City until the police discover it also happens to be the largest marijuana grow-op in Saskatchewan. Legoland is how their pot-smoking elders always described the outside world, and the Lamb siblings are dying to get there.

More info here.

April 22 to May 9
The Bailey Studio
2373 Rosstown Road
PO Box 796,
Nanaimo, BC
V9R 5M2

Based on true events, Daisy is a political drama that presents the moment in TV history that ushered in the age of negative advertising and forever changed how we elect our leaders. It also tells the more cynical tale of how a nation got led into war, distracted by the “packaging” of a seemingly peaceful U.S. president. Daisy explores the art and science of political manipulation, the forces at play on public consciousness in our mediated world, and the impact that fear has had on our democracy.

April 29 to May 17, 2020
International City Theatre
330 E. Seaside Way
Long Beach, CA 90802

Arleen Paré will read from Earle Street at Planet Earth Poetry in Victoria. More details to come.

Friday, May 8
7:15 p.m.
Hillside Coffee and Tea
1633 Hillside Avenue
Victoria, B.C.

Scarborough’s The Guild Festival Theatre will present David French’s Salt-Water Moon.

August 12 to 22
The Greek Theatre
Guild Park & Gardens
201 Guildwood Parkway
Scarborough, ON