1. Billed as the “U2 of Taiko drumming,” Japanese music ensemble Yamato bangs the drum and performs its smash hitBakuonfor the first time in Vancouver, Feb. 6, at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at ticketstonight.ca. Details at.
2. Presented by the PuSh Festival with the Dance Centre, Relative Collider comes from the limber minds of France’s Liz Santoro/Le principe d’incertitude. Inspired by physics, numerical structure and language, the brainy dance performance gets heady Feb. 4 to 6 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre. Tickets $36 at ticketstonight.ca. Details at .
3. Alley Theatre presents Hannah Moscovitch’s suspenseful psychodrama Little One Feb. 9 to 13 at the Firehall Arts Centre. Directed by Amiel Gladstone (A Craigslist Cantata, Are We Cool Now?), Little One is told through the now adult voices of its two main characters and “weaves stories of childhood horror and teenage humiliation into a twisted, wryly funny, and ultimately haunting narrative.” Details and tickets at or by calling 604-689-0926.
4. Written by Tomson Highway and set in the fictional Northern Ontario town of Lovely,The (Post) Mistressis billed as “a fun and quirky one-woman cabaret-style show, peppered with original music” performed by the town’s gossipy and charismatic postal worker, Marie-Louise. The Arts Club production runs Feb. 4 to 28 at the BMO Theatre Centre. Tickets and details at