1. Mamma Mia!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, returns to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre to inflict its feel-good vibes, outlandish costumes and earworms of 鈥淒ancing Queen鈥� and 鈥淪.O.S.鈥� on adoring audiences March 29 to April 3. Details and tickets at Mamma-Mia.com.
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2. Exotic dancer, alleged First World War spy and a mother of modern feminism, Mata Hari is also the subject of a new physical theatre piece by Rachel Peake and Sinziana Corozel. Devised and performed in French, Mata Hari runs March 30 to April 3 at Studio 16. Tickets at Eventbrite.ca. Details at singlelinetheatre.com.
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3. Described as 鈥渢he Youtube of theatre,鈥� the fifth annual Pull Festival takes over Granville Island鈥檚 Studio 1398 for a whiplash-inducing program of seven 10-minute plays by the likes of Mack Gordon, Anton Lipovetsky, Sean Harris Oliver and Pippa Johnstone, to name a few. It all goes down March 24 to 26. Details at speakeasytheatre.ca听 听
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4. Things get dark and strange over at Vancity Theatre as it teams up with the 麻豆传媒映画Latin-American Film Festival for Mexico Noir, March 25 to April 1. The Mexican film noir series features rarely seen classics from the 1940s and 鈥�50s, a subversive 1970s parody and Bleak Street, a new film from Arturo Ripstein rife with crime, prostitution and luchador wrestling. Details at viff.org.
5. Reunited and it feels so good. Former tour mates Rodney Decroo and Victoria鈥檚 Carolyn Mark share a stage for the first time since a rather tumultuous cross-Canada tour five years when Decroo unceremoniously dumped his band with two weeks of shows remaining. Awkward. Decroo will be kicking it up a notch with his country outfit the Wise Blood and Mark will be her usual charming self when the two play, and likely perform a duet or two, at Backspace March 26. Tickets at Highlife Records, Red Cat, Zulu Records and evenbrite.ca.听
