麻豆传媒映画

Those who saw the 麻豆传媒映画Bach Choir鈥檚 performance of Andrew Downing鈥檚 score of the 1925 silent film Phantom of the Opera at the Orpheum in 2013 praised it highly.

1. The 16th annual Chutzpah! Jewish performing arts festival gets underway Feb. 18 and runs until March 13 at the Norman Rothstein Theatre and various offsite venues.

We may not be much more evolved than the Puritans were, some 400 years ago. The fact that the witch is so prevalent an archetype 鈥� and sure box office draw 鈥� speaks to a deep-seeded cultural fear of female autonomy and sexuality, then and now.

Osteria Savio Volpe makes for sly addition to Kingsway

In Jane Austen鈥檚 novel Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy does not kiss Miss Elizabeth Bennet at the end. That would have been ungentlemanly of him 鈥� and he certainly is a gentleman.

1. The latest project from acclaimed theatre dude Robert Lepage 鈥� 887 鈥� was inspired by Lepage 鈥檚 memories of growing up in Quebec during the 1960s and uses film, projection and miniature scale models to conjure the past.

Sure, he鈥檚 had a few high-profile romances, career highs and lows, and is now married with a baby, but Ryan Reynolds hasn鈥檛 changed all that much since 2002鈥檚 Van Wilder.

Shindig organizer and emcee hangs up microphone after 15 years

The historical period that writer/director/performer Rick Miller covers with lightning speed in Boom starts appropriately with a boom and ends with a boom: the Aug. 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and the launch of Apollo II on July 16, 1969.

1. Billed as the 鈥淯2 of Taiko drumming,鈥� Japanese music ensemble Yamato bangs the drum and performs its smash hit Bakuon for the first time in Vancouver, Feb. 6, at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at ticketstonight.ca. Details at showoneproductions.