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Fun farce delivers at Gateway

Fun farce delivers at Gateway

Don’t Dress for Dinner successfully pulls off hilarious bedroom plot twists and slamming doors
How big an influence is art?

How big an influence is art?

Latest instalment of the Lulu Series: Art in the City program sees Michael Rohd, founder of the Center for Performance and Civic Practice, consider the merits of art
Dramatic debut for writer-director

Dramatic debut for writer-director

David Volpov admits he’s not sure just how he’ll feel when the curtain goes up on opening night next Monday (April 18). Nervous? Confident? Neither seem to fit quite right for the Grade 12 drama club member at Steveston-London secondary.
Film urges kids to ditch phones

Film urges kids to ditch phones

A Richmond husband and wife duo are bringing their vision for a fantasy musical to the silver screen that urges youngsters to put down their cellphones and gaming controls to discover what it’s like to be kids again.
News salesmen fight their flab, smitten with trash talk

News salesmen fight their flab, smitten with trash talk

Ad director and sales rep compete for fitness supremacy
Say what you see! Gateway introduces program for blind

Say what you see! Gateway introduces program for blind

Work cut out describers during Gateway Theatre's farcical play
Lego convention built on more than plastic bricks

Lego convention built on more than plastic bricks

Lego, apparently, is not just child's play
Gateway Theatre review: French farce a fun tour de force

Gateway Theatre review: French farce a fun tour de force

Don’t Dress for Dinner plot unravels with panache
Book Club: Author’s use of common words explains a lot

Book Club: Author’s use of common words explains a lot

Sometimes, we find things in the world that are hard to understand, especially things that are very hard to build or that are made of lots of little parts. This book by Randall Munroe called Thing Explainer helps make these hard things easier to get.
Book Club: DeWitt's latest is a good kind of strange

Book Club: DeWitt's latest is a good kind of strange

Patrick deWitt’s Undermajordomo Minor is a strange book. But wait, don’t put it away — it’s the good kind of strange, the type that makes you marvel at deWitt’s imagination while attempting to make sense of the world into which he’s dropped you.