Citr -- Arts Report

We start by interviewing Corey Payette on his new trilingual musical, Les Filles du Roi. We finish off with the undebut of our Ask a Smart Aleck segment, a plug for Staggers and Jaggs upcoming show at the Fox, and a personal recap on a certain series of happenings across Toronto, Santa Barbara, and Washington, DC.

Interview with Charles Demers, author of Property Values; and reviews of Havana Theatre's Cashless by Nathan Narusis, Arts Club's Me & You by Melody Anderson, Vancouver Theatresports' Improv on the Murder Express, the Vancouver Art Gallery's Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, and BOMBHEAD.

We open with a series of pop cultural digressions vaguely related to Stephanie Morin-Robert's Blindside. We progress to an interview with Roundhouse Youth Theatre Action Group's Valerie Methot and Latisha Wadhams, and we end with shoutouts to David C. Jones' production of Neil Labute's The Money Shot and Circa's Opus show, coming soon to the Chan Center.

Interviews with Jillian Christmas, Artistic Director of Verses Festival of Words; filmmaker Natalia Andrea of UBC's Persistence of Vision Festival. Reviews of Che Malambo, and shout outs to Pacific Theatre's Love/Sick, Lori Anderson, Expressions Festival, Cherry Blossom Festival, and Vancouver TheatreSports' Murder on the Improv Express. Hosted by Ashley Park, Jake Clark, and Lua Presidio.

We see how things change in Vancouver with author, historian, and all-around cool guy Aaron Chapman, and review Take 6 in Concert, talk poetry in Shut up And Say Something, Little Mountain Lion Productions' Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play. Hosted by Ashley Park and Jake Clark.

We've got 3 interviews for you today: Valerie Easton on the Massey Theatre's production of Cabaret, Madelyn Osborne on Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play at Studio 1398, and Alli MacKay about their short film Flash Flood. We end this plus-size show with conversation with correspondent Lua Presidio regarding Firehall's Chelsea Hotel and UBC Musical Theatre Troupe's Heathers.

In a restoration of a nearly-vanished podcast, we discuss MOV's Haida Now exhibit with director Vivianne Gosselin, as well as discuss UBC Theatre with reviews of UBC Players' Festival Dionysia and the BFA Acting program's year-end production of The Crucible.

We kick off the show by interviewing Jessica Nelson, director of UBC Theatre's currently-running production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. After the break, correspondent Monique Rodriguez gives us an interview with film director Mayumi Yoshida. We finish off with a shoutout to Anne Cormier's free Robson Square lecture, reviews of Too Fly's Little Miss Glitz and Studio 58's FOURPLAY, and a whole lot of puns.

We open with an interview with designer Janna Hurtzig, who gives us a rundown on Vancouver's indie fashion outing at First Pick Handmade. An interview with Robin Brunet introduces us to the grandiose personality of Frank Palmer, the Vancouver ad man whose biography hit the shelves in February, while Christine Kim's discussion with Matthew White explores the performance of Early Music Vancouver's Goldberg Variations. We close with correspondent Ileana Soza recapping the Out at the Inn comedy show and Lila Downs' recent performance at the Chan Centre.

We kick off the show by interviewing Wendy D on her VWiFF feature Mind Stories. A chat with Laura Harris on her Brave New Play Rites feature Gridlock brings us the finer points of clowning and the conceptual ramifications of staging a show in Bangkok. We go retrospective with a brief review of the Cinematheque's screening of Bob Fosse's Star 80, and finish things off with correspondent Lua Presidio giving us the skinny on Vancouver International Dance Festival.

With three interviews dealing with everything from the commodification of oxygen to UBC improv, we've got a packed show today! We start by chatting with Andrey Summers and Fiona Revill about their Brave New Play Rites show, mOXY, then chew the fat with Megan Fass and Alain Tahir regarding the Eternal Theatre Collective's production of Seven Minutes in Heaven. We close with a review of Arthur Holden's The Past, a technically-slanted interview with comedy duo Hip!Bang regarding their upcoming Just for Laughs debut, At Home, and close with a shoutout to the Growing Room feminist literary festival.

We look at various iterations of the Theatre of Depression as we interview Arthur Holden about the world premier of his play The Past, then proceed to discuss Fun Home with correspondent Shivangi Sikri. We end with a review of the ABB Collective's production of Fool for love, including an acknowledgement of the eclectic doings and prodigious legacy of the late playwright, Sam Shepard.

We open the show today with a Black History Month feature on VPL's Where Are You Really From? colloquium and the oft-overlooked cultural impact of Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers. Burlesque C&W balladeer Shirley Gnome swings by to tell us about her coming Valentine's variety show at the Rickshaw, and we end with an up-to-date history of awkward February 14th double-features.

To open the show, actor-director Frank Zotter and playwright Peter Takach swing by to fill us in on this year's Brave New Play Rites. Courtesy of Christine Kim, we have an interview with Julia Ullrich on Align Entertainment's production of Legally Blonde, as well as an interview with Deborah Pearson, the creator of the PuSh Festival's history history history. We close the show with correspondents Ileana De Soza and Lua Presidio, discussing the Arts Club's production of Jitters, the film Brasilia, the StoryHive webseries Luchador, Studio 58's The Skin of Our Teeth, and UBC Opera's La Cenerentola.

We open by interviewing playwright Dave Deveau on the tragic context of his play, My Funny Valentine. Correspondent Aaron Kenney debuts with a segment on some classic Vancouver films, and we announce the Flashback Film Festival Giveaway for the nostalgic theatregoers out there. We close the show with our dance correspondent Lua Presidio as we discuss MOA's excellent array of events, including the upcoming burlesque event Untamed, as well as a review of the Arts Club's Topdog/Underdog, a shoutout to Shari Ulrich's Songbird North, and a digression into the performing mannerisms of John Lee Hooker.

An interview triple-header gives us an interview with Lawrence Lam, Jerome Loo and Mary Galloway for Vancouver Short Film Festival, Marcus Youssef for PuSh Festival feature King Arthur's Night, and Aidan Wright for UBC Theatre's She Kills Monsters, followed by a discussion on the same show with Correspondents Ileana De Soza and Shivangi Sikri.

We're joined by first-time correspondent Shivangi Sikri discuss the Musical Theatre Troupe's 24-Hour Musical, with various digressions into the filmography of John Hughes and the mental state of Vincent Van Gogh, plus a couple of shout-outs to UBC Theatre's She Kills Monsters and the upcoming PuSh Festival.Hosted by Jake Clark.

It's our special hour and a half episode! Content Warning for strong language. The Arts Report interviews Gail Suderman of Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir's "Good Tidings!"; DJ A Slam talks about EDM and representation; reviews of Better Watch Out, directed by Chris Peckover; and Arts Club's Onegin by Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille; shout outs to The Disaster Artist, the MOA's Night Shift: Supernatural Vibes, and the Arts Club's Beauty and the Beast. We then talk about our picks of the year and the ever-changing sphere of what it means to be artists, view art, and consume media. Hosted by Ashley Park and Jake Clark.

We kick off the show by interviewing Brandon Taylor, UBC alumnus and televised embodier of Superman creator Jerry Seigel. Next we welcome Tatiana Povoroznyuk on to talk about Germaine Koh and Aaron Louis Cohen's Aferlives art installation, review last week's guests, Wendy Cheung and Rod Chau's show Seasons and Pacific Theatre's Almost Maine, as well as shout-out the Arts Club's Onegin, Global Party Starters' sophomore album Tonight and our friends at the UBC Dance Club's Holiday Ball. Hosted by Jake Clark and Ashley Park.

We talk to Wendy Cheung and Rod Chow about Seasons: A Magical Musical, a delightful mixture of musical concert, stage play, and magic show. Next, Jake reviews Kaveh Sabbaghzade's romantic-comedy Italia, Italia; Studio 58's production of The Wilderness; and UBC Musical Theatre Troupe's Before We Go. Hosted by Ashley Park and Jake Clark.