GO SEE A MUSICAL
The Lower Mainland of British Columbia has a wonderfully active musical theatre community.
Click on the bold-ed show titles for further information.

2020
As the world continues to navigate this unprecedented crisis we have removed cancelled shows here, but are updating shows as we hear/read about them.  Let's hope we can start to gather to enjoy musicals by then. 

The Last 5 Years - Theatre In The Country (September 10 – 26)
Hey Viola! A New Musical (October 15-25)
Little Volcano - The Cultch/Theatre Replacement (October 22-25)
Billy Bishop Goes to War - Ace Productions @ Deep Cove Theatre (October 29 - November 1)
Billy Bishop Goes to War - Ace Productions @ ACT (November 7 - 8)
Billy Bishop Goes to War - Ace Productions @ Theatre In The Country (November 11 - 14)
do you want what I have got? a craigslist cantata - The Cultch (November 19-22)

Pantos:
Panto Come Home - The Cultch/Theatre Replacement (December 17-January 3)

2021
17th Annual OVATION! Awards - (Sunday January 31)
Seussical The Musical - Align Entertainment (February 4 - 20)
Beehive - First Impressions Theatre (February 25 - March 13)
Songs for A New World - First Impressions Theatre (May 6 - 22)
Anything Goes - FVGSS (May TBC)
Mamma Mia! - The Lawyer Show (Dates TBC)
Elvis The Musical - Arts Club Theatre Company (May 13 - July 4)
Love's Labour's Lost - Bard On The Beach (Dates TBC)
A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline - Arts Club Theatre Company (June 17 - Aug 1)
Catch Me If You Can - Theatre in The Country (June 2021 TBC)
Cabaret - Raincity Theatre (2021 TBC)
Ring of Fire - First Impressions Theatre (2021 TBC)

(Are you presenting a musical in the Lower Mainland and not on this list? Click here to email us to be included.  
Past 2020
Rapunzel: The Pantomime - SMP Dramatic Society (January 17-Feb 1)
16th Annual OVATION! Awards - Sunday January 26, 2020
Urinetown - Studio 58/Langara College (January 30-February 16)
Shrek - Align Entertainment (January 31-February 15)
Nunsense - First Impressions Theatre (February 13-29)
Talking Sex on Sundays  (new musical) - Firehall Arts Centre (February 14 – March 8)
Other Local Links
​Companies that present musicals & light opera/operetta in Vancouver:
APPLAUSE! Musicals Society
Ace Productions
Awkward Stage Productions
Align Entertainment
Arts Club Theatre Company
Burnaby Lyric Opera
Carousel Theatre For Young People
Dramanatrix Productions
Down Stage Right Productions
Emerald Pig Theatrical Society
​Fabulist Theatre
Footlight Theatre Company
Fighting Chance Productions
Firehall Arts Centre
First Impressions Theatre
Fugue Theatre
FVGSS A Musical Theatre Company
Gateway Theatre
Kay Meek Center
Metro Cooperative Theatre Society
North Shore Light Opera Society
North Vancouver Community Players
Once Upon A Theatre (Broadway Chorus)
​Patrick Street Productions
Pipedream Theatre Project
Presentation House Theatre
​Renegade Productions 
Royal City Musical Theatre
Showstoppers & Gotta Sing!Gotta Dance!
SPECC-tacular Productions
Studio 58
Theatre Under The Stars
Touchstone Theatre
​URP Theatrical
UBC Musical Theatre Troupe
White Rock Players' Club
 
Neighbour Companies
Schmooze Productions (Nanaimo)
Victoria Operatic Society (Victoria)

Post Secondary Educational Programs:
Langara College: Studio 58
Capilano University College: Musical Theatre Program
UBC School of Music-UBC Opera Ensemble

Opera
City Opera Vancouver
Opera Pro Cantanti
The Opera Project
Opera Mariposa
Pacific Opera (Victoria)
Skagit Opera (Mt. Vernon)
UBC Opera
Vancouver Academy of Music
Vancouver Island Opera (Parksville)
Vancouver Opera

​Music Directors in the Lower Mainland
Peter Abando* 
Arielle Ballance 
James Bryson 
Wendy Bross Stuart
Ken Cormier
Kevin Michael Cripps*
Caitlin Hayes*
Brent Hughes
Angus Kellett*
Christopher King*
Kerry O'Donovan*
* APPLAUSE! Musicals In Concert Alum
Land Acknowledgement: APPLAUSE! Musicals Society acknowledges that musicals in the Lower Mainland are performed on the unceded and traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.