Local Arts

Paul Moniz de Sá cherishes the chance to nurture young theatre talents with Arts Umbrella

It’s a spring production with a twist. Or eight twists, really. Cariboo Hill Secondary School isn’t just offering up one play for its big spring theatre company showcase this year.

Burnaby performers are front and centre at a festival celebrating Chinese music this weekend. The second Sound of Dragon Music Festival runs until April 24 at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre in Vancouver.

Capturing the Essence opens May 14 at Burnaby Arts Council gallery

Three Burnaby students are starring in a new production of Shrek the Musical. Notre Dame Regional Secondary School is presenting the show May 4 to 7.

ONGOING To Saturday, April 23 Tea and Sympathy, a Vagabond Players production of the classic coming-of-age drama, at the Bernie Legge Theatre, Queen’s Park, with Thursday through Saturday shows at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

With the announcement that Colin James is returning to headline the Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival this summer, we dug back into the vaults to find an interview with the Canadian blues-rocker from 2004 - when he first came to headline the festival.

Canadian blues-rocker Colin James is coming back to Burnaby. James is headlining the 2016 edition of the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival, coming Saturday, Aug. 6 to Deer Lake Park.

Celina Martin appears in The Other Kingdom, premiering April 22 on Family Channel