Local Arts

More than 50 dances of all ages will be taking to the stage for Douglas Ballet Academy's first full-length ballet production. The Burnaby-based dance school is staging Coppelia on Feb. 25 and 26 at the Inlet Theatre in Port Moody.

A Burnaby performer is singing her way back to the 1950s in the Vancouver premiere of The Marvelous Wonderettes. The musical, which opened Feb.

She's a rising start in the world of choreography - and now Burnaby's Shannon Moreno has a chance to see her work take centre stage. The world premiere of Moreno's work Something(s) Relative will take to the stage at the Scotiabank Dance Centre Feb.

The work of a Burnaby artist will soon be seen at a new East Side gallery in Vancouver. Carly Lovett, along with other members of the artist collective The Seasonal Workers, is presenting work in the new exhibition The Romance Capital of the Yukon.

Love theatre? Here's one that sounds fascinating. Confessions of the Other Woman is onstage at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from Feb. 22 to 25.

A Burnaby resident is onstage starting this week in a neo-burlesque musical in Vancouver. Michael Kovac appears in Lost Girls of Neverland, which plays at the Anza Club from Feb. 16 to March 3.

Charles Dickens meets Choose Your Own Adventure in a new production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Fighting Chance Productions is staging the musical from Feb. 18 to March 3 at the Metro Theatre in Vancouver.

Lovers of the written word are invited to join in the fun at the Burnaby Writers' Society's next Spoken Ink night. The next event in the monthly reading series is set for Tuesday, Feb. 21 at La Fontana Caffe, 1013701 Hastings St. in North Burnaby.

Art lovers are being invited to check out some eye music. The Burnaby Art Gallery is offering up an outreach exhibition at the McGill library branch in North Burnaby until March 12.

To give you an idea of how good the pizza is at Stan's Pizza Joint at 4527 Hastings St., you need look no further than Judith Gauge.