Current Productions
The library maintains a list of current and future local theatre productions. This list is updated regularly.
Note: Vancouver Public Library is not liable for the accuracy of the following information.
THE LIBRARY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CHANGES IN PLAYS AND/OR PRODUCTION DATES
| Run | Title | Writer | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 13 - December 21, 2024 | The Hobbit | adapted by Kim Selody with additional dialogue by Tim Carlson and Peter Carlone | Pacific Theatre |
| November 14 – December 24, 2024 | Dolly Patron's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol | Adapted by David H. Bell, Paul T. Couch & Curt Wollan Book by David H. Bell Music & Lyrics by Dolly Parton | Arts Club Theatre @ Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage |
| November 20, 2024 – January 5, 2025 | East Van Panto : Robin Hood | Jivesh Parasram & Christine Quintana | Theatre Replacement @ York Theatre |
| November 21 - December 29, 2024 | Merry/Happy/Jolly | The Improv Centre | |
| November 21 – December 29, 2024 | Miracle on 34th Street | Adapted by Caleb Marshall & Erin Keating | Arts Club Theatre @ Granville Island Stage |
| November 29 - December 22, 2024 | It’s a Wonderful Life: On the Air | Peter Church | United Players of Vancouver @ Jericho Arts Centre |
| November 30 - December 22, 2024 | Reflections on Crooked Walking | Ann Mortifee | Firehall Arts Centre |
| December 4 - 29, 2024 | Cinderella panto | adapted from a script by Charlotte Johnson | White Rock Players Club @ Oceana PARC Playhouse |
| December 5 – 22, 2024 | The Gingerbread Men : A(nother) Holiday Carbaret | Arts Club Theatre @ Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre | |
| December 13 - 21, 2024 | Parfumerie | adapted by E. P. Dowdall | Gallery 7 Theatre |
| December 13, 2024 – January 4, 2025 | Oliver | Book, Music and Lyrics by Lionel Bart freely adapted from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist | Gateway Theatre |
| December 13, 2024 - January 5, 2025 | Cinderella: a traditional British pantomime | Shel Piercy and Jo Sears | Metro Theatre |
| December 15 - 23, 2024 | Christmas Presence | Pacific Theatre | |
| December 18 - 20, 2024 | Puss in Boots | SPECC-tacular Productions Theatre Group | |
| December 19 - 29, 2024 | CINDERELLA: A MAGICAL PANTOMIME | Tom Whalley | Deep Cove Stage Society @ Deep Cove Shaw Theatre |
| December 20 - 29, 2024 | Knotted: Rapunzel's Story | Crystal Weltzin & Argel Monte de Ramos | The Royal Canadian Theatre Company @ Surrey Arts Centre |
| January 3 - 5, 2025 | Knotted: Rapunzel's Story | Crystal Weltzin & Argel Monte de Ramos | Royal Canadian Theatre Company @ Massey Theatre |
| January 9 - 10, 2025 | Someone Like You | Christine Quintana | Arts Club Theatre on Tour @ Kay Meek Arts Centre |
| January 11 - 12, 2025 | Someone Like You | Christine Quintana | Arts Club Theatre on Tour @ Anvil Centre |
| January 15 - 18, 2025 | I Remember... | Joe INK @ Firehall Arts Centre | |
| January 15 - 25, 2025 | Someone Like You | Christine Quintana | Surrey Arts Centre |
| January 16 - 19, 2025 | The Tomorrow Box | Anne Chislett | Emerald Pig Theatrical Society @ Albion Community Centre |
| January 16 - February 16, 2025 | The Three Musketeers | Adapted by Catherine Bush | Arts Club Theatre & Citadel Theatre @ Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage |
| January 16 – February 9, 2025 | The Height of the Storm | Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton | United Players of Vancouver @ Jericho Arts Centre |
| January 16, 2025 | Beyond the Wall | University of British Columbia @ UBC Normand Theatre | |
| January 16 - 25, 2025 | Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery | Ken Ludwig | Stage 43 Theatrical Society |
| January 17 - February 1, 2025 | Bedtime Stories | Norm Foster | Sidekick Players Club @ Tsawwassen Arts Centre |
| January 21 - 26, 2025 | Beetlejuice | Broadway Across Canada @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre | |
| January 23 - 26, 2025 | The Tomorrow Box | Ann Chistlett | Emerald Pig Theatrical Society @ Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall |
| January 23 - February 2, 2025 | Rotten in the State of Denmark | Darcy J Knopp | Bard in the Valley @ Fort Langley Community Hall |
| January 24 - February 8, 2025 | The Music Man | Meredith Willson | Align Entertainment @ Michael J Fox Theatre |
| January 24 - February 15, 2025 | Sinners | Norm Foster | Metro Theatre |
| January 24 - February 1, 2025 | Irena's Vow | Dan Gordon | Gallery 7 Theatre |
| January 24 - 25, 2025 | Polygraph / Le Polygraphe | Robert Lepage | Pi Theatre |
| January 26, 2025 | Someone Like You | Christine Quintana | Arts Club Theatre on Tour @ Shadbolt Centre for the Arts |
| January 28 - February 1, 2025 | Someone Like You | Christine Quintana | Arts Club on tour @ Evergreen Cultural Centre Studio Theatre |
| January 29 – February 15, 2025 | The Da Vinci Code | Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel | Theatre in the Country |
| January 29 - February 8, 2025 | The Arsonists | Max Frisch; translated by Alistair Beaton | TelusStudio Theatre @ Chan Centre for the Performing Arts |
| January 30 - February 16, 2025 | Heathers : the musical | Book, Music, and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy | Studio 58 |
| January 30 - February 8, 2025 | Lasa Ng Imperyo (A Taste of Empire) | rice & beans theatre @ The Nest | |
| January 30 – February 15, 2025 | Wonderwall | James Barclay | North Vancouver Community Players |
| January 31 - February 2, 2025 | Fat Joke | Cheyenne Rouleau | Neworld Theatre @ Anvil Theatre |
| January 31 - February 2, 2025 | De Glace/From Ice | Tarjei Vesaas | L’eau du bain & Théâtre la Seizième @ Roundhouse Performance Centre |
| January 31 - February 9, 2025 | Heroes of the Fourth Turning | Will Arbery | Mitch and Murray Productions @ Studio 16, 1555 W. 7th Ave. |
| February 4 - 6, 2025 | Someone Like You | Christine Quintana | Arts Club Theatre on Tour @ BMO Theatre Centre |
| February 4 – 23, 2025 | Wonderful Joe | Historic Theatre | |
| February 4 - 8, 2025 | Hold On Let Go | Theatre Replacement @ Russian Hall | |
| February 5 - 23, 2025 | A Doll's House : Part II | Lucas Hnath | Western Gold Theatre @ Pacific Theatre |
| February 6 - 8, 2025 | Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla. | Abi Padilla | Ruby Slippers Theatre @ Shadbolt Centre for the Arts |
| February 6 - 8, 2025 | Dimanche | The Cultch @ Vancouver Playhouse | |
| February 6 – March 2, 2025 | Primary Trust | Eboni Booth | Arts Club Theatre @ Granville Island Stage |
| February 7 - 8, 2025 | Transpofagic Manifesto | Renata Carvalho | Waterfront Theatre |
| February 7, 2025 | Someone Like You | Christine Quintana | Arts Club Theatre on Tour @ Clarke Theatre |
| February 8 - 16, 2025 | Flight | Jonathan Dove | Vancouver Opera @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre |
| February 8 - 23, 2025 | Women of the Fur Trade | Frances Koncan | Firehall Arts Centre |
| February 8 - 9, 2025 | Someone Like You | Christine Quintana | Arts Club Theatre on Tour @ The ACT Arts Centre |
| February 13 - March 2, 2025 | Casablanca | adapted by Scott Wheeler | White Rock Players' Club |
| February 13 - 16, 2025 | Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla. | Abi Padilla | Ruby Slippers Theatre @ Presentation House Theatre |
| February 13 - March 2, 2025 | A Nice Indian Boy | Madhuri Shekar | Vagabond Players @ Bernie Legge Theatre |
| February 14 - 22, 2025 | Mothers and Sons | Terrrence McNally | Pivot Theatre @ Newton Cultural Centre |
| February 15, 2025 | Shield Maiden | Melanie Teichroeb | Surrey City Hall |
| February 17 - 23, 2025 | The Screamer (Le Criard) | Carol Cassistat ; translated by Dave Deveau | Théâtre du Gros Mécano & Carousel Theatre for Young People |
| February 18 - 22, 2025 | Shield Maiden | Melanie Teichroeb | Evergreen Cultural Centre Studio Theatre |
| February 19 – 22, 2025 | Otosan | Little Onion Puppet Company @ Gateway Theatre | |
| February 20 - March 8, 2025 | Pump Boys and Dinettes | First Impressions Theatre | |
| February 21 - 23, 2025 | Renovations For Six | Norm Foster | Naked Stage Productions Society @ Newton Cultural Centre |
| February 26 - March 8, 2025 | Ring of Fire : the music of Johnny Cash | Created by Richard Maltby, Jr., Conceived by William Meade, Orchestrations by Steven Bishop and Jeff Lisenby | Arts Club on tour @ Surrey Arts Centre |
| February 28 - March 22, 2025 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | Metro Theatre |
| March 5 - 8, 2025 | 10 million stars - and the stories they could tell | Highlands United Productions @ Highlands United Church | |
| March 6 - 16, 2025 | Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer | Kevin Loring | Savage Society @ York Theatre |
| March 6 - April 6, 2025 | Cambodian Rock Band | Lauren Yee | Arts Club Theatre @ Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage |
| March 11 - 15, 2025 | Ring of Fire : The Music of Johnny Cash | Created by Richard Maltby, Jr., Conceived by William Meade, Orchestrations by Steven Bishop and Jeff Lisenby | Arts Club on tour @ Evergreen Cultural Centre Studio Theatre |
| March 11 - 16, 2025 | The Sissy Duckling | Book & Lyrics by Nicola Elson | Music by Erica Barr, Nicola Elson, Rylan Kunkel, Shannon Murphy, and Greg Wilson | Based on the book by Harvey Fierstein | Theatre Outré |
| March 14 - 16, 2025 | We Don't Talk About Book Club | Patricia Brooke | Royal Canadian Theatre Company @ Surrey Arts Centre |
| March 14 - 28, 2025 | Footloose | adapted by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie | Gallery 7 Theatre |
| March 19 - 29, 2025 | The Last of the Pelican Daughters | UBC Theatre @ Frederic Wood Theatre | |
| March 20 - 23, 2025 | We Don't Talk About Book Club | Patricia Brooke | Royal Canadian Theatre Company @ Anvil Theatre |
| March 20 - April 6, 2025 | Common Grace | Shauna Johannesen | Little Dipper Theatre Co. @ BEZ Arts Hub |
| March 21 - April 13, 2025 | Home Deliveries | Catherine Léger, translated by Leanna Brodie | Ruby Slippers Theatre & United Players of Vancouver @ Jericho Arts Centre |
| March 21 – 29, 2025 | Children of God | Corey Payette | Urban Ink @ York Theatre |
| March 25 - 30, 2025 | TINA : The Tina Turner Musical | Broadway Across Canada @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre | |
| March 25 - April 6, 2025 | Behind the Moon | Anosh Irani | Touchstone Theatre @ Vancity Culture Lab, The Cultch |
| March 27 – April 20, 2025 | Burning Mom | Mieko Ouchi | Arts Club Theatre @ Granville Island Stage |
| March 27 - April 6, 2025 | Slasher | Craig Hull | Studio 58 |
| March 28 - April 12, 2025 | One For the Pot | Ray Cooney & Tony Hilton | Deep Cove Stage Society |
| March 28 – April 6, 2025 | Beauty and the Beast : My Life | Niall McNeil | Historic Theatre |
| April 2 - April 19, 2025 | Witness for the Prosecution | Agatha Christie | Theatre in the Country |
| April 2 - 13, 2025 | A History of Motown | Krystle Dos Santos | Firehall Arts Centre |
| April 2 - 6, 2025 | Ins Choi : Son of Preacherman | Ins Choi | Pacific Theatre |
| April 3 - 19, 2025 | Marjorie Prime | Jordan Harrison | North Vancouver Community Players |
| April 4 - 5, 2025 | The Knitting Pilgrim | Kirk Dunn & Claire Ross Dunn | Studio Theatre/Surrey Arts Centre |
| April 4 - 26, 2025 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Joseph Kesselring | Metro Theatre |
| April 8 - 12, 2025 | The Knitting Pilgrim | Kirk Dunn | Evergreen Cultural Centre Studio Theatre |
| April 9 - 12, 2025 | The Boy’s Own Jedi Handbook | Stephen Massicotte | Gallery 7 Theatre |
| April 9 - 12, 2025 | oblivion | Jonathan Brower | Gallery 7 Theatre |
| April 11 - April 27, 2025 | Black Coffee, a murder mystery | Agatha Christie | Theatre West Van |
| April 17 - 26, 2025 | Pride and Prejudice | Kate Hamill | Gateway Theatre and Western Canada Theatre |
| April 18 - 20, 2025 | Back from the Dead | Renegade Arts Co. | |
| April 18 - 25, 2025 | Shrek The Musical | David Lindsay-Abaire | Fraser Valley Stage @ Abbotsford Arts Centre |
| April 23 - May 11, 2025 | Stuart Little | Adapted by Joseph Robinette ; based on the book by E. B. White | Carousel Theatre for Young People |
| April 24 - May 11, 2025 | The Revolutionists | Lauren Gunderson | Vagabond Players |
| April 24 – May 25, 2025 | Casey and Diana | Nick Green | Arts Club Theatre @ Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage |
| April 24 - May 11, 2025 | Little Women - the Broadway Musical | Music by Jason Howland, Book by Allan Knee, Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein | White Rock Players' Club |
| April 26 - May 4, 2025 | Madama Butterfly | Giacomo Puccini | Vancouver Opera @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre |
| April 26, 2025 | Oh Pray Tell | Pacific Theatre | |
| April 29 - May 17, 2025 | According to Aurelie | Lauren Trotzuk | Langley Little Theatre |
| May 1 - 17, 2025 | songs for a new world | First Impressions Theatre | |
| May 1 - 11, 2025 | Love You Wrong Time | Deanna H. Choi and Maddie Bautista | The Cultch and Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre @ Historic Theatre |
| May 1 - 10, 2025 | The Father: A Tragic Farce | Florian Zeller ; translated by Christopher Hampton | Stage 43 Theatrical Society |
| May 1 - 18, 2025 | The Watsons | Laura Wade | Vital Spark Theatre @ Jericho Arts Centre |
| May 1 - 11, 2025 | Every Day She Rose | Andrea Scott & Nick Green | Zee Zee Theatre @ VanCity Culture Lab |
| May 1 - 12, 2025 | The Frontliners | Zahida Rahemtulla | Firehall Arts Centre |
| May 3 - 11, 2025 | The Music Man Jr. | Delta Youth Theatre | |
| May 5 - 8, 2025 | Things I Hide From Dad | Travis Abels | Pacific Theatre |
| May 7 - 24, 2025 | West Side Story | Based on a Conception of JEROME ROBBINS Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM | CTORA Productions @ Granville Island Stage |
| May 8 - 25, 2025 | Here We Go | Caryl Churchill | Western Gold Theatre @ PAL Studio Theatre |
| May 9 - 24, 2025 | The Play That Goes Wrong | Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields | Gallery 7 Theatre |
| May 9 - 31, 2025 | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice | Metro Theatre |
| May 13 - 17, 2025 | The Frontliners | Zahida Rahemtulla | Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre & Blackout Art Society @ Evergreen Cultural Centre Studio Theatre |
| May 13 - 18, 2025 | SIX | Broadway Across Canada @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre | |
| May 14 - June 7, 2025 | Meeting | Katherine Gauthier | Itsazoo Theatre @ Pacific Theatre |
| May 16 - 25, 2025 | The Magic Flute Reimagined! | North Shore Light Opera Society | |
| May 22 - 31, 2025 | Inner Elder | Michelle Thrush | Firehall Arts Centre |
| May 22 – June 7, 2025 | Parlour Games | J.M. Barrie and A. A. Milne | North Vancouver Community Players |
| May 24 - 31, 2025 | 13: The Musical | Jason Robert Brown | xoxo productions co. |
| May 29 - June 22, 2025 | An Ideal Husband | Oscar Wilde | United Players of Vancouver @ Jericho Arts Centre |
| June 4 - June 21, 2025 | Sister Act | music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, book by Bill and Cheri Steinkellner | Theatre in the Country |
| June 6 - 21, 2025 | Five Alarm | Kristen Da Silva | Deep Cove Stage Society |
| June 10 - 15, 2025 | Riverdance 30 - The New Generation | Broadway Across Canada @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre | |
| June 12 - 29, 2025 | Lend Me a Soprano | Ken Ludwig | White Rock Players' Club |
| June 12 - August 3, 2025 | Waitress | Book by Jessie Nelson Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Arts Club Theatre @ Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage |
| June 14, 2025 | Blue Horse Opera | Rick Maddocks | Pi Theatre |
| June 26 – August 10, 2025 | The Mousetrap | Agatha Christie | Arts Club Theatre @ Granville Island Stage |
| June 27 - August 15, 2025 | Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman and book by David Greig | Theatre Under the Stars @ Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park |
| July 28 - August 16, 2025 | Legally Blonde | Theatre Under the Stars @ Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park | |
| Aug 6 - 10, 2025 | A Year With Frog and Toad | Music by Robert Reale, Book and Lyrics by William Reale | White Rock Players' Club |
| August 20 - September 14, 2025 | Disney’s The Lion King | Broadway Across Canada @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre |