VMTC

The Vancouver Musical Theatre Calendar

The theatre poster: effective tool or outdated relic?

There’s something about many, if not most, theatre posters that bothers me. They often seem to missing something important: any kind of description of the show in question. Look at any movie poster, on the other hand, and you’re sure to see a pithy summing-up of what’s in store. Some of these have even outlasted […] Read more

Forbidden Broadway spoofs 30 years’ worth of musicals

By Ryan Mooney Playing up the camp of musical theatre has become a “go to” for many shows in recent years. Everything from The Producers to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to Evil Dead seems to have a wink-and-a-nudge homage to the fact that “yes, we’re singing and dancing up here.” The spoofing of artistic forms is […] Read more