Ah, June. Summer sunshine (maybe) and summer theatre. Musicals, comedies, more musicals and comedies, and a few outliers. June in Vancouver means Bard on the Beach — three shows this year are comedies. And Theatre Under the Stars — two musicals. And the Arts Club’s summer musical. Funnyman Colin Mochrie at the Improv Centre. Theatre in the Country’s musical. A post-apocalyptic musical from Renegade Arts. An embarrassment of musical and comic riches.
Here are my picks for June:
When: To June 22
Where: Jericho Arts Centre
Tickets & Info: $15-$35 at unitedplayers.com
No one is funnier than Oscar Wilde, who here applies his incomparable wit to a fin de siècle tale of political scandal and blackmail. The kind of material the Vancouver Playhouse would once have pr