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Welcome to the jungle! Get ready to howl for April O’Peel Productions‘ ANIMAL ATTRACTION: A Wild Night of Burlesque on Saturday, June 17. This wild night showcases the beast of Vancouver burlesque in an uncaged experience full of free-range striptease. Featuring feral femmes and carnal creatures, you won’t want to miss a second of this animal spank-tuary. Saturday, June 17 Doors … Read more

Start. Your. Engines! The Rio Theatre is pleased to welcome “RuPaul’s Drag Race” superstars Brooke Lynn Hytes and Jimbo live onstage to host a viewing party of the latest episode of “Drag Race All Stars”. The Queens will be live and in the house, so expect some fierce performances, a few surprises, and maybe the … Read more

The East Van Laugh RioT Presents The Crossword Show with Zach Sherwin “@zachsherwin’s crossword show brings all the best things together: comedy, crosswords, and hip hop.” (Natalie Portman) The Crossword Show is a live comedy performance hosted by Zach Sherwin (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “Epic Rap Battles of History”) in which a panel of guest entertainers solves … Read more

East Van Laugh RioT Presented by Charlie Demers and Friends The Rio Theatre‘s regular live comedy night featuring Vancouver’s top stand-up comedians from CBC, Netflix, Just For Laughs and more returns on Friday, June 2. (Because we could all use a good laugh…) Friday, June 2 Featuring Erica Sigurdson & Simon King With special guests … Read more

Join us at the Rio Theatre on Saturday, July 22 for Brazilian comedian Diogo Portugal. Saturday, July 22 Doors 6:00 pm | Show 7:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Advance tickets HERE Please note: This performance is in Portuguese. Neste show de Stand Up, com textos totalmente novos e atuais, … Read more

Join the Lavender Society in their weirdest, wackiest cabaret yet! The Odd Ball is a cabaret of curiosities, oddities and peculiarities- sure to leave you saying, “How queer! How wonderful! Huzzah!”  In a celebration of all things bizarre, a group eccentric “experts of the unusual” will dazzle with burlesque, drag, circus and variety. The strangest … Read more

That’s no moon! THE NABOO REVUE celebrates the stories and Star Wars characters you know and love (and secretly Google sexy fan art of in your spare time) with energetic dancing, comedy, yub nubs, and cheeky satire created by artists as nerdy as you are. The Geekenders’ popular nerdlesque spectaculars combine the fun and irreverence … Read more

The Vanimation Film Festival is widely known around the globe as the world’s best animation film festival, and in our inaugural year we are excited to celebrate and promote the films created right here by Vancouver’s animation community. From student projects to the major studios, hand drawn to computer generated. LIVE! For one night only, … Read more

You Can! Productions Presents Rodrigo Marques: Paz de Darwin Critical and public success, recifense brings laughter to the world. Possessing a unique talent, Rodrigo Marques, from Recife, accumulates in his curriculum several works that accredit him as one of the main names of humor in Brazil. Despite his journalist degree, Rodrigo has been in Stand … Read more

MRG Presents Olan Rogers Olan has been called a relentlessly unconventional storyteller who has been making millions laugh for over a decade. The Tennessee Wonder Child first popped onto the scene with the cult phenomenon sketch comedy group “Balloonshop” and then transitioned to a solo career where he slowly built a passionate following of millions … Read more