Jo Ledingham

Wakey, Wakey at Pacific Theatre until November 2 is amazingly uplifting, given that the main character is either dying or newly dead. Very funny. Actor Craig Erickson makes it all happen. www.joledingham.ca

Vacant Lot | Jo Ledingham Firehall Arts Centre to October 25, 2025 Based on the Japanese play Sarachi (Vacant Lot), by contemporary Japanese theatre artist Shogo Ota, Vacant Lot is a hybrid dance/theatre piece at the Firehall ...

Vacant Lot at the Firehall to October 25. It's a hybrid dance/theatre piece, very meditative, metaphoric and zen. joledingham.ca/vacant-lot/

On now in the Historic Theatre at the Cultch is Carmen Aguirre's new play Fire Never Dies: The Tina Madotti Project. joledingham.ca/fire-never-d...

My website - joledingham.ca - has been down for several days so reviews of Fire Never Dies and Wakey Wakey are still in the works. Don't forget that Zoo Story is on now at Studio 16. Still time to catch the 2:30 matinee today.

A Doll's House | Jo Ledingham Stanley BFL Canada Stage to October 5, 2025 A Doll’s House is one of the most frequently produced plays worldwide. Amy Herzog’s adaptation was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play and...

A Doll's House is one of the most frequently produced plays worldwide but this Arts Club production of Amy Herzog's adaptation is a disappoinment. joledingham.ca/a-dolls-hous...

Metamorphoses | Jo Ledingham Jericho Arts Centre to September 28, 2025 Metamorphoses is an ancient poem given new life by a trio of emerging directors, highly creative designers and a fresh young cast. Ovid without the dust of th...

United Players opens its 2025-2026 season with Ovid's Metamorphoses, given a new look by Mary Zimmerman, directed by three emerging directors and featuring a cast of fresh young faces. joledingham.ca/metamorphoses/

David C Jones likes making things; I like growing things. Here’s one of my epiphytes in bloom: 9 inches across and fragrant!

Oh yum! Local cauliflowers are just coming in and they are BEAUTIFUL. Usually eat them raw with oil and vinegar and sel de Provence but I know you loved that recipe you tried. I’m gonna give it a whirl! Thanks!

Hey, David, care to share your recipe for roasted cauliflower? I made some yesterday and was less than thrilled.

Legally Blonde The Musical | Jo Ledingham Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park, to August 14, 2025 Theatre Under the Stars, celebrating its 85th season, must be revelling in this warm weather night after night. The cast of Legally Blonde The Musical wi...

Theatre Under the Stars is a truly unique Vancouver experience and this show - Legally Blonde The Musical - is full of singing and dancing and two live dogs! joledingham.ca/legally-blon...

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] | Jo Ledingham Bard on the Beach (Vanier Park) to September 20, 2025 If you’re curious about what’s going on under the tents down at Vanier Park from June 10-September 20, but you hate Shakespeare, this one’s for yo...

Seriously funny is The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] at Bard on the Beach. joledingham.ca/the-complete...

Haha. I do a lot of that. Eat all the snacks and call it dinner!

Haha! I do a lot of that - eat all the snacks and call it dinner!

Much Ado About Nothing | Jo Ledingham Bard on the Beach to September 20, 2025 When director Johnna Wright cast the effervescent Jennifer Lines – she of the riotous tresses and a smile that lights up the whole BMO Mainstage – Wright knew s...

This Bard on the Beach production of Much Ado About Nothing gives you something to think about. joledingham.ca/much-ado-abo...

The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Jo Ledingham Bard on the Beach to September 19, 2025 Director Dean Paul Gibson is having his way with Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona on the BMO Mainstage at Bard on the Beach these evenings. Jacob Leon...

The Two Gentlemen of Verona meet the 1980s with director Dean Paul Gibson's feminist take on Shakespeare's four hundred year old play. Not for purists but it's fun!
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Don't you just hate that? I mean, you got it in five but you could have got it in two or three or four if you had been lucky.

An Ideal Husband | Jo Ledingham Jericho Arts Centre to June 22, 2025 Treat yourself. Go and see this show before it sells out. Playwright Oscar Wilde would have loved this production: elegant, classy, handsome and pretty at the same...

Give yourself a treat. An Ideal Husband is an ideal way to spend an evening. It's at the Jericho Arts Centre until June 22, 2025. joledingham.ca/an-ideal-hus...

Inner Elder | Jo Ledingham Firehall Arts Centre to May 31, 2025 Prepare to be charmed. Michelle Thrush, award-winning Cree writer/ performer, takes you on a personal journey from childhood to grandmotherhood in just one hour of...

Cree writer/performer Michelle Thrush tells us not to take our selves so seriously in Inner Elder. She's a charmer! joledingham.ca/inner-elder/

Here We Go | Jo Ledingham Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) to May 25, 2025 We are born. We die. It’s all a mystery. And there is, if you’re lucky, much joy and lots of laughter along the way. Remarkably, Here We Go is often wryly f...

I loved Here We Go at the PAL Studio. A gentle, meditative look at the end of life . Directed by Kathryn Bracht for Western Gold Theatre, it features a cast of some of Vancouver's finest 'legacy' performers.
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Carousel Theatre's production of Stuart Little runs at the Waterfront Theatre to May 11. It's bound to delight the kids AND the grownups. Tickets from $19 at www.carouseltheatre.ca. Pictured is Katrina Teitz as Stuart Little. Photo: Sarah Race Photography

Dance Nation | Jo Ledingham York Theatre to May 11, 2025 Dance Nation, presented by The Search Party (Vancouver) and masterfully directed by Mindy Parfitt, is a first-rate production of Clare Barron’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist for...

Terrific Search Party production of Dance Nation. Didn't totally fire on all cylinders for me but it serves Clare Barron's play extremely well. joledingham.ca/dance-nation/

Dead Drone | Jo Ledingham Russian Hall (600 Campbell Avenue) to April 19, 2025 Dave Mott has a lot to say about the state of the world judging from his pre-show remarks on opening night of the world premiere of Dead Drone, Mot...

Read the programme notes before seeing Dead Drone or you will find yourself frustrated. Playwright Dave Mott packs a lot in: subhuman Beeples mashed up with climate crisis lockdown. joledingham.ca/dead-drone/

Beauty and the Beast: My Life | Jo Ledingham Historic Theatre at the Cultch to April 6, 2025 The Cultch invites you to embrace Niall McNeil's distinctive way of expressing himself and find the poetry within it.  I saw it. I embraced it. I found ...

An artist living with Down Syndrome, Niall McNeil takes you into his world with Beauty and the Beast: My Life. Quirky. Whimsical. It's a beauty. joledingham.ca/beauty-and-t...

Behind the Moon | Jo Ledingham Vancity Culture Lab at the Cultch to April 6, 2025 What courage it takes to leave one’s homeland and family behind as Ayub (Praneet Akilla) does in Anosh Irani's Behind the Moon. Zahf Paroo as Jalal...

I was profoundly moved by Behind the Moon, Anosh Irani's new play now on stage at the Cultch. What courage it takes to leave one's homeland and strike out for a new life in a new land. joledingham.ca/behind-the-m...

We Are Boy Band | Jo Ledingham Studio 58 to April 6, 2025 WOW. The performance area explodes with white-on-white performers, busting moves, looking fantastic. Part of the Ensemble, We Are Boy Band. Credit: Moonrider ProductionsRea...

Bright-eyed, bushy-tailed enthusiasm at Studio 58's We Are Boy Band, created, choreographed and directed by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg. To April 6. joledingham.ca/we-are-boy-b...

Really? Good god!

Home Deliveries | Jo Ledingham At Jericho Arts Centre to April 13, 2025 The first forty-five minutes of Home Deliveries went by so fast, I could hardly believe it when the intermission lights came up. I was pretty sure where it was...

High production values. Terrific performances. But Home Deliveries didn't delilver everything I hoped for. joledingham.ca/home-deliver...

How to Disappear Completely | Jo Ledingham The Cultch Historic Theatre to March 22, 2025 I saw the first production of Itai Erdal’s How to Disappear Completely at the 2011 Chutzpah! Festival and I was curious about how the show might have chan...

It's been twenty-four years since lighting designer Itai Erdal's mother died but she lives on through How to Disappear Completely. At the Cultch Historic Theatre to March 22. joledingham.ca/how-to-disap...

By perpetually telling the world that Canada is “broken”, Poilievre invited the vandals in. And here they are. Remember this when you vote in the next federal election. If you don’t, look forward to flying the Stars and Stripes on the 4th of July.

Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer | Jo Ledingham York Theatre to March 16, 2025 Not given to laughing out loud very often in the theatre, I – and everyone else – laughed a lot at playwright/director Kevin Loring’s Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer on ...

We laughed our faces off at Little Red Indian and his Lawyer on opening night. Closes at the York on March 16. joledingham.ca/little-red-w...