Tag: Theatre

Denis’ extensive musical career has spanned 30 years as an actor, singer, songwriter and dancer. He appeared in the original productions of “Hair”, “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (Dora Award), “Little Shop of Horrors”, “Indigo”, “A Chorus Line”, “Five Guys Named Moe”, “The Coloured Museum”, and his 1996 Jessie-winning performance in the acclaimed one-man show “Denis Anyone?”. Recent…
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Kathryn Shaw has been the Artistic Director of Studio 58 since 1985. She received her B.A. in Dramatic Art from Whitman College and an M.F.A. in acting from New York’s Columbia University. For the past 30 years, Ms. Shaw has directed for theatre companies across Canada and has taught acting for professional and community groups…
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Dadye Harvey Rutherford was well known in theatre circles here for well over three decades starting in 1930. She was a leading teacher of elocution, drama and voice and it has been estimated that over 10,000 children passed through her school during her teaching career. For 25 years she produced “The Sun-Ray Review” (or earlier,…
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Director and actor Sydney Risk was born in Vancouver in 1908 and died in 1985. He studied at the University of British Columbia, and acted in the Players Club, succeeding Frederic Wood as director in 1930. In 1933 he went to London to study acting at the Old Vic, under the direction of Sir William…
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Jessie Richardson was an extraordinary individual whose supportive involvement in Vancouver theatre spanned over four decades. She began in the 1930s, in the Vancouver Little Theatre Association, where she acted, directed, and designed costumes. In the mid-50s, she helped to form the children’s touring company Holiday Theatre with Joy Coghill and Myra Benson, which later…
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