Entertainment

There are a couple of absolute requirements when it comes to producing West Side Story: there must be a fantastic performer in the role of Puerto Rican Anita, and the choreography has to be terrific.

1. The 39th annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival further solidifies the Birkenstock-infested love-in as one of this city’s premier and most adventurous festivals.

In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello is warned by Iago against jealousy, “the green-eyed monster,” but Iago has already sown the seeds and has been assiduously feeding “the monster” in retaliation for being overlooked for promotion.

Wedding season is in full swing, and what better way to mark the holy institution of marriage than with a gross-out battle of the sexes, with a story culled from a Craigslist ad? The real-life story of Mike and Dave Stangle made them brief Internet s

Surreal takes audiences through back alleys of Gastown

1. Pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance, the 28th annual Dancing on the Edge Festival features more than 30 innovative choreographers and more than 80 dance artists leaping and rolling across local stages July 7 to 16.

Rain, raccoons and giant moths part of the charm of outdoor theatre

Gastown tea house steeped First Nations heritage

1. Meat. It does a body good. Celebrate Canada’s birthday and the fortitude of your intestinal tract when Mamie Taylor’s (251 East Georgia St.) hosts RibFest July 1.

Closeted skeletons never go out of fashion, as Henrik Ibsen’s 1884 play The Wild Duck and Simon Stone’s new brooding film adaptation The Daughter prove.