Studio 58, Langara College
100 West 49th Avenue V5Y 2Z6 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Our friends at the frank theatre company present "Be-Longing: A Collaborative, Digital, Musical Performance" this week, starting Wednesday! Featuring the work of grads Anais West, Susan Miyagishima, Katie Voravong, and Alexandra Lainfiesta. Get your tickets here: https://thefranktheatre.com/be-longing-tickets/ Photo by Kimberly Ho

Yesterday was outgoing AD Kathryn Shaw's last day teaching at Studio 58! Our third term acting students surprised her with a cape "Queen of Studio 58" and card. Thank you Kathryn for 46 years of service and dedication to your students and for developing Studio 58 into the nationally renowned program it has become. All the best for your retirement!

Join us tonight and tomorrow night as our acting and production grads showcase their work! You can watch these solo shows from the comfort of your couchjust click on the Zoom links in the event below. See you in the virtual theatre!

Yesterday was filming day for Theatre: The Play! Due to recent COVID-19 restrictions we won't be doing our little in-house, in-person run this week. Instead, we shot all the scenes yesterday and they'll be edited into a "theatre film" to share online with you on Sunday, Nov 29! Learn more & sign-up to watch (for FREE!) here: https://langara.ca//current-seas/current-2020-theatre.html Set & props by Emerenne Saefkow, costumes by Jack Bumbala & lighting design by Sarah Fett.

Spring 2021! TOMORROWLOVE By Rosamund Small Directed by Shekhar Paleja and Lauren Taylor... Set & Costume Design by Melicia Zaini Lighting Design by Sophie Tang Online in February MONOCEROS A MUSICAL Music and Lyrics by Ben Elliott and Anton Lipovetsky Book by Josh Epstein and Kyle Rideout Adapted from the novel by Suzette Mayr Direction and Dramaturgy by Meg Roe Presented in March Illustrations by Emily Cooper

Did you miss the premiere of THE WATCH, our web series pilot, last night? You've got the rest of the week to watch this hilarious mockumentary featuring our graduating actors and directed by Janin Palahicky!

It's always fun to see what our grads are up to! Anita Rochon and Emelia Symington Fedy of The Chop are currently presenting a new online production, "Pathetic Fallacy", with Rumble Theatre this week. Learn more here: https://rumble.org/

Our 55th season continues with Theatre: The Play, written and directed by Ryan Beil and Mark Chavezlivestreaming on Sunday, Nov 29 at 3 PM (PST). Designed by our final term production students and performed by acting students in their fourth term, Theatre: The Play is a hilarious ode to the art form and is sure to brighten up your winter! Learn more and sign-up to watch (for free!) here: https://langara.ca//current-seas/current-2020-theatre.html

We're thrilled to launch our Audio Play Showcase today! Over the summer, the fantastic Josué Menjivar created a series of fun illustrations for this project. Taking inspiration from these illustrations, our final year students worked with acclaimed playwright Aaron Bushkowsky to develop short scripts. These were then further refined under the guidance of award-winning voice actor and director Colin Murdock to create final audio plays for your listening pleasure! Learn more about the audio plays and listen here: https://langara.ca//current-seas/current-2020-podcast.html

SPRING 2021 ANNOUNCEMENT! We're excited to reveal an imaginative and fresh spring line-up under new Artistic Director, Courtenay Dobbie! Building on a successful fall semester, the spring projects continue to explore new ways of creating theatre during the pandemic. Two large-scale productions will be presented alongside the traditional Risky Nights in an online structure. TOMORROWLOVE, a series of 15 playlets first presented by Toronto’s Outside the March, a company known f...or its immersive and cutting-edge work, will be presented in February in a digital format. A new Canadian musical, MONOCEROS, written and composed by Studio 58 alum, will be presented in March. Learn more here: https://langara.ca/studio-58/current-season/index.html : Emily Cooper Photography

Presenting our Fall 2020 acting and production grads! We're especially proud of their innovation and flexibility over this past year. You can see our production grads' work in Theatre: The Play and listen to our acting grads' audio plays, which will be available on our website from Friday! P.s. Look closely and you may notice a guest "grad"! : : Emily Cooper Photography

We're in good company! Check out Miss604's holiday theatre list and sign-up to watch Theatre: The Play on November 29: https://langara.ca//current-seas/current-2020-theatre.html P.s. If you can't watch on the 29th, the link will be available until Dec 6!

Our final year students have been hard at work in a new medium! Their final project is the result of working with illustrator Josué Menjivar, playwright Aaron Bushkowsky, and director Colin Murdock to create their own audio plays. Inspired by Josué's illustrations, the students wrote their own scripts, recorded and produced them, and are almost ready to share with you. The final pieces will be available at studio58.ca on November 20!