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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Ann-Marie MacDonald's Governor General鈥檚 Award-winning play about bucking convention, opens Friday at the Roxy Theatre.

Our arts reporter's top picks for the week ahead: Joy of Life Festival brings fun and fiddle; Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat lights up the stage; and Ensemble Laude mixes baroque and contemporary music.

A four-week series designed to showcase works either entirely new or new to Victoria debuts this week.

Marie Metaphor Specht will serve as Victoria鈥檚 new poet laureate and Irena Datcu-Romano as Victoria鈥檚 youth poet laureate

VANCOUVER 鈥� Actor Pedro Pascal hasn't started filming in Vancouver yet on the second season of his smash HBO hit "The Last of Us," but the city library is already matching him up with its branches.

During her multimedia presentation, Improbable Ascent, paraclimber Maureen Beck will go into detail about her first big alpine expedition in 2018, which brought her to Nahanni National Park in Northwest Territories.

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Movies, new TV shows, and final seasons.

The acting in The Belfry Theatre's Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is uniformly strong, the music is played and sung with precision and verve.