See a Met performance from New York beamed live into Coquitlam’s Cineplex theatre on Saturday.
SilverCity (170 Schoolhouse St.) will show The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Verdi’s Otello on Oct. 17 as part of the 10th anniversary of The Met: Live in HD. The show, conducted by maestro — and Montreal native — Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starts at 9:55 a.m. Visit cineplex.com.
IT’S A MYSTERY
Just in time for Halloween comes a ghostly tale directed by a Coquitlam resident.
North Vancouver Community Players will put on The Mystery Plays, a thriller penned by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by Lisa Pope. The production runs Oct. 23 and 24, Oct. 28 to 31 and Nov. 4 to 7 in The Theatre at Hendry Hall (815 East 11th St., North Van.). For tickets at $18/$16, call 604-983-2633 or visit northvanplayers.ca.
EMERGE 15
Two Tri-City scribes are featured in the next issue of emerge 15, the annual anthology by The Writer’s Studio.
The work, which will launch Thursday at the Harbour Centre SFU campus, will include words from Peggi Peacock and Brittany Bjorndal.
The SFU anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction is edited by Matt Rader.
SENIORS DRAMA
Are you 55 and better with a thespian calling? Coquitlam’s Dogwood Drama Club is looking for you to lend your acting skills for its next show.
The club, which meets Monday and Thursday afternoons at Dogwood Pavilion (624 Poirier St.), will present its fall play The Dearly Undeparted on Nov. 29 and Dec. 1 and 3. Backstage positions — setting up the stage, costumes, makeup, etc. — also need to be filled. Call Don at 604-526-2345 to volunteer.
