Local Arts

It's a week before showtime and Theatrix artistic director Deb Solberg is without a male character and two dogs for her musical Legally Blonde.

The theme of "drawing" continues in the Tri-Cities this summer with another display highlighting the medium, opening next week. Threesome: Drawings - by Yukman Lai, Harold Ma and Arthur Shu-Ren Cheng - will run from July 19 to Aug.

Gabriel Pietrzak doesn't look like your average Catholic high school product. The 17-year-old recent graduate of Archbishop Carney secondary has stretched piercings in both ear lobes, a tattoo on his arm and a ring on below his lip.

Take a peak at private Tri-City gardens, view original art and hear live music Sunday during the first annual Art in the Garden Tour. Organized by the Port Moody Arts Centre Society, the self-guided tour runs 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Port Coquitlam's summer music series continues this weekend with shows by Tri-City acts Doug Rolling and Sister Says as well as Hilary Grist, the winner of last year's Peak Performance Project prize.

Two Tri-City young "triple threats" will perform in Tony award-winning plays - set a century ago - at Stanley Park's Malkin Bowl this summer as part of Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS).

Every week for 35 years, Coquitlam's Suite E Life Drawing Group has been putting graphite pencil or charcoal to paper as it interprets unclothed professional models.

Departures, the 2009 Academy Award-winning film for best foreign picture, will be shown next Friday at Port Moody's Inlet Theatre.

Ashley Wright won't have much time to relax this summer. The Port Coquitlam native is not just playing the lead character of Sir John Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor , he'll also be portraying the Earl of Salisbury in King John .

Hundreds of families gathered at Coquitlam's Town Centre Park on Canada Day to hear the sounds of Cindy Sea Horse and Connecting the Dots .