Local Arts

If the holiday season finds you up to your eyeballs in stress, they have a cure. Join a group of local comics, authors and celebrities at Festivus for the New West of Us , a free comedy show that’s part of the Anvil Centre’s Winter Celebrations.

The classic Gershwin musical will be onstage at the Massey Theatre April 9 to 25, and holiday ticket deals are on now

ON NOW To Saturday, Dec. 14 Collaborative Alchemy, an exhibition of work by Pierre Leichner, Phyllis Schwartz and Edward Peck, at Amelia Douglas Gallery, Douglas College, 700 Royal Ave. Info: www.douglascollege.ca/artsevents . To Sunday, Dec.

The hometown mother-and-son team of Colleen Winton and Sayer Roberts took time out of rehearsal to talk to the Record about Patrick Street Productions' new musical - and why we all need to see it this Christmas

A winter labyrinth, a Festivus comedy show, a Solstice Pride Ball and non-stop free entertainment are all on offer as part of the Anvil Centre's Winter Celebrations from Dec. 18 to Jan. 5

For Kate Braidwood and Andrew Phoenix, there’s nothing quite like that moment when the audience takes a collective breath and lets it out again in a soft gasp of surprise, an “ooh” of wonder.

ON NOW To Saturday, Dec. 7 Paints n’ Bloom Art Show and Sale, featuring work by Audrey Bakewell and Wendy Mould in support of the Alzheimer Society of B.C., at GardenWorks at Mandeville, 4746 Marine Dr., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. To Sunday, Dec.

Turn out at the Anvil Centre on Dec. 19 for a free, audience-participation reading of A Christmas Carol. Plus, there's hot spiced wine and free cocoa.

The former New Westminster resident is up for Children's Album of the Year, and she's also just released another new album

Trying to survive the holiday season and not sure how you’re going to make it? Laugh it off. Laughter Zone 101 is presenting A Comics’ Survival Guide to Xmas , onstage at Lafflines Comedy Club on Thursday, Dec. 5.