Entertainment

Victoria authors A.T. Woodley and Julie Lawson and Salt Spring illustrator Mike Deas are up for awards.

Ballet Victoria's season opens Friday with the first of two performances of Frankenstein at the Royal Theatre.

After the tour launch at the Fanny Bay Community Hall Thursday, The Fretless will perform Friday in Comox at Merville Hall and Saturday in Victoria at the Alix Goolden Performance Hall.

Arts writer Mike Devlin picks his favourite upcoming events, including The Other Side at Nanaimo Art Gallery Oct. 5-Jan. 12.

Upcoming events: View Royal Garden Club event on Saturday; Halloween paddle on Saturday; arts hub open house on Saturday

Darrel J. McLeod, who died last month, was awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for A Season in Chezgh’un

Marketed as everything from “Lessons on Life and Love” to “A Healing Key,” The Piano Teacher opens tonight at the Chemainus Theatre and runs until Oct. 20.

Our Lady Peace is touring to celebrate its 30th anniversary and will hit Victoria’s Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on Feb. 24, 2025.

MusicFest will not take place in 2025 but organizers will work on developing a more sustainable model, according to a statement from the Comox Valley Folk Society board.

Ravenscroft, which opens Thursday at Victoria's Langham Court Theatre, combines slapstick and a few red herrings, among other staples of the murder-mystery genre.