THEATRE

Fun Home

This Tony Award-nominated coming-of-age musical features a protagonist, Alison, at three different stages in life — as a child, a college student and an adult — revealing memories of her uniquely dysfunctional family along the way. An Arts Club Theatre Company production. • Granville Island Stage, Feb. 8-March 10 • From $29 artsclub.com

Broken Tailbone

Join celebrated writer and performer Carmen Aguirre on the dance floor and be transported to Latin dance halls with vivid stories of one of Canada’s most unique milieus. • The Cultch Historic Theatre, 1895 Venables St., Feb. 13-24 • $35 thecultch.com

Fool for Love

In a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, two transient lovers unearth secrets of their disturbing past. Reality and dreams collide as Eddie and May fight for a love that they can’t live with, or without. • The Shop Theatre, 3030 E. Broadway, Feb. 14-24, $25 theatrewire.com

Salt-Water Moon

It’s 1926 and every day the villages of Newfoundland are being abandoned by their young for a new life in the big city. But eighteen year-old Jacob Mercer has come home to Coley’s Point to win back his former sweetheart Mary Snow, who he abruptly left over a year ago. By the light of a moon-filled night, the former lovers meet to confront their past choices and contemplate a possible future together. • Gateway Theatre, Richmond • Feb. 15-24, gatewaytheatre.com

Topdog/Underdog

African-American brothers Lincoln and Booth share a seedy, one-room apartment and are looking for easy money in cards. Things are tight and only get tighter when their competition grows and their lies exceed their truths. When there isn’t room for both to succeed, who will come out on top? Presented by the Arts Club Theatre Company. • Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre, until Feb. 11, from $29 artsclub.com

Merrily We Roll Along

This traditional showbiz musical is turned on its head in this thrilling and compelling Broadway fable about friendship, compromise, and the high price of success. Presented by the United Players. • Jericho Arts Centre, until Feb. 11, $33-$38 unitedplayers.com

Murder by the Book

A glimpse into a witty murder plot gone awry in the English flat of famous writer and critic Selwyn Piper who crosses swords with his volatile, estranged wife Imogen. • Metro Theatre, until Feb. 10, $25/$22 metrotheatre.com

Jitters

Four actors, a director, a playwright, and one grand dream of Broadway-bound success. Can this motley crew set aside their egos and anxieties in order to make it to the big time? Presented by the Arts Club Theatre Company. • Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, until Feb. 25, from $29 artsclub.com

Sleeping Beauty Dreams

Mexico’s famed Marionetas de la Esquina present Amaranta Leyva’s whimsical and enchanting puppet show. • Feb. 9: Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, pay-whatyou-can, evergreenculturalcentre.ca | Feb. 10, 2 p.m.: Surrey Arts Centre, $15, 604-501-5566

The Foreigner

The Langley Players’ winter play is a comedy that will whisk audiences away to the warmth of a fishing lodge in rural Georgia where they will find an array of entertaining characters, including one who pretends to be a ‘foreigner’ and doesn’t speak any English • Langley Playhouse, 4307 200th St., until Feb. 24, $15 langleyplayers.com

The Garage Sale

Phil, a middle-aged father, is frustrated with the direction his life has taken. But ... he has a plan — sell everything and move his wife and two teenagers to the desert. Unfortunately he has neglected to mention this to his family. • Surrey Little Theatre, until Feb. 24, $15/$17 surreylittletheatre.com

Doubt, A Parable

Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, is shaken to her moral core when she suspects that young Father Flynn is having an inappropriate relationship with a male student. Presented by Gallery 7 Theatre. • Abbotsford Community Arts Addition, until Feb. 10, $15-$25 gallery7theatre.com

Ruined

Mama Nadi’s bar both protects and profits off the bodies of the women who have become casualties of a long and brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She ensures survival by catering to both sides of the conflict, but how long can she keep the war outside her walls? • Pacific Theatre, until Feb. 17, $20-$36.50 pacifictheatre.org

SH*T

Named Australia’s most unapologetic playwright, Patricia Cornelius’ play examines the lives of three incarcerated underclass women in a manner unseen on most theatre stages. • Firehall Arts Centre, until Feb. 10, from $20 firehallartscentre.ca

Drinking Habits

Two nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing Convent have been secretly making wine to keep their convent open. Everything starts to go wrong when two snooping reporters, Paul and Sally, show up and go undercover in the convent as a nun and priest. Presented by the Vagabond Players. • The Bernie Legge Theatre, New West, until Feb. 25, $12-$17 vagabondplayers.ca

The Skin of our Teeth

Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy is as pertinent today as when it was written during the Second World War, celebrating humanity’s resilience in the face of climate change, floods, fire, plague and war. Presented by Studio 58. • Langara College, 100 W. 49th Ave., until Feb. 18, $20-$25 studio58.ca

Legally Blonde

Align Entertainment presents this hilarious, romantic hit musical based on the 2001 hit film. • Michael J. Fox Theatre, Burnaby, until Feb. 17, $27-$39, alignentertainment.ca/tickets

Sylvia

When Greg stumbles on a homeless mutt in the park, it’s love at first sight, but when he brings her home, it shakes up his life, his job and his marriage. Presented by the North Vancouver Community Players. • Theatre at Hendry Hall, North Van, until Feb. 17, $18/$16 northvanplayers.ca

Misery: Arts Club on Tour

Stephen King’s chilling thriller. • Feb. 8: The ACT, Maple Ridge • 604-687-1644, artsclub.com

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Star-crossed lovers, graceful fairies courtly royals and country bumpkins come together for a night of fantasy and romantic comedy in one of the Bard’s most beloved works. An Exit 22 Company Production. • BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts, Capilano University, until Feb. 10 • $10-$22 capilanou.ca/blueshorefinancialcentre

Jabberwocky

The Old Trout Puppet Workshop’s brand new puppet extravaganza. Using Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky as the impetus to examine the things that keep us all awake at night, the Trouts dive deep into the abyss of our own frailty. • York Theatre, until Feb. 17, from $22 thecultch. com

Motown the Musical

Featuring more than 40 classic hits such as My Girl and Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Broadway Across Canada’s production tells the story behind the hits as the whole Motown family fight against the odds to create the soundtrack of change in America. • Queen Elizabeth Theatre, until Feb. 11, from $30.50 ticketmaster.ca

The House of Yes

This dark comedy follows a damaged family when the introduction of a stranger forces its secrets to crawl into the light. • Studio 1398, Granville Island, until Feb. 11, $20 yescollectiveplays.eventbrite.ca

Don’t Dress For Dinner

A sex farce sequel to Boeing Boeing. Bernard and Robert are back! Now married, Bernard has not given up his swinging lifestyle. Hoping to spend a romantic weekend with his mistress, he tries to send his wife, Jacqueline, to her sick mother’s, under the pretence that he’s going to have a boy’s weekend with his pal, Robert. • Coast Capital Playhouse, White Rock, until Feb. 24, $10-$22 whiterockplayers.ca

My Funny Valentine

Zee Zee Theatre commemorates their 10th anniversary with a remount of this critically-acclaimed, award-winning play. The show was created in response to the tragic 2008 murder of Lawrence King, a 15-year-old shot by his male classmate after asking him to be his valentine. • Scotiabank Dance Centre, until Feb. 18, $27-$32, theatrewire.com

No Foreigners

Through live performance and a micro-to-macro camera apparatus, this show considers Chinese shopping malls as racialized spaces of cultural creation and clash. • The Cultch Vancity Culture Lab, until Feb. 17, $27 thecultch.com