section_path: Arts and culture/Theatre, dance, film and television/Theatre
section_name: Theatre
paragraph_text: Theatre
  
  Prominent theatre companies in Vancouver include the Arts Club Theatre Company, which operates three venues, including one on Granville Island, and Bard on the Beach, a large summer Shakespeare festival. Smaller professional companies include Touchstone Theatre, the Cultch, Pacific Theatre, and Firehall Arts Centre. Non-professional theatre organizations include United Players and Metro Theatre, and Theatre Under the Stars, which produces musicals in the summer at Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park. Annual festivals held in Vancouver include the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in January and the Vancouver Fringe Festival in September.
  
  The Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company operated for fifty years, ending in March 2012.