Openings & Closings – Week of April 10
OPENINGS
These are the shows that are opening in Toronto the week of April 10, 2017.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12
ORPHANS, Coal Mine Theatre
A gritty urban tale that questions morality, loyalty, and family while trying to keep quiet the violence and evil that lurks inside everyone.
At Coal Mine Theatre, closes April 30
THE RADIO SHOW – WORLD STAGE REDUX, Harbourfront Centre
An elegy to the Motown and hip-hop stations that were the soundtrack of Kyle Abraham’s youth in Pittsburgh. When these stations abruptly went off the air in 2009, this soundtrack, and the conversation about community that flourished in the gaps between tracks, stopped.
At Harbourfront Centre, closes April 15
THURSDAY, APRIL 13
EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR PICTURE I CRY – WORLD STAGE REDUX, Harbourfront Centre
The story of an art school failure turned garbage man who attempts to create a catalogue of the city’s inhabitants. But this dream is doomed when the artist’s modus operandi—spying through windows and searching through garbage for information—is appropriated by a homicidal maniac who follows behind him, killing all who appear in his masterwork.
At Harbourfront Centre, closes April 15
KAMP (CAMP) – WORLD STAGE REDUX, Harbourfront Centre
A single, unremarkable day in a city purpose-built for the annihilation of the Jewish people. An enormous scale model of Auschwitz fills the stage. It contains overcrowded barracks, a railway track, and a gateway with the infamous slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei,” and is inhabited by thousands of 8cm-tall handmade puppets that represent the prisoners and their executioners at an astonishing ratio of 1 to 10.
At Harbourfront Centre, closes April 16
CLOSINGS
These are the shows that are closing in Toronto the week of April 10, 2017.
SATURDAY, APRIL 15
CRAWLSPACE, Soulpepper
A perfect little coach house turns into a real life nightmare in this comic, Kafkaesque tale about the darker side of home ownership, inspired by true events.
At the Young Centre for the Performing Arts
EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR PICTURE I CRY – WORLD STAGE REDUX, Harbourfront Centre
The story of an art school failure turned garbage man who attempts to create a catalogue of the city’s inhabitants. But this dream is doomed when the artist’s modus operandi—spying through windows and searching through garbage for information—is appropriated by a homicidal maniac who follows behind him, killing all who appear in his masterwork.
At Harbourfront Centre
THE RADIO SHOW – WORLD STAGE REDUX, Harbourfront Centre
An elegy to the Motown and hip-hop stations that were the soundtrack of Kyle Abraham’s youth in Pittsburgh. When these stations abruptly went off the air in 2009, this soundtrack, and the conversation about community that flourished in the gaps between tracks, stopped.
At Harbourfront Centre
TRUE CRIME, Crow’s Theatre/Castleton Massive Production
Clark Rockefeller is a real life conman of the highest order, now serving a near-life sentence in a California State prison. And iconic musician and provocateur Torquil Campbell wants to try him on for size.
At Streetcar Crowsnest
SUNDAY, APRIL 16
887, Ex Machina/Canadian Stage
From his early years growing up in 1960s Quebec amidst the rise of the FLQ, Robert Lepage constructs a life’s worth of stories, questioning the underlying mechanisms and relevance of certain memories.
At the Bluma Appel Theatre
THE BOOK OF MORMON, Mirvish Productions
This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word.
At Princess of Wales Theatre
KAMP (CAMP) – WORLD STAGE REDUX, Harbourfront Centre
A single, unremarkable day in a city purpose-built for the annihilation of the Jewish people. An enormous scale model of Auschwitz fills the stage. It contains overcrowded barracks, a railway track, and a gateway with the infamous slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei,” and is inhabited by thousands of 8cm-tall handmade puppets that represent the prisoners and their executioners at an astonishing ratio of 1 to 10.
At Harbourfront Centre
KISS, Theatre Smash/ARC
Two couples meet for dinner to take their minds off the war raging around them. An unexpected profession of love, an untimely proposal, and one kiss later, one of the foursome lies dead on the floor.
At the Berkeley Street Upstairs Theatre
TOUGH JEWS, Storefront Theatre
Set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and one of the largest riots in Canadian history, this is the story of an immigrant family of would-be criminals and their struggle to rise above their station in a violent, intolerant city.
At Kensington Hall – 56K Kensington Avenue, closes April 16
iPhoto caption: Vancouver’s Third Beach. Photos courtesy of Sarah Afful
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