Openings & Closings – Week of January 16
OPENINGS
These are the shows that are opening in Toronto the week of January 16, 2017.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17
ALIEN CREATURE, Theatre Passe Muraille
As poet Gwendolyn MacEwen reflects on forty-six years of addiction, artistry, and love, she sparks fire from her hands and pulls her heart from her chest. She is trying to be seen, not to disappear.
At Theatre Passe Muraille, closes February 5
THE AUDIENCE, Mirvish Productions
Head into the private chambers of Queen Elizabeth II as she meets with each of her Prime Ministers through her sixty-year reign.
At the Royal Alexander Theatre, closes February 26
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18
EMPIRE OF THE SON, Factory Theatre
A one-man show that tells the dynamic story of an emotionally distant father, taking us from the ashes of Hiroshima to swinging 1960s London.
At Factory Theatre, closes January 29
UNHOLY, Nightwood Theatre
Four female panelists—a progressive Muslim lawyer, an Orthodox Jewish spiritual leader, an excommunicated nun, and a lesbian atheist pundit—face off in a wild, whip-smart public debate about religion and misogyny.
At Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, closes January 29
THE WEDDING PARTY, Crow’s Theatre
A comedy about two families, a wedding, mistaken identities, and love, love, love.
At Crow’s Theatre, closes February 11
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20
THE GUT GIRLS, Alumnae Theatre
Follow the lives of the brash and proud working-class gut girls. When the gutting sheds are shut and their way of life disappears, the girls must try and find a place in the new world order of late Victorian London.
At the Alumnae Theatre, closes February 4
THE WINTER’S TALE, Groundling Theatre
The chronicle of the descent of Leontes, King of Sicilia into a world of jealousy, murder, and conspiracy when he falsely accuses his queen Hermione of an infidelity with his oldest friend Polixenes.
At the Winter Garden Theatre, closes February 18
CLOSINGS
These are the shows that are closing in Toronto the week of January 16, 2017.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21
THE MAGIC HOUR, Theatre Centre/Jess Dobkin
A solo performance that uses magic to explore trauma and transformation, asking us to consider who we are beyond the stories we tell about our lives.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22
DANNY & THE DEEP BLUE SEA, Wolf Manor Theatre Collective
A snapshot of 1980’s Bronx locals as they swim the waters of mental torment, isolation, love and abuse in a city going under.
iPhoto caption: Vancouver’s Third Beach. Photos courtesy of Sarah Afful
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