Openings & Closings – Week of March 27
OPENINGS
These are the shows that are opening in Toronto the week of March 27, 2017.
TUESDAY, MARCH 28
OUR TOWN, Theatre Rusticle
The story of daily life, love, marriage, and death in the town of Grover’s Corners. Physicality meets timeless questions about how place defines us, how we live, how we love, and our place in this big universe.
At Buddies in Bad Times, closes April 2
S H E E T S, Veritas Theatre
Explore the theme of intimacy in it’s many forms through the experiences of various inhabitants of a single hotel room, which inspires and allows its guests their irrevocable moments of truth.
At the Theatre Centre, closes April 9
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29
JACK CHARLES V THE CROWN, Canadian Stage (Spotlight: Australia)
Actor/musician/potter/Aboriginal elder Uncle Jack Charles was born out of Australia’s Stolen Generation—Aboriginal children torn from their families. Now in his 70s, and no longer caught in a cycle of addiction, crime, and doing time, Uncle Jack takes to the stage to testify.
At the Berkeley Street Downstairs Theatre, closes April 8
THURSDAY, MARCH 30
THE EMANCIPATION OF MS. LOVELY, Emancipation Arts
In this hilarious and evocative tale we meet Ms. Lovely at different stages in her life as she struggles with her understanding of herself as a Black woman and awakens to her sexual identity as mirrored through popular culture.
At Streetcar Crowsnest, closes April 8
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, closes April 16
THE SEER, commonplacetheatre
The story of a man consumed by his hunt for revenge, and a woman compelled by guilt to lead him. Their adventure unfolds in turns tender and gruesome, but remains gripping throughout.
At The Commons (by Brick & Mortar), 587A College Street, closes April 8
FRIDAY, MARCH 31
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
CLOSINGS
These are the shows that are closing in Toronto the week of March 27, 2017.
SATURDAY, APRIL 1
THE ORANGE DOT, Theatrefront
Two city workers are called to take down a large tree blighted with termites. The vehicle they’re meant to use is stuck in traffic, so they are left waiting… armed with their cellphones, a stethoscope, an ancient arrowhead, a soupçon of boredom, and a large dose of existential dread about what the world is coming to.
At Streetcar Crowsnest
SUNDAY, APRIL 2
INFINITY, Tarragon Theatre
How does a new Theory of Time change everything we know about ourselves? A musician, a mathematician, and a theoretical physicist together learn that love and time are connected in ways they couldn’t have imagined.
At Tarragon Theatre
OUR TOWN, Theatre Rusticle
The story of daily life, love, marriage, and death in the town of Grover’s Corners. Physicality meets timeless questions about how place defines us, how we live, how we love, and our place in this big universe.
At Buddies in Bad Times
SLIP, Circlesnake Productions
A woman found dead on the floor of an abandoned apartment. Debris strewn everywhere, and a symbol carved onto her arm. Two detectives try to uncover the story of her death, but the further they dig the more labyrinthine it becomes.
At Tarragon Workspace
STUPIDHEAD!, Theatre Passe Muraille
A comedy musical about having dyslexia, and about how being a human is really embarrassing… like all of the time.
At Theatre Passe Muraille
iPhoto caption: Vancouver’s Third Beach. Photos courtesy of Sarah Afful
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