Openings & Closings – Week of May 22
OPENINGS
These are the shows that are opening the week of May 22, 2017.
TUESDAY, MAY 23
I DID IT MY WAY IN YIDDISH (IN ENGLISH), Smouldering Masterpiece Pdns/Filler Up!
A musical journey around the world. New Zealand’s only Jewish comic will entertain you with an evening of stories and songs you’ll never ever forget.
At Factory Studio Theatre, closes May 28
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24
SITUATIONAL ANARCHY, Pandemic Theatre
For the past thirteen years, Graham Isador has been in an on again/off again relationship with transgender rockstar Laura Jane Grace. The relationship is characterized by two main factors: 1. Laura Jane Grace is the lead singer, lyricist, and front woman for the punk rock band Against Me. 2. Laura Jane Grace does not know that Graham exists.
At Stop, Drop, and Roll (Located Above Rancho Relaxo), closes June 3
THURSDAY, MAY 25
SAINT JOAN, Shaw Festival
At the centre of this play is the most remarkable teenage girl in history. But who is she? The divinely-inspired saviour of France? A dangerously clever charlatan? Or a pathetically deluded country girl? It all depends on your point of view.Whatever she is, eventually Joan is bound to become an embarrassment to the male-dominated world she has turned upside-down. And then what?
At the Shaw Festival, closes October 15
SOULO THEATRE FESTIVAL, SoulOTheatre
An opportunity to see the best from Canadian solo performers and a chance to learn how to do it yourself.
At Red Sandcastle Theatre, ends May 28
FRIDAY, MAY 26
BAD JEWS, Koffler Centre of the Arts
After the death of their beloved grandfather, three cousins gather in a cramped Manhattan apartment and fight over a precious family heirloom, learning there is much more at stake than who gets what.
At the Small World Music Centre, closes June 4
THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III, Shaw Festival
A play is about the real men and women behind the icons we create. King George III may have been anointed by God, but when he starts to lose control of his speech and his bodily functions, it’s clear that he’s all too human.
At the Shaw Festival, closes October 15
SATURDAY, MAY 27
1837: THE FARMERS’ REVOLT, Shaw Festival
A handful of immigrant farmers have been struggling for years to turn Upper Canada’s forests into farmland; now they are told that their land has been dished out to government cronies. With William Lyon Mackenzie as their leader, a band of desperate men and women march down Toronto’s Yonge Street.
At the Shaw Festival, closes October 8
ME AND MY GIRL, Shaw Festival
This delightful comic romp from the thirties follows the fortunes of Bill Snibson, a proud Cockney who is amazed to learn that he’s actually the fourteenth Earl of Hareford. But if he wants to claim his title, it looks as if he will have to shed his old life—and love.
At the Shaw Festival, closes October 15
PORGY & BESS IN CONCERT, Soulpepper
The Gershwins blended folk tunes with classical opera to create what has become one of the most enduring works of the 20th century. The stories behind this legendary work, and the iconic songwriting of the Gershwins and their contemporaries, are brought to life.
At the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, closes June 3
CLOSINGS
These are the shows that are closing the week of May 22, 2017.
SUNDAY, MAY 28
CAESAR, Wolf Manor Theatre Collective
A Shakespearean epic with contemporary significance, where five actors take on over forty roles to put the thirty-three wounds into one ruler.
At Kensington Hall
THE BOY AND THE MOON, Crows Theatre
Based on Globe and Mail journalist Ian Brown’s candid and moving memoir of raising his son Walker, this show captures the journey of a couple raising a child with profound disabilities caused by a rare genetic disorder.
At Streetcar Crowsnest
DOM JUAN, Théatre français de Toronto
Dom Juan doesn’t want to be a son. He doesn’t want to be a spouse. He doesn’t want to be a master. He doesn’t want to be a hypocrite. Dom Juan wants to be free to seduce women non-stop—and especially—without limits, without worrying about the consequences.
At the Berkeley Street Theatre – Upstairs (in French with English subtitles)
I DID IT MY WAY IN YIDDISH (IN ENGLISH), Smouldering Masterpiece Pdns/Filler Up!
A musical journey around the world. New Zealand’s only Jewish comic will entertain you with an evening of stories and songs you’ll never ever forget.
At Factory Studio Theatre
MIDSUMMER (A PLAY WITH SONGS), Tarragon Theatre
Bob’s a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city’s underworld. Helena’s a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people’s husbands. She’s totally out of his league. He’s not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they do.
At Tarragon Theatre
SOULO THEATRE FESTIVAL, SoulOTheatre
An opportunity to see the best from Canadian solo performers and a chance to learn how to do it yourself.
At Red Sandcastle Theatre
STRANGERS, BABIES, Theatre PANIK
Witness the mystery of May, a woman desperately trying to leave her past behind. As you physically follow the action from scene to scene, sometimes finding yourself in an apartment, sometimes “peeping” into a motel room, you will meet each of the men in May’s life and piece together the clues that justify her bid for freedom.
At the Artscape Sandbox
iPhoto caption: Vancouver’s Third Beach. Photos courtesy of Sarah Afful
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