A Fine Balance – Crow’s Theatre Rohinton Mistry’s beloved novel exploring resilience and injustice during India’s 1975 Emergency comes to life in a new stage adaptation. In a cramped Bombay apartment turned illegal garment factory, four unlikely companions are thrown together. As the political crisis deepens and the country reels under authoritarian crackdown, this fragile…
Kainchee Lagaa + Jhooti: The Begging Brown Bitch Plays – House of Beida Inc and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre The Begging Brown Bitch Plays are about lying, sex, and rebirthing oneself: over and over and over again. Zaiba Baig, Peabody Award-winning co-creator of CBC/Max/Sphere Media’s Sort Of, explores deception, desire, and family fractured by…
The Surrogate – Here For Now Theatre in Association with Crow’s Theatre, House and Body, and b current Performing Arts From award-winning author, Mohsin Zaidi (A Dutiful Boy), comes a gripping debut drama that explodes the notions of contemporary parenthood. Jake and Sameer have spent years preparing for this moment—the birth of their first child.…
You, Always – Canadian Stage In the wake of shocking news, sisters Liz and Delia unravel a lifetime of memories, traveling across space and time to trace the push and pull of their relationship over their fifty-year shared history with humour, nuance, and candor. You, Always is an ode to sisterhood – to the brutal…
Company – Talk Is Free Theatre Winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Lyrics and Best Book, Company follows a bachelor named Bobby who is approaching his 35th birthday and has mixed feelings about the idea of getting married. Over the course of a series of dinners, drinks and even a wedding, his…
benu – Watah Theatre and The Theatre Centre In the second play, benu, Sekesu Sankofa, Mudgu’s offspring, battles postpartum depression while navigating the alienation, invisibility and abuse Black womyn experience in the healthcare system. September 30 – October 5, also October 11 and 12 (Marathon Weekend) Franco Boni Theatre at The Theatre Centre – 1115…
Bachelor Man – Renaissance Canadian Theatre On July 1st, 1929, Toronto Chinatown teahouse owner, John, greets an extraordinary day. John left his wife in China. So did Grandad. Six men and the two women who enter their lives, grapple with the 6th anniversary of the Exclusion Act, the immigration act that prevented the wives and…
The Rules of Playing Risk – Here For Now Theatre Garfield Lyons is quite possibly the grouchiest man in Canada. And now he’s stuck in his remote rural cottage recovering from a heart attack under the eye of a grimly observant nurse. Just when he’s positive things can’t get any worse, a letter arrives announcing…
June is always the calm before the storm in the theatre world; the major companies are wrapping up their seasons, and we all get prepped for the Fringe Festival in July. I’ve still been able to catch some incredible shows this month and I can’t wait to share them all with you! After the Rain…
April once again proved to be an exceptionally busy month, and May is likewise shaping up to be full of fabulous things to see! With a long weekend in the mix, there’s even more time to get out and see some theatre! Wicked Nix – Young People’s Theatre In the world of the fairies, Nix…
A View from the Box 