Theatre season almost never stops in Toronto. This weekend is no different. Take a look at my personal picks of productions currently on-stage around town — all of which are relevant, poignant, and timely. READ MORE
For their final show after a very successful 2016 season, Seven Siblings Theatre is pleased to present Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s most violent and bloody play. Not seen in Toronto since CanStage’s 2014 production in High Park, Titus Andronicus is a story of revenge, betrayal, murder, lust, duty and honour. READ MORE
Toronto’s One Little Goat Theatre Company has been awarded an Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant to perform the company’s first play for young audiences in 40 Model Schools for Inner Cities. The company makes its theatre-for-young-audiences debut with PLAY: A (Mini) History of Theatre for Kids, a new work written and directed by Artistic Director Adam Seelig. READ MORE
Opera and absurdist theatre come together in All But Gone – A Beckett Rhapsody, a groundbreaking musical exploration of the short plays of Samuel Beckett brought to us by Necessary Angel Theatre Company. READ MORE
Pleiades Theatre, in co-production with Théâtre français de Toronto, presents the Toronto premiere of The (Post) Mistress (in English, from October 25 to November 6) known in French as Zesty Gopher s’est fait écraser par un frigo (from October 12 to 23), the latest musical by Canada’s acclaimed First Nations’ playwright, Tomson Highway. READ MORE
For two weeks, the RUTAS panamericanas International Performing Arts Festival takes over Daniels Spectrum, from October 5–16, featuring over a dozen Canadian, Indigenous, and Latin American groups, with performances, master classes, cabarets, concerts, film and a multi-day conference on the intersections of performance and human rights. READ MORE
After years spent under copyright, Aldous Huxley’s enduring classic Brave New World will come to life on a Canadian stage for the first time in decades. Produced by Litmus Theatre and Kabin and with the support of Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM), Brave New World previews September 27-28, opens September 29 and runs until October 16, 2016. READ MORE
Imani Enterprises presents the Toronto premiere of She Said/He Said, created and directed by award-winning artist Anne-Marie Woods (aka Amani). She Said/He Said is a play where spoken word, theatre, conflict and comedy join hands for a tragi-comic and complex look at relationships. READ MORE
When the words missing and murdered, truth and reconciliation, occupation and resistance are everywhere, how do two Mohawk women stand their ground? Two Indians is a darkly comedic look at the landscape of being Indigenous. READ MORE
