Openings & Closings – Week of April 24
OPENINGS
These are the shows that are opening in Toronto the week of April 24, 2017.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26
CRASH, Soulpepper
After the loss of a loved one, a woman must face the shattering memories of a past trauma. CRASH is the fractured unraveling of memory; blending projections, myth, and dance into a riveting narrative about family, faith and love.
At the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, closes April 29
ENDINGS, Canadian Stage (Spotlight: Australia)
In this poetic audio-visual masterpiece, acclaimed performance maker Tamara Saulwick employs portable turntables, reel-to-reel tape players and live performance in a moving meditation on cycles and the ending of things.
At the Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs, closes April 30
MEETING, Canadian Stage (Spotlight: Australia)
A visually arresting duet for man and machine, pairing the compulsive, multi-award winning choreography of Antony Hamilton with the obsessive, highly-original instrument-making of Alisdair Macindoe.
At the Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs, closes April 30
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, closes May 28
STRICTLY BALLROOM THE MUSICAL, Mirvish Productions
A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
At Princess of Wales Theatre, closes June 25
SUNDAY, APRIL 30
SHAKESBEERS SHOWDOWN – VOLUME 6, Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Collective
Toronto’s hottest indie Shakespeare companies will face off in a battle of winner-takes-all, loser-drinks-most, as contestants cold-read scenes from Shakespeare’s notoriously-hard-to-read First Folio.
At 918 Bathurst Street, one night only
CLOSINGS
These are the shows that are closing in Toronto the week of April 24, 2017.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26
THE DRAUPADI PROJECT, Why Not Theatre (RISER Project)
The spirit of Draupadi, an important feminist icon, is channeled through the character of a nineteen-year-old girl confined in a cell, wrestling with the voices in her head and grappling with the status of women in today’s society.
At the Theatre Centre
PEARLE HARBOUR’S CHAUTAUQUA, Why Not Theatre (RISER Project)
American World-Wartime gal Pearle Harbour, Toronto’s most cerebral drag queen, is literally pitching her tent in the Theatre Centre for a show that’s part revival, part cabaret, part drag and part salvation.
At the Theatre Centre, closes April 26
SATURDAY, APRIL 29
CENTURY SONG, Nightwood Theatre/Volcano/Moveable Beast Collective Production
Inspired in part by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens, soprano Neema Bickersteth seamlessly melds classical song and movement to inhabit a century of women whose identities are contained within a single performer.
At Streetcar Crowsnest
CRASH, Soulpepper
After the loss of a loved one, a woman must face the shattering memories of a past trauma. CRASH is the fractured unraveling of memory; blending projections, myth, and dance into a riveting narrative about family, faith and love.
At the Young Centre for the Performing Arts
SATURDAY, APRIL 29
PRINCE HAMLET, Why Not Theatre
Not yet two months after the death of his father the King, his mother has remarried and Prince Hamlet struggles to understand the world they live in. The ghost of his father directs Hamlet to avenge his murder, but is that the right thing to do?
At the Theatre Centre
SUNDAY, APRIL 30
ENDINGS, Canadian Stage (Spotlight: Australia)
In this poetic audio-visual masterpiece, acclaimed performance maker Tamara Saulwick employs portable turntables, reel-to-reel tape players and live performance in a moving meditation on cycles and the ending of things.
At the Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs
LITTLE PRETTY AND THE EXCEPTIONAL, Factory Theatre
Two sisters and their father prepare to open a new sari shop in Toronto’s Little India. While pursuing their life-long family dream, they must also exorcise the demons of their past together.
At Factory Theatre Mainspace
MEETING, Canadian Stage (Spotlight: Australia)
A visually arresting duet for man and machine, pairing the compulsive, multi-award winning choreography of Antony Hamilton with the obsessive, highly-original instrument-making of Alisdair Macindoe.
At the Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs
ORPHANS, Coal Mine Theatre
A gritty urban tale that questions morality, loyalty, and family while trying to keep quiet the violence and evil that lurks inside everyone.
At Coal Mine Theatre
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