Spring has sprung in Toronto, and so has theatre season! There are only a few new shows opening this week, but combined with the ongoing selections, there are so many fresh choices! To help you in your decision-making is our managing editor Wayne, highlighting his most anticipated shows in red text. Check them out below the cut:
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Anusree Roy’s play takes on the taboo of mental illness in Toronto’s South Asian communityCurrently playing at the Factory Mainspace, Little Pretty and The Exceptional is the latest installment of Factory Theatre’s generally brilliant Beyond the Great White North season. While the production has some seriously good moments, it is still one of the weaker shows I’ve seen this season.
Continue reading Little Pretty and The Exceptional (Factory Theatre)
The Clean House is comedy that is “polished”, “superb”, and “bitingly funny” on stage in TorontoAfter seeing the opening night performance of Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House, now playing at Alumnae Theatre, my companion put too much hot sauce on her Pad Thai. Tears streaming down her face, she assured me, “I’m crying, but I’m happy.” After a moment of careful consideration, she continued, “like the play.” It was a fitting statement, as The Clean House is a bitingly funny comedy with a wounded, glorious heart underneath; it’s a wonderfully, startlingly human play about weird love, family, devotion, class, and the funniest joke in the world.
Continue reading Review: The Clean House (Alumnae Theatre Company)
True Crime delves into the mind of a convicted murderer, on stage in TorontoIn True Crime, the current offering from Crow’s Theatre, Torquil Campbell delves into the dark side of his own psyche via his fascination with convicted murderer, kidnapper and impostor Christian Gerhartsreiter, aka Clark Rockefeller, among other aliases. Shifting between an impersonation of Gerhartsreiter and his first person narrative detailing the creation of the play, Campbell explores what compels them both to do the things they do. Continue reading Review: True Crime (Crow’s Theatre)
Canadian Stage presents the return of Robert Lepage’s memory play 887 in Toronto887 is just an extraordinary piece of theatre. Written, directed, and performed by prolific Quebec theatre artist Robert Lepage, the autobiographical solo show is his most personal to date and is in turns thought-provoking, deeply affecting, and technically dazzling. Continue reading Review: 887 (Canadian Stage/Ex Machina)