“Tight, well-acted, and deeply poignant” play now on stage in Toronto

If you’re in the mood for a coming-of-age classic, Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs is being put on by the Harold Green Theatre Company until June 10, 2018.

When I walked into the Greenwin Theatre with my friend Zack, we were immediately impressed by the beautiful set, a Depression Era home with two levels and every detail accounted for. It pulls you into the show, which is part of Neil Simon’s Eugene Trilogy: a semi-autobiographical series of plays covering the life of the famous playwrights’ surrogate, Eugene Jerome. Brighton Beach Memoirs is the first of the series, and it details events in Eugene’s teenage life.

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Soulpepper stages Laurence Olivier-winning Comedy at the Young Centre in Toronto

Can wisdom come from bad art, or is good art worth suffering for? This is, to some degree, the central question of Soulpepper‘s La Bête, the 1992 Laurence Olivier Award winner for Best Comedy now playing at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. The answer, apparently, is best served in the form of rhyming couplets.

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