Toronto Theatre Calendar: 2009

Monday, September 7, 2009

Toronto Theatre & Dance Listings January to June 2010

Jan 5 to 23: You Fancy Yourself by Maja Ardal (Contrary Company with Theatre Passe Muraille)
Jan 6 to 31: East of Berlin by Hannah Moscovitch (Tarragon Theatre) http://www.tarragontheatre.com/
Jan 11 to Feb 6: Such Creatures by Judith Thompson (Nightswimming & Theatre Passe Muraille "Toronto" season)
Jan 15 to 30: Hay Fever by Noël Coward (Alumnae Theatre Company – 90th season) http://www.alumnaetheatre.com/
Jan 19 to 24: Rent: The Broadway Tour (Mirvish at Canon Theatre)
Jan 22 to 24: Dance Ontario – DanceWeekend 2010 (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Jan 26 to Feb 28: Little House on the Prairie by Rachel Portman, Rachel Sheinkin and Donna di Novelli (Mirvish Productions)
Jan 27 to 30: Weesageechak Begins to Dance – festival of new works (Native Earth Performing Arts at Theatre Passe Muraille)
Jan 27 to Feb 27: Carmen (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary)
Jan 31 to Feb 25: El Numero uno by Pam Mordecai (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
Feb 3 to 6: roadkill (Splintergroup – Australia & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Feb 3 to 20: Les Médecins de Molière (Molière Doctors) by Molière (Théâtre La Catapulte, Ottawa & Théâtre français de Toronto)
Feb 3 to 28: Otello (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary)
Feb 5 to Mar 7: Yichud (Seclusion) by Julie Tepperman (Harold Green Jewish Theatre at Theatre Passe Muraille) http://www.hgjewishtheatre.com/
Feb 8 to Mar 6: Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage (Obsidian Theatre at The Canadian Stage Company)
Feb 9 to Mar 21: Hush by Rosa Laborde (Tarragon Theatre) http://www.tarragontheatre.com/
Feb 10 to 28: 31st Rhubarb Festival (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
Feb 11 to 14: OUM (Mother) by Arabesque Dance Company & Orchestra (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Feb 12 & 13: Shostakovich: A Portrait (Art of Time Ensemble)
Feb 15 to Mar 13: Future Folk by Sulong Theatre Collective (Theatre Passe Muraille "Toronto" season)
Feb 16 to 20: Once and for all we’re gonna tell you who we are so shut up and listen (Ontroerend Goed and Kopergietery – Belgium & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Feb 16 to 20: New work by Toronto Dance Theatre (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Feb 23 to Apr 4: Communion by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre) http://www.tarragontheatre.com/
Feb 23 to Mar 6: Rebecca Northan in Blind Date (Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Feb 24 to 28: confluence by Peggy Baker Dance Projects (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Enwave Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Feb 26 to 28: Diasporic Dimensions by COBA / Collective of Black Artists) (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Mar 3 to 6: Do Animals Cry (Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods - Germany/Belgium & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Mar 3 to 7: 24 Preludes by Chopin & A Suite of Dances & The Four Seasons (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
Mar 4 to 6: Lost & Found/Denise Fujiwara & Fidelity's Edge/Susie Burpee (Danceworks at Enwave Theatre) http://www.danceworks.ca/
Mar 8 to Apr 1: The Monster Under the Bed by Kevin Dyer (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
Mar 8 to Apr 3: The Overwhelming by J.T. Rogers (Studio 180 at The Canadian Stage Company)
Mar 10 to 27: New Ideas Festival (Alumnae Theatre Company – 90th season) http://www.alumnaetheatre.com/
Mar 11 to 13: Loin... / Far... (Rachid Ouramdane L’A – France & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Mar 11 to 21: Swan Lake (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
Mar 13 to Apr 4: who knew grannie: a dub aria by ahdri zhina mandiela (Obsidian Theatre at Factory Theatre)
Mar 15 to Apr 10: Art by Yasmina Reza trans. Christopher Hampton (The Canadian Stage Company)
Mar 15 to Apr 18: : Young Frankenstein (Mirvish Productions)
Mar 17 to Apr 4: Breakfast by Anna Chatterton & Evalyn Parry (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)Mar 18 to 20: inDANCE – BOX (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Mar 18 to 21: The Kreutzer Sonata (Art of Time Ensemble)
Mar 18 to 27: Birnam Wood by Allyson McMachon (Rusticle Theatre with Theatre Passe Muraille)
Mar 24 to 26: Opera to Go (Tapestry Theatre 30th anniversary) http://www.tapestrynewopera.com/
Mar 24 to 27: On the Side of the Road (Theatre Junction & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Spring 2010: The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera Atelier at the Elgin Theatre)
Apr 7 to 10: relay: (Ame Henderson Public Recordings & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Apr 7 to 11: SLAGUE L'histoire d'un mineur (SPITTING SLAGUE) by Mansel Robinson (Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury & Théâtre français de Toronto)
Apr 7 to 18: Grease starring American Idol’s Taylor Hicks (Mirvish at Canon Theatre)
Apr 8 to 24: Giiwedin by Spy Dénommé-Welch. Music by Catherine Magowan & Spy Dénommé-Welch (Native Earth Performing Arts at Theatre Passe Muraille)
Apr 9 & 10: Cock-Pit (Wen Wei Dance & Danceworks at Fleck Dance Theatre) http://www.danceworks.ca/
Apr 12 to May 8: This Is What Happens Next by Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks (Necessary Angel at The Canadian Stage Company)
Apr 13-24: Crocosmia (Little Bulb Theatre & Farnham Maltings at Theatre Passe Muraille)
Apr 14 & 15: RAGE by Michele Riml (Théâtre la Catapulte, Ottawa, NAV & Théâtre français de Toronto)
Apr 14 to May 23: If We Were Birds by Erin Shields (Groundwater Productions & Tarragon Theatre)
Apr 15 to 17: Sankofa by Ballet Creole (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Apr 16 to May 1: The Queens by Normand Chaurette, trans. Linda Gaboriau (Alumnae Theatre Company – 90th season) http://www.alumnaetheatre.com/
Apr 18 to 29: Thrice Upon a Time by Jacqueline Gosselin (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
Apr 18 to May 21: Hana’s Suitcase by Emil Sher (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
Apr 23 & 24: El12 (Compagnie La Otra Orilla & Danceworks at Enwave Theatre) http://www.danceworks.ca/
Apr 24 to May 20: The Flying Dutchman - revival (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary) Apr 27 to Jun 27: Mamma Mia! (Mirvish at Canon Theatre)
Apr 28 to May 15: Fragments de mensonges inutiles (Fragments of Unnecessary Lies) by Michel Tremblay (Théâtre français de Toronto)
May 1 to 9: The Soul of Gershwin (Harold Green Jewish Theatre at Winter Garden Theatre) http://www.hgjewishtheatre.com/
May 1 to 30: Maria Stuarda (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary)
May 3 to 29: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley adapt. Jonathan Christenson (Catalyst Theatre at The Canadian Stage Company)
May 4 to 8: Giselle (Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre – Ireland & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
May 8 to May 23: The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown (Angelwalk Theatre at the Studio Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts)
May 9 to 29: Idomeneo (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary closing)
May 10 to 20: In This World by Hannah Moscovitch (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
May 13 to 15: Isolated Incidents (Ipsita Nova Dance Projects & Danceworks at Enwave Theatre) http://www.danceworks.ca/
May 13 to 15: We're Funny That Way (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
May 25 & 26: Songbook 4 (Art of Time Ensemble)
May 27 to 29: dance Immersion – 2010 Showcase Presentation (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Jun: Dark Star Requiem (Tapestry Theatre 30th anniversary) http://www.tapestrynewopera.com/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): As You Like It by William Shakespeare (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter & Bella and Samuel Spewack (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Dangerous Liaisons by Christopher Hampton (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): The Tempest by William Shakespeare(Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Evita by Andrew Lloyd Weber & Tim Rice (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris by Jacques Brel & Eric Blau (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again by Michel Tremblay (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): King of Thieves by George F. Walker (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Do Not Go Gentle by Leon Pownall (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Jun 4 to 13: West Side Story Suite & World Premiere by Jorma Elo & Opus 19/The Dreamer (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
June 16 to 27: Sexy Pride (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
Jun 19 to 25: Onegin (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
Jul 6 to August 8: Legally Blonde the Musical by Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin & Heather Hach (Mirvish at Canon Theatre)

Monday, May 11, 2009

Toronto Theatre & Dance Listings Fall 2009

ONGOING:

Indefinite run: Jersey Boys (Dancap Productions at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts)—The musical story of '50s and '60s pop group Franki Valli and the Four Seasons
Inefinite run: The Sound of Music (Mirvish Productions at the Princess of Wales Theatre)—The beloved musical story of the Von Trapp Family Singers and their flight from Nazi-occupied Austria

LIMITED RUNS:

To Sep 6: The Tempest by William Shakespeare (The Canadian Stage Company TD Dream in High Park)
To Sep 19: Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Truscott by Miles Potter (Blyth Festival)
To Sep 20: The Entertainer by John Osborne (Shaw Festival)
To Oct 2: Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson (Stratford Festival)
To Oct 3: Phèdre by Jean Racine, Rice Boy by Sunil Kuruvilla, Zastrozzi by George F. Walker, Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (Stratford Festival)
To Oct 4: The Trespassers by Morris Panych (Stratford Festival)
To Oct 9: In Good King Charles’s Golden Days by George Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival)
To Oct 10: Albertine in Five Times by Michel Tremblay, trans. Linda Gaboriau (Shaw Festival)
To Oct 11: Star Chamber by Noël Coward, The Devil’s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw, Ways of the Heart by Noël Coward (Shaw Festival)
To Oct 24: Brief Encounters by Noël Coward (Shaw Festival)
To Oct 24: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, The Guardsman by Ferenc Molnar (Soulpepper)
To Oct 30: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Stratford Festival)
To Oct 31: Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival)
To Oct 31: Play, Orchestra, Play by Noël Coward (Shaw Festival)
To Nov 1: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, trans. Anthony Burgess (Stratford Festival)
To Nov 7: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart & Stephen Sondheim (Stratford Festival)
To Nov 8: West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim (Stratford Festival)
To Nov 1: Sunday in the Park with George by James Lepine & Stephen Sondheim, Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin (Shaw Festival)
To Nov 9: A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill (Shaw Festival)
Sep 10 to Oct 17: Antigone by Sophocles, trans. Evan Webber & Chris Abraham (Soulpepper)
Sep 15 to Oct 25: Mimi, or A Poisoner's Comedy by Allen Cole, Melody A. Johnson & Rick Roberts (Tarragon Theatre)
Sep 16 to 27: Goodness by Michael Redhill (Volcano Theatre at The Theatre Centre)
Sep 16 to Oct 3: Nursery School Musical by Brett & Racheal McCaig. Music by Anthony Bastianon. (Fence Post Productions at Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs)
Sep 16 to Oct 4: The Refugee Hotel by Carmen Aguirre (Alameda Theatre Company & Theatre Passe Muraille)
Sep 22 to Oct 3: The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca (New Teatro Theatre Company at the Papermill Theatre)
Sep 22 to Nov 1: The Boys in the Photograph by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Ben Elton (Mirvish Productions at Royal Alexandra Theatre)
Sep 23 to 25: three (firstthingsfirst productions & Danceworks at Enwave Theatre)
Sep 23 to Oct 10: Neon Nightz by Sasha Van Bon Bon & Kitty Neptune (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
Sep 23 to Oct 11: Altar Boyz by Kevin Del Aguila, Gary Adler & Michael Patrick Walker (Angelwalk Theatre at the Studio Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts)
Sep 25 & 26: Voyage of Awakening by Menaka Thakkar Dance Company (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
Sep 25 to 27: Opera Briefs ((Tapestry Theatre 30th anniversary)
Sep 25 to Oct 3: Secrets of a Black Boy by Darren Anthony (Trey Anthony Productions at The Music Hall) Secrets of a Black Boy
Sep 25 to Oct 10: A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee (Alumnae Theatre Company – 90th season) Alumnae Theatre
Sep 26 & 27: Abbey Road (Art of Time Ensemble)
Sep 26 to Nov 3: Madama Butterfly (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary opening)
Sep 28 to Oct 24: Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard (The Canadian Stage Company with Edmonton's Citadel Theatre)
Oct 6 to 10: The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh (Druid – Ireland & Harbourfront Centre World Stage) Harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage
Oct 7 to 11: Théâtre Extrème by Jean-Guy Legeault (Théâtre français de Toronto)
Oct 8 to 17: Salt Baby by Falen Johnson – workshop production (Native Earth Performing Arts at Theatre Passe Muraille)
Oct 8 to 25: Spent (Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Why Not Theatre & TheatreRUN at Factory Studio Theatre)
Oct 13 to 18: Sholem Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears Winter Garden Theatre) http://www.hgjewishtheatre.com/
Oct 14 to 17: ProArteDanza (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
Oct 15 to 31: Bash'd: A Gay Rap Opera by Chris Craddock & Nathan Cuckow (Theatre Passe Muraille)
Oct 17 to Nov 5: The Nightingale and Other Short Fables dir. Robert Lepage (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary)
Oct 20 to 25: Stomp (Mirvish Productions at Canon Theatre)
Oct 21 to 23: Canonize This! Play development series (Obsidian Theatre)
Oct 22 to 31: Hysteria, A Festival of Women (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
Oct 23 & 24: SAMVĀD by Lata Pada / Sampradaya Dance Creations (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Enwave Dance Theatre)
Oct 25 to Nov 15: The Drowning Girls by Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson & Daniela Vlaskilic (Bent Out Of Shape & Tarragon Theatre)
Oct 26 to Nov 21: That Face by Polly Stenham (Nightwood Theatre at The Canadian Stage Company)
Oct 27 to Nov 2: Blood by The Chimera Project (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Enwave Dance Theatre)
Oct 31 to Nov 7: Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck (Opera Atelier at the Elgin Theatre)
Oct 31 to at least Jan 3: The Toxic Avenger by Lloyd Kaufman, adapt. Joe DiPietro & David Bryan, starring Louise Pitre (Dancap Productions at The Music Hall)
Nov 2 to 12: Yellowman by Dael Orlandersmith (Nightwood Theatre & Obsidian Theatre at Berkeley Street Theatre)
Nov 4 to 7: Kudelka Evening by Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
Nov 4 to Dec 13: Rocking The Cradle by Federico Garcia Lorca adapt. Des Walsh (RCA Theatre Company & Tarragon Theatre)
Nov 5 to 15: August: Osage County (Mirvish Productions at Canon Theatre)
Nov 6 & 7: The Vision Impure (Noam Gagnon & Danceworks at Enwave Theatre)
Nov 7: Ben Heppner concert (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary)
Nov 7 to 29: My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (Mirvish Productions at Panasonic Theatre)
Nov 9 to Dec 5: 7 Stories by Morris Panych (Canadian Stage Company)
Nov 10 to 20: Blind Spot by Meghan Gardiner (Green Thumb Theatre & Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
Nov 12 to 15: ¡Lorca! In Search of Duende (Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company at Fleck Dance Theatre) http://www.flamencos.net/
Nov 12 to 29: Necessary Angel’s Hamlet (Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Nov 13 to 22: The Sleeping Beauty (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
Nov 13 to 28: Talking Masks by Adam Seelig (One Little Goat Theatre Company at Walmer Centre Theatre) http://www.onelittlegoat.org/
Nov 13 to 28: Palace Of The End by Judith Thompson (Alumnae Theatre Company – 90th season) http://www.alumnaetheatre.com/
Nov 14 to 21: The Silicone Diariesby Nina Arsenault (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
Nov 14 to Dec 23: Stuff Happens by David Hare (Mirvish Productions at Royal Alexandra Theatre)
Nov 15 to Dec 30: The Princess and the Handmaiden by Leslie Arden (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
Nov 17 & 18: Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Air Canada Centre
Nov 18 to 21: Displacement by HCA Dance Theatre (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
Nov 25 to 29: World Premiere by Aszure Barton & The Four Temperaments & Glass Pieces (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
Nov 25 to Dec 12: Letters to my Grandma by Anusree Roy (Theatre Passe Muraille)
Nov 26 to Jan 3: Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions at Elgin Theatre) http://www.rosspetty.com/
Nov 26 to Dec 24: Parfumerie, adapt. Adam Pettle & Brenda Robins (Soulpepper)
Dec 1 to 12: The Salon Automaton by Nathalie Claude (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
Dec 2: 30th Anniversary Celebration (Tapestry Theatre 30th anniversary)
Dec 2 to 12: Les noirs sont heureux byMartin David Peters / Rendez-vous Lakay by Djennie Laguerre (Théâtre français de Toronto)
Dec 2 to 5: To Be Straight with You (DV8 Physical Theatre – England & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Dec 3 to 24: Civil Elegies by Dennis Lee, created by Mike Ross & Lorenzo Savoini (Soulpepper)
Dec 4 & 5: Brasil (Art of Time Ensemble)
Dec 7 to 19: There’s a Mouse in My House by Carrie Costello (Carousel Players & Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
Dec 11 to 13: Soulful Messiah by Ballet Creole (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
Dec 12 to Jan 3: The Nutcracker (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
Dec 8 to Jan 10: Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein, Sholem Aleichem, Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick, starring Chaim Topol (Mirvish Productions at Canon Theatre)
Dec 18 & 19: Wintersong 2009 – Dances for a Sacred Season by Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
Dec 30 to Feb 4: Courageous by Michael Healey (Citadel Theatre & Tarragon Theatre)

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Toronto Theatre & Dance Listings March April May 2009

Long Runs

To March 29: Dirty Dancing (Mirvish Productions at the Royal Alexandra Theatre)—"Nobody puts Baby in a corner!" Everyone's favourite sexy dance movie comes to the stage.—Read about it!
Indefinite run: Jersey Boys (Dancap Productions at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts)—The musical story of '50s and '60s pop group Franki Valli and the Four Seasons—Read about it!
Indefinite run: The Sound of Music (Mirvish Productions at the Princess of Wales Theatre)—The beloved musical story of the Von Trapp Family Singers and their flight from Nazi-occupied Austria—Read about it!
Indefinite run: We Will Rock You (Mirvish Productions at the Panasonic Theatre)—The music of iconic rock group Queen reimagined as a musical about a repressive future world and the rebels who challenge it—Read about it!

Limited Runs

To March 1: Ubuntu/The Capetown Project (Tarragon Theatre)
To March 1: Toronto the Good by Andrew Moodie (Factory Theatre)—A tense tale of racial profiling and personal and professional ethics
To March 1: A New Brain (Acting Up Stage Theatre Company)—A James Lepine & William Finn musical about a songwriter whose physical illness unlocks previously unrealized musical creativity—Read about it!
To March 7: Miss Julie: Freedom Summer by Stephen Sachs (Playhouse Theatre at The Canadian Stage Company)—An adaptation of Strindberg's insightful and disturbing play about sex and power dynamics, translated into the Southern U.S. during the days of the Black Power struggle
To March 8: Wise.Woman by Rebecca Fisseha (b current at The Theatre Centre)—The legends of the Queen of Sheba entwine with the story of a contemporary woman who returns to Ethiopia from Canada to marry.
To March 8: Une maison face au nord (A North-Facing House) by Jean-Rock Gaudreault (Théâtre français de Toronto at Berkeley Street Theatre)—A French-language comic drama about the changing landscape of the French Canadian countryside (four performances surtitled in English)
To March 8: Clyomon and Clamydes (Poculi Ludique Societas and the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the Studio Theatre)—A lighthearted 16th-century script about wandering knights, a princess in disguise, a wicked king plus a little bit of magic... and a dragon!
To March 11: The Forbidden Phoenix by Marty Chan (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People)—The exciting fable of the Monkey King, told with music, martial arts and stage magic
To March 14: The Colour Purple (Mirvish Productions at the Canon Theatre)—Oprah Winfrey presents a musical based on Alice Walker's book and Steven Spielberg's film of the same name about Celie, a young African-American woman who struggles to find love and her own self-worth in early 20th-century America
To March 21: Travesties (Soulpepper)—Tom Stoppard's classic comedy about an imaginary meeting of James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin and Tristan Tzara
To March 28: The Patient Hour by Kristen Thomson (Tarragon Theatre)—A family coverges at the bedside of their mother, not knowing whether they are waiting for her recovery or her death
March 3 to 7: Blind Date (Rebecca Northan at (Harbourfront Centre World Stage)—A young Parisian woman waits for a blind date in a café somewhere along the banks of the Seine.
March 3 to 8: Letters to my Grandma by Anusree Roy (Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace)—A new one-woman show by the award-winning young writer/performer of Pyaasa about a granddaughter who learns on the day of her own wedding about her grandmother's life in India during the Second World War
March 4 to 8: Innovation: Three World Premieres (National Ballet of Canada)
March 4 to 14: Choreographic Works 2009 (Ryerson Theatre School)—Contemporary dance
March 4 to 22: Gay4Pay by Edward Roy (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
March 5 to 7: Older and Reckless (Claudia Moore at Dancemakers)—Contemporary dance
March 5 to 7: Egypt (Arabesque Dance Company at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps)—Middle Eastern dance performance
March 5 to 14: Comment on dit ça «t'es mort» en anglais? (How Do You Say "You're Dead" in English?) by Claude Guilmain, adapt. Louise Naubert (Théâtre La Tangente at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts)—A physics teacher mourning the death of two family members loses his sense of himself in the middle of a lecture.
March 6 & 7: Takes Two Men to Make a Brother (Suburban Beast at Harbourfront Centre HATCH emerging performers series)
March 6 & 7: Provincial Essays (Lola Dance at DanceWorks at the Enwave Theatre)—Contemporary dance
March 6 & 7: Afamafuna!, I Say and I’m the Girl (Theatre Revolve at Factory Studio Theatre)—A showcase of three works created by young women aged 14 to 24.
March 7 to 9: The Las Vegas Megillah: What Happens in Shushan Stays in Shushan by Aliza Spiro and Simon Spiro (Beth Tzedec Synagogue and Jewish Family & Child)—An original Purim musical with proceeds to support children at risk
March 8 to April 5: Missing by Florence Gibson (Factory Theatre)—When she begins the search for a woman who has disappeared, an inspector starts to lose herself
March 9 to April 4: Blackbird by David Harrower (Studio 180 at The Canadian Stage Company)—A man who's forgotten an old relationship and a woman who thinks of nothing else are reunited, with shattering results.
March 10 to 14: The Bundle by Edward Bond (Theatre at York)—Set in feudal China, the protagonists are faced with a series of ethical dilemmas that revolve around an abandoned baby.
March 10 to 28: Tijuana Cure by Layne Coleman (Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace)—A semi-autobiographical journey that recalls a trip to Mexico in search of treatment for the playwright's wife, writer Carol Corbeil Coleman, who was striken with cancer
March 11 to 22: Romeo and Juliet (National Ballet of Canada)
March 11 to 29: The New Ideas Festival (Alumnae Theatre Company)
March 12 to 14: The Kreutzer Sonata (Art of Time Ensemble)—Inspired by and featuring Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, this theatrical adaptation of a Tolstoy novella stars R.H. Thomson
March 12 to 14: Dances for the Meanwhile (Tom Brouillette at Dancemakers)—Contemporary dance
March 12 to 28: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (Stage Centre Productions at Fairview Public Library Theatre)—The destructive force of time robs the famous actress Madame Arkadina, of her beauty, and her son Konstantin of his hope in this classic of Russian theatre.
March 13 to 29: Someone is Going to Come by Jon Fosse (One Little Goat)—A man and a woman meet for a tryst in a remote location, but fear that they'll be observed.
March 14 to April 5: Katherine Mansfield (Theatre Smith-Gilmour at Factory Theatre Studio)—Based on four of Mansfield’s heartrending short stories.
March 15 to 27: The Emperor's New Threads by Melody Anderson and Peter Anderson (Axis Theatre Company at Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People)
March 16 to 21: Suddenly Shakespeare by Kim Selody (Shakespeare in Action at the Lillian H. Smith Library)—For March break, an exciting play in a Shakespearean environment inside the library that incorporates part of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Twelfth Night.
March 17 to April 19: Spring Awakening (Mirvish Productions at the Canon Theatre)—The Broadway hit musical that updates Franz Wedekind’s explosively forward-looking 19th-century play about sexual awakening.
March 18 to April 19: Another Home Invasion by Joan MacLeod (Tarragon Theatre) —Nicola Lipman stars as Jean, feisty caregiver for her husband Alec while they wait for the relief of hearing they’ve been admitted to the retirement home of their choice. The arrival of a stranger brings up questions of what home is and should be.
March 19 to 21: Frames (Zata Omm at DanceWorks)—Choreographer William Yong explores shifting frames of reference.
March 18 to 22: Disney on Ice Presents Worlds of Fantasy (Rogers Centre)
March 24 to 28: Breu & Seven or Eight Pieces for a Ballet (Grupo Corpo at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)—Contemporary dance
March 24 to 29: New Voices (Ryerson Theatre School)
March 26 to April 12: Fishbowl: A Concise, Expansive Theory of Everything by Mark Shyzer (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
March 26 to April 18: Shirley Valentine (Centaur Theatre at The Canadian Stage Company)—A middle-aged British woman finds a new lease on life during a Greek holiday
March 27 & 28: All I Ever Wanted (Gale Allen & the All Girl Squadron at Harbourfront Centre HATCH emerging performers series)
March 28 & 29: Kamouraska (Opera in Concert)
March 28 to April 12: Almighty Voice and His Wife by Daniel David Moses (Native Earth Performing Arts at Theatre Passe Muraille)—Revisits the history and legend of an iconic Native figure
March 28 to April 12: Dedicated to the Revolutions (Small Wooden Shoe at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
March 31 to April 9: EARTH=home (Judith Marcuse Projects at Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People)—Contemporary dance
April 2 to 4: Transformation (Ballet Creole at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps)
April 2 to 4: Blood (DanceWorks presente The Chimera Project at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps)— Acts of tenderness and violence collide in Malgorzata Nowacka’s new dance work
April 2 to May 9: Glengarry Glen Ross (Soulpepper)—David Mamet's heartwrenching drama about the cutthroat business of car sales
April 3 & 4: Make Me Stop Smoking (Rabih Mroué at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
April 7 to 19: Mourning Dove by Emil Sher (The Ark Collective at Tarragon Theatre Extra Space)—Parents confront a terrible dilemma when their severely disabled daughter faces surgery.
April 9 to 11: evanescence: made in canada/fait au canada by Holly Small and Freya Olafson (princess productions at the Betty Oliphant Theatre)—Contemporary dance
April 11 to May 7: Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi (Canadian Opera Company)—About "a man of the people whose rise to power results in the loss of all he holds dear"
April 16 to 26: AfterImage (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
April 16 to May 9: Hardsell by Daniel Brooks & Rick Miller (Necessary Angel & Wyrd at The Canadian Stage Company)
April 17 to 24: La Bohème (Canadian Opera Company)—The tragic story of Mimi, the little seamstress who leaves her lover rather than telling him she is dying in Bohemian 19th-century Paris
April 17 to 26: Appetite by the ensemble (Volcano, Theatre Passe Muraille and the Exchange Rate Collective) —An intoxicating physical theatre creation that examines our various carnal desires and needs; a hit of the 2007 Summerworks Festival
April 17 to 26: Iolanthe (Toronto Operetta Theatre)—The Gilbert and Sulivan operetta about the fairy in love with a mortal, against the wishes of the Fairy Queen
April 17 to May 2: Closer (Alumnae Theatre Company)
April 20 to 26: Jenn Goodwin (Dancemakers)—Contemporary dance
April 20 to May 14: Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice adapt. Paula Wing (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People)
April 21 to May 3: The Madness of the Square by Marjorie Chan (Cahoots Theatre and Factory Theatre)—An examination of the persistent impact of the events in Tiananmen Square based on interviews with witnesses
April 23 to May 3: I Have AIDS! by Sky Gilbert (The Cabaret Company at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)—An out, gay standup comic tells his interior designer partner he has AIDS; a look at AIDS now.
April 24 to May 10: Our Lady of Spills by Edwige Jean-Pierre (Theatre Archipelago at Papermill Theatre) —About the relationship between a domineering and prejudiced nursing home inmate and her nurse, a Haitian immigrant
April 25 & 26: Petrichor (Kitchen Band Productions at Harbourfront Centre HATCH emerging performers series)
April 25 to May 2: The Coronation of Poppea (Opera Atelier)—Claudio Montevedri's final masterpiece of intrigue and plots in the life of the Roman Emperor Nero's mistress Poppea
April 29 to May 24: A Beautiful View by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre)
April 30 to May 2: Accidents for Every Occasion/Mischance and Fair Fortune (Jenn Goodwin & Susee Burpee at DanceWorks)—Contemporary dance
May 1 to 10: The CrossCurrents Festival (Factory Theatre)—A festival of new plays by writers from diverse cultural backgrounds
May 5 & 7: Harmonia - City of Wine Festival (Nightswimming and Simon Fraser University at Theatre Passe Muraille)—Part of a seven-play festival about the ancient Greek city of Thebes. Each play was developed over three years with students at one of Canada’s most prestigious theatre training schools.
May 5 & 8: Pentheus - City of Wine Festival (Nightswimming and Humber College at Theatre Passe Muraille)—Part of a seven-play festival about the ancient Greek city of Thebes. Each play was developed over three years with students at one of Canada’s most prestigious theatre training schools.
May 5 to 9: The Cleansing of Constance Brown (Stan's Cafe at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
May 5 to 23: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Opera Company)
May 6 & 8: Laius - City of Wine Festival (sNightswimming and George Brown College at Theatre Passe Muraille)—Part of a seven-play festival about the ancient Greek city of Thebes. Each play was developed over three years with students at one of Canada’s most prestigious theatre training schools.
May 6 & 8: Jocasta - City of Wine Festival (Nightswimming and Studio 58 at Langara College at Theatre Passe Muraille)—Part of a seven-play festival about the ancient Greek city of Thebes. Each play was developed over three years with students at one of Canada’s most prestigious theatre training schools.
May 6 & 9: Oedipus - City of Wine Festival (Nightswimming and Concordia University at Theatre Passe Muraille)—Part of a seven-play festival about the ancient Greek city of Thebes. Each play was developed over three years with students at one of Canada’s most prestigious theatre training schools.
May 6 to June 7: House of Many Tongues by Jonathan Garfinkel (Tarragon Theatre)
May 6 to 8: CanAsian International Dance Festival (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps)—A potpourri of traditional and contemporary dance from Asian artists working in a variety of forms
May 7 & 9: Creon - City of Wine Festival (Nightswimming and Memorial University at Theatre Passe Muraille)—Part of a seven-play festival about the ancient Greek city of Thebes. Each play was developed over three years with students at one of Canada’s most prestigious theatre training schools.
May 7 & 9: Seven - City of Wine Festival (Nightswimming and York University at Theatre Passe Muraille)—Part of a seven-play festival about the ancient Greek city of Thebes. Each play was developed over three years with students at one of Canada’s most prestigious theatre training schools.
May 7 to 30: Doubt, a Parable (The Canadian Stage Company)
May 7 to 30: Tuesdays With Morrie (with Hal Linden) (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company)—The former star of Barney Miller in the inspiring and sometimes comic drama about a man who learns life lessons from his dying mentor
May 7 to 31: Anne of Green Gables, The Musical (Dancap Productions at the Elgin Theatre)—The perennial favourite from the Charlottetown Festival in PEI about the red-haired orphan whose cheerful courage changes the lives of her new family members
May 13 to 24: Of All The People In All The World (Stan's Cafe at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
May 13 to 24: Fear of Flight (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland at Factory Theatre)—One of Canada's top theatre directors, Jillian Keiley, soars into thin air on the wings of the best of this country's theatre writers, like Daniel MacIvor, Guillermo Verdecchia, Judith Thompson, Marie Clements and others
May 15 to 30: You Are Here by Ivan Coyote (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
May 19 to 31: Eternal Hydra by Anton Piatgorsky (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
May 20 to October 24: Brief Encounters (Shaw Festival)—Noel Coward's sophisticated love story
May 21 to October 9: In Good King Charles’s Golden Days (Shaw Festival)
May 22 to November 1: Sunday in the Park with George (Shaw Festival)—The Stephen Sondheim musical inspired by a Georges Seurat painting
May 23 to November 1: Born Yesterday (Shaw Festival)
May 23 to November 9: A Moon for the Misbegotten (Shaw Festival)
May 26 & 27: Songbook III (with Melanie Doane) (Art of Time Ensemble)
May 27 to 31: Giselle (National Ballet of Canada)
May 28 to 30: City of Tribes and Selected Repertoire (DanceWorks, Dance Immersion, Tavaziva Dance & COBA at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps)—Contemporary dance

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Toronto Theatre & Dance Listings Summer 2009

ONGOING:

Indefinite run: Jersey Boys (Dancap Productions at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts)—The musical story of '50s and '60s pop group Franki Valli and the Four Seasons—Read about it!
Indefinite run: The Sound of Music (Mirvish Productions at the Princess of Wales Theatre)—The beloved musical story of the Von Trapp Family Singers and their flight from Nazi-occupied Austria—Read about it!
Indefinite run: We Will Rock You (Mirvish Productions at the Panasonic Theatre)—The music of iconic rock group Queen reimagined as a musical about a repressive future world and the rebels who challenge it—Read about it!

LIMITED RUN

To May 23: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Opera Company)
To May 24: A Beautiful View by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre)
To May 24: Of All The People In All The World (Stan's Cafe at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
To May 24: Fear of Flight (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland at Factory Theatre)—One of Canada's top theatre directors, Jillian Keiley, soars into thin air on the wings of the best of this country's theatre writers, like Daniel MacIvor, Guillermo Verdecchia, Judith Thompson, Marie Clements and others
To May 30: Doubt, a Parable (The Canadian Stage Company)
To May 30: Tuesdays With Morrie with Hal Linden (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company)—The former star of Barney Miller in the inspiring and sometimes comic drama about a man who learns life lessons from his dying mentor
To May 31: Anne of Green Gables, The Musical (Dancap Productions at the Elgin Theatre)—The perennial favourite from the Charlottetown Festival in PEI about the red-haired orphan whose cheerful courage changes the lives of her new family members
May 15 to 30: You Are Here by Ivan Coyote (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
May 19 to 31: Eternal Hydra by Anton Piatgorsky (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
May 19 to June 21: Riverdance (Mirvish Productions at Canon Theatre)
May 20 to 31: 4-H Club, Killer’s Head, Cowboys#2: Three Plays by Sam Shepard (at the KA mansion, 160 St. George Street)
May 21 to 30: The Shadow by Alex Poch-Goldin & Omar Daniel (Tapestry New Opera)
May 24 to 31: DISHOOM! A South Asian Performance Festival (DiaspoRadicals & VideoCabaret)
May 26 & 27: Songbook III with Melanie Doane (Art of Time Ensemble)
May 26 to June 7: Cowboys and Indians by Anand Rajaram (Onofono & VideoCabaret at Factory Theatre), part of DISHOOM! South Asian Performance Festival
May 27 to 31: Giselle (National Ballet of Canada)
May 28 to 30: City of Tribes and Selected Repertoire (DanceWorks, Dance Immersion, Tavaziva Dance & COBA at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps)—Contemporary dance
June 5 to 11: The Children's Crusade by R. Murray Schafer (Canadian Children's Opera Company at Luminato)
June 5 to 13: Zisele (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company)
June 5 to 14: Lipsynch (Luminato)—Robert Lepage's nine-hour multimedia epic
June 5 to 14: Nevermore (Catalyst Theatre at Luminato)—A tribute to the tormented psyche of Edgar Allen Poe
June 5 to 14: 5 O'Clock Bells (Sleeping Dog Theatre at Luminato)—About the unsolved 1984 murder of jazz guitar legend Lenny Breau
June 5 to 14: Continuous City (The Builders Association, NY at Luminato)—A traveling businessman uses electronic media to keep in touch with his boss, daughter, and her nanny. Incorporates a participatory website at http://www.xubu.cc/
June 5 to 14: Zisele (Beit Lessin Theatre of Tel Aviv at Luminato)—Celebrates the quirky and complex relationship between mother and daughter in Yiddish culture.
June 5 to 14: Nederlands Dans Theater I (Luminato)—Contemporary dance
June 5 to 14: Tono (Luminato)—A dance and music creation exploring shamanism and the majesty of the horse in indigenous cultures of Canada, China, and Mongolia
June 6 to 14: Skin Divers/Carmen (National Ballet of Canada at Luminato)—Italian choreographer Davide Bombana's re-conceptualization of Bizet's Carmen
June 6 to 21: Body & Soul by Judith Thompson & the company (Thompson and Fine at Tarragon Theatre)
June 6 to July 31: Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets (Soulpepper)
June 9 to 28: Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad (Tarragon Theatre)
June 15 to 21: Così fan tutte by Mozart (Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio) June 17 to 27: The Burning Bush! (Burning Bush Productions at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts)
June 18: GANGA (Janak Khendry Dance Company at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps)
June 25 to July 30: Of the Fields, Lately by David French (Soulpepper)
June 29: 30th anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards
June 30 to September 6: The Tempest by William Shakespeare (CanStage TD Dream in High Park) with Karen Robinson as "Prospera"
July 1 to 12: The Fringe: Toronto’s Theatre Festival
July 8: The Kings of Swing (Gryphon Theatre, Barrie)
July 9 & 11: The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatre at Todmorden Mills)
July 10 & 12: The Bard's Bus Tour: The Comedy of Errors Driftwood Theatre at Todmorden Mills)
July 11: The Second City Ate My Homework (Gryphon Theatre, Barrie)
July 17: The Bard's Bus Tour: The Comedy of Errors (Driftwood Theatre at Bradley House Museum, Mississauga)
July 18: The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatre at Bradley House Museum, Mississauga)
July 20 to 25: He Sang, She Sang (Gryphon Theatre, Barrie)
July 28 to 30: The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatre Trinity Bellwoods Park)
July/August: The Harder They Come by Perry Henzell. Songs by Jimmy Cliff (Mirvish Productions)—Based on the vital and groundbreaking film that broke reggae on the North American scene
August 7 to 17: SummerWorks Theatre Festival
August 8 & 9: Bam! Percussion (Gryphon Theatre, Barrie)
August 8 to 28: Billy Bishop Goes to War by John Gray with Eric Peterson (Soulpepper
August 10 to 15: Blue Suede Shoes: Memories of the King with Elvis impersonator Roy LeBlanc (Gryphon Theatre, Barrie)
August 15: The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatreat City Centre, Mississauga)
August 16: The Bard's Bus Tour: The Comedy of Errors (Driftwood Theatre at City Centre, Mississauga)
August 20 & 21: The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatre at City Centre, Mississauga)
August 22: The Bard's Bus Tour: The Comedy of Errors (Driftwood Theatre at Withrow Park)
August 23 The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatre at Withrow Park)
August 29 to October 24: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (Soulpepper
August 31 to October 24: The Guardsman by Ferenc Molnar (Soulpepper)

Stratford Festival
June 1 to October 31: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
June 2 to October 30: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
June 3 to October 3: Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
June 4 to October 2: Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson
June 6 to October 31: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
June 19 to November 1: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, trans. Anthony Burgess
June 20 to August 9: Ever Yours, Oscar by Oscar Wilde, adapt. Peter Wylde
June 20 to November 1: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart & Stephen Sondheim
June 5 to October 31: West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
August 21 to October 4: The Trespassers by Morris Panych
August 21 to October 30: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare – pictured, with Yanna McIntosh as Titania & Geraint Wyn Davies as Bottom. Photo: David Hou, courtesy Stratford Festival.
August 22 to October 3: Phèdre by Jean Racine
August 22 to October 3: Rice Boy by Sunil Kuruvilla
August 23 to October 3: Zastrozzi by George F. Walker

Shaw Festival
May 20 to October 24: Brief Encounters by Noël Coward
May 21 to October 9: In Good King Charles’s Golden Days by George Bernard Shaw
May 22 to November 1: Sunday in the Park with George by James Lepine & Stephen Sondheim
May 23 to November 1: Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin
May 23 to November 9: A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill
June 9 to October 31: Play, Orchestra, Play by Noël Coward
July 10 to October 10: Albertine in Five Times by Michel Tremblay, trans. Linda Gaboriau
July 11 to October 11: Star Chamber by Noël Coward
July 9 to October 11: The Devil’s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw
August 1 to October 11: Ways of the Heart by Noël Coward
August 15 to September 20: The Entertainer by John Osborne

Blyth Festival
June 24 to August 15: The Bootblack Orator by Ted Johns
July 8 to August 14: The Mail Order Bride by Robert Clinton
July 22 to September 5: Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad by Michael Melski
August 5 to September 5: The Nuttalls by Michael Healey
September 9 to September 19: Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Truscott by Miles Potter

Friday, January 16, 2009

Toronto Theatre & Dance Listings Spring 2009

Long Runs

To February 1: Jersey Boys (Dancap Productions at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts) – The musical story of '50s and '60s pop group Franki Valli and the Four Seasons – Read about it!

To March 1: We Will Rock You (Mirvish Productions at the Panasonic Theatre) – The music of iconic rock group Queen reimagined as a musical about a repressive future world and the rebels who challenge it – Read about it!

To March 29: The Sound of Music (Mirvish Productions at the Princess of Wales Theatre) – The beloved musical story of the Von Trapp Family Singers and their flight from Nazi-occupied Austria – Read about it!

To March 29: Dirty Dancing (Mirvish Productions at the Royal Alexandra Theatre) – "Nobody puts Baby in a corner!" Everyone's favourite sexy dance movie comes to the stage. – Read about it!

Limited Runs

January 7 to February 1: East of Berlin by Hannah Moscovitch (Tarragon Theatre) – About the legacy of the Holocaust

January 9 to February 8: Medea (Mirvish Productions at the Canon Theatre) – The ancient Greek tragedy by Euripedes about the destructive anger of a woman scorned – pictured, with Seana McKenna & Michael Spencer-Davis. Photo by Bruce Monk, courtesy Mirvish Productions.

January 24 to February 24: Fidelio (Canadian Opera Company) – Beethoven's only opera

January 27 to February 14: You Fancy Yourself!! by Maja Ardal (Contrary Company at Theatre Passe Muraille) – A solo show about a young woman in the 1950s

January 28 to February 8: Stranger by Simon Rice & Shaun McComb (Praxis Theatre at 1087 Queen W) – An original work that takes an existential view of a murder tale

January 29 & 30: Erich Korngold: Source and Inspiration III (Art of Time Ensemble)

January 29 to February 1: Well, I’ll Tell Ya (Deb Filler at All Green Theatre) – A night of comedy

January 29 to March 1: Ubuntu/The Capetown Project (Tarragon Theatre)

January 29 to February 7: Up Until Now (Deborah Hay at Toronto Dance Theatre) – Contemporary dance

January 31 to February 23: Rusalka (Canadian Opera Company) The tragic tale of a water nymph who falls in love with a human – Read about it!

January 31 to March 1: Toronto the Good by Andrew Moodie (Factory Theatre) – A tense tale of racial profiling and personal and professional ethics

February 1 & 2: Nohayquiensepa/Nooneknows (Aluna Theatre at Harbourfront Centre HATCH emerging performers series)

February 2 to March 11: The Forbidden Phoenix by Marty Chan (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People) – The exciting fable of the Monkey King, told with music, martial arts and stage magic

February 3 to 7: Weesageechak Begins to Dance XXI (Native Earth Performing Arts at Theatre Passe Muraille) – The annual festival of new works by First Nations writers

February 3 to 15: Happy Days, A New Musical (Dancap Productions at the Elgin Theatre) Fonzy, Ritchie and the rest of the gang in a new stage musical – Read about it!

February 4 to 7: Dance Marathon (bluemouth inc at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)

February 4 to 12: Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertholt Brecht trans. David Hare (Ryerson Theatre) – The wry classic work about a woman who strives for the survival of her family in the face of war, death and danger

February 5 to 14: A Flea in Her Ear (Amicus Productions) – Feydeau's 1907 farce about mistaken identities and bungled trysts

February 5 to 15: Shakuntala (Pleiades Theatre at Harbourfront Centre World Stage) – The first-ever professional Canadian production of the immortal classic love story of Sanskrit theatre – Read about it!

February 10 to March 14: The Colour Purple (Mirvish Productions at the Canon Theatre) – Oprah Winfrey presents a musical based on Alice Walker's book and Steven Spielberg's film of the same name about Celie, a young African-American woman who struggles to find love and her own self-worth in early 20th-century America

February 11 to 14: 60 dances in 60 minutes (Dancemakers) – Contemporary dance

February 12 to March 7: Miss Julie: Freedom Summer by Stephen Sachs (Playhouse Theatre at The Canadian Stage Company) – An adaptation of Strindberg's insightful and disturbing play about sex and power dynamics, translated into the Southern U.S. during the days of the Black Power struggle

February 12 to March 21: Travesties (Soulpepper) – Tom Stoppard's classic comedy about an imaginary meeting of James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin and Tristan Tzara

February 12 to March 1: A New Brain (Acting Up Stage Theatre Company) – A James Lepine & William Finn musical about a songwriter whose physical illness unlocks previously unrealized musical creativity – Read about it!
February 18 to 21: Tshepang (Mopo Productions at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)

February 18 to 22: The Wizard of Oz (Fallen Rock Productions at the Isabel Bader Theatre) – The beloved adventures of Dorothy from Kansas, staged as a benefit for children with cancer

February 18 to 22: A Knickerbocker Holiday (Toronto Operetta Theatre) – Kurt Weill's seldom staged show, which introduced the now-standard "September Song"

February 20 & 21: Banta (Collective of Black Artists - COBA at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps)

February 20 to March 8: Wise.Woman by Rebecca Fisseha (b current at The Theatre Centre)—The legends of the Queen of Sheba entwine with the story of a contemporary woman who returns to Ethiopia from Canada to marry.

February 25 to 28: That Night Follows Day by Tim Etchells (Harbourfront Centre World Stage)—An adult play performed by children that explores the architecture of achild's world.

February 25 to 28: White Moon Dance Nights (AKA Dance) – Contemporary dance

February 25 to March 8: Une maison face au nord (A North-Facing House) by Jean-Rock Gaudreault (Théâtre français de Toronto at Berkeley Street Theatre) – A French-language comic drama about the changing landscape of the French Canadian countryside (four performances surtitled in English)

February 25 to March 8: Clyomon and Clamydes (Poculi Ludique Societas and the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the Studio Theatre)—A lighthearted 16th-century script about wandering knights, a princess in disguise, a wicked king plus a little bit of magic... and a dragon!

February 25 to March 28: The Patient Hour by Kristen Thomson (Tarragon Theatre) – A family coverges at the bedside of their mother, not knowing whether they are waiting for her recovery or her death

February 26 to 28: The Part (Antonija Livingstone at Dancemakers) – Contemporary dance

March 3 to 7: Blind Date (Rebecca Northan at (Harbourfront Centre World Stage) – Contemporary dance

March 3 to 8: Letters to my Grandma by Anusree Roy (Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace) – A new one-woman show by the award-winning young writer/performer of Pyaasa about a granddaughter who learns on the day of her own wedding about her grandmother's life in India during the Second World War

March 4 to 8: Innovation: Three World Premieres (National Ballet of Canada)

March 4 to 22: Gay4Pay by Edward Roy (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)

March 5 to 7: Older and Reckless (Claudia Moore at Dancemakers) – Contemporary dance

March 5 to 7: Egypt (Arabesque Dance Company at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps) – Middle Eastern dance performance

March 5 to 14: Comment on dit ça «t'es mort» en anglais? (How Do You Say "You're Dead" in English?) by Claude Guilmain, adapt. Louise Naubert (Théâtre La Tangente at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts)—A physics teacher mourning the death of two family members loses his sense of himself in the middle of a lecture.

March 6 & 7: Takes Two Men to Make a Brother (Suburban Beast at Harbourfront Centre HATCH emerging performers series)

March 6 & 7: Provincial Essays (Lola Dance at DanceWorks at the Enwave Theatre) – Contemporary dance

March 8 to April 5: Missing by Florence Gibson (Factory Theatre) – When she begins the search for a woman who has disappeared, an inspector starts to lose herself

March 9 to April 4: Blackbird by David Harrower (Studio 180 at The Canadian Stage Company)—A man who's forgotten an old relationship and a woman who thinks of nothing else are reunited, with shattering results.

March 10 to 28: Tijuana Cure by Layne Coleman (Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace)—A semi-autobiographical journey that recalls a trip to Mexico in search of treatment for the playwright's wife, writer Carol Corbeil Coleman, who was striken with cancer
March 11 to 22: Romeo and Juliet (National Ballet of Canada)

March 11 to 29: The New Ideas Festival (Alumnae Theatre Company)

March 12 to 14: The Kreutzer Sonata (Art of Time Ensemble)

March 12 to 14: Dances for the Meanwhile (Tom Brouillette at Dancemakers) – Contemporary dance

March 13 to 29: Someone is Going to Come by Jon Fosse (One Little Goat)—A man and a woman meet for a tryst in a remote location, but fear that they'll be observed.

March 15 to 27: The Emperor's New Threads by Melody Anderson and Peter Anderson (Axis Theatre Company at Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People)

March 18 to April 19: Another Home Invasion by Joan MacLeod (Tarragon Theatre)

March 19 to 21: Frames (Zata Omm at DanceWorks)

March 24 to 28: Breu & Seven or Eight Pieces for a Ballet (Grupo Corpo at Harbourfront Centre World Stage) – Contemporary dance

March 26 to April 12: Fishbowl: A Concise, Expansive Theory of Everything by Mark Shyzer (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)

March 26 to April 18: Shirley Valentine (Centaur Theatre at The Canadian Stage Company) – A middle-aged British woman finds a new lease on life during a Greek holiday

March 27 & 28: All I Ever Wanted (Gale Allen & the All Girl Squadron at Harbourfront Centre HATCH emerging performers series)

March 28 & 29: Kamouraska (Opera in Concert)

March 28 to April 5: Almighty Voice and His Wife by Daniel David Moses (Native Earth Performing Arts at Theatre Passe Muraille)

March 28 to April 12: Dedicated to the Revolutions (Small Wooden Shoe at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)

March 31 to April 9: EARTH=home (Judith Marcuse Projects at Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People) – Contemporary dance

April 2 to 4: Transformation (Ballet Creole at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps)

April 2 to 4: The Chimera Project (DanceWorks at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps) – Contemporary dance

April 2 to May 9: Glengarry Glen Ross (Soulpepper) – David Mamet's heartwrenching drama about the cutthroat business of car sales

April 3 & 4: Make Me Stop Smoking (Rabih Mroué at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)

April 9 to 11: evanescence: made in canada/fait au canada by Holly Small and Freya Olafson (princess productions at the Betty Oliphant Theatre)—Contemporary dance

April 11 to May 7: Simon Boccanegra (Canadian Opera Company)

April 16 to 26: AfterImage (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)

April 16 to May 3: The Madness of the Square by Marjorie Chan (Factory Theatre) – An examination of the persistent impact of the events in Tiananmen Square

April 16 to May 9, 2009: Hardsell by Daniel Brooks & Rick Miller (Necessary Angel & Wyrd at The Canadian Stage Company)

April 17 to 24: La Bohème (Canadian Opera Company) – The tragic story of Mimi, the little seamstress who leaves her lover rather than telling him she is dying in Bohemian 19th-century Paris

April 17 to 26: Iolanthe (Toronto Operetta Theatre) – The Gilbert and Sulivan operetta about the fairy in love with a mortal, against the wishes of the Fairy Queen

April 17 to May 2: Closer (Alumnae Theatre Company)

April 20 to 26: Jenn Goodwin (Dancemakers) – Contemporary dance

April 20 to May 14: Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice adapt. Paula Wing (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People)

April 22 to May 3: I Have AIDS! by Sky Gilbert (Cabaret Co. at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)

April 25 & 26: Petrichor (Kitchen Band Productions at Harbourfront Centre HATCH emerging performers series)

April 25 to May 2: The Coronation of Poppea (Opera Atelier) – Claudio Montevedri's final masterpiece of intrigue and plots in the life of the Roman Emperor Nero's mistress Poppea

April 29 to May 24: A Beautiful View by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre)

April 30 to May 2: Accidents for Every Occasion/Mischance and Fair Fortune (Jenn Goodwin & Susee Burpee at DanceWorks) – Contemporary dance

May 1 to 10: The CrossCurrents Festival (Factory Theatre) – A festival of new plays by writers from diverse cultural backgrounds

May 5 to 9: The Cleansing of Constance Brown (Stan's Cafe at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)

May 5 to 23: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Opera Company)

May 6 to June 7: House of Many Tongues by Jonathan Garfinkel (Tarragon Theatre)

May 6 to 8: CanAsian International Dance Festival (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps) – A potpourri of traditional and contemporary dance from Asian artists working in a variety of forms

May 7 to 30: Doubt, a Parable (The Canadian Stage Company)

May 7 to 30: Tuesdays With Morrie (with Hal Linden) (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company) – The former star of Barney Miller in the inspiring and sometimes comic drama about a man who learns life lessons from his dying mentor

May 7 to 31: Anne of Green Gables, The Musical (Dancap Productions at the Elgin Theatre) – The perennial favourite from the Charlottetown Festival in PEI about the red-haired orphan whose cheerful courage changes the lives of her new family members

May 13 to 24: Of All The People In All The World (Stan's Cafe at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)

May 13 to 24: Fear of Flight (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland at Factory Theatre) – One of Canada's top theatre directors, Jillian Keiley, soars into thin air on the wings of the best of this country's theatre writers, like Daniel MacIvor, Guillermo Verdecchia, Judith Thompson, Marie Clements and others

May 15 to 30: You Are Here by Ivan Coyote (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)

May 19 to 31: Eternal Hydra by Anton Piatgorsky (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)

May 20 to October 24: Brief Encounters (Shaw Festival) – Noel Coward's sophisticated love story

May 21 to October 9: In Good King Charles’s Golden Days (Shaw Festival)

May 22 to November 1: Sunday in the Park with George (Shaw Festival) – The Stephen Sondheim musical inspired by a Georges Seurat painting

May 23 to November 1: Born Yesterday (Shaw Festival)

May 23 to November 9: A Moon for the Misbegotten (Shaw Festival)

May 26 & 27: Songbook III (with Melanie Doane) (Art of Time Ensemble)

May 27 to 31: Giselle (National Ballet of Canada)

May 28 to 30: City of Tribes and Selected Repertoire (DanceWorks, Dance Immersion, Tavaziva Dance & COBA at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps) – Contemporary dance