At Bard on the Beach until September 18, 2019
What do you get when you put playwrights Tom Stoppard and William Shakespeare together? A hit, a veritable hit.
Charlie Gallant as Shakespeare and Ghazal Azarbad as Viola de Lesseps. Credit: Emily Cooper
At Bard on the Beach until September 2019
Director Lois Anderson tweaks Taming of the Shrew in a way that makes everyone happy. We are in the Wild West, in Padua City in 1870; the men are toting six-shooters and the women have baked pies for “Summer Fest”.
Andrew McNee as Petruchio and Jennifer Lines as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. Credit: Emily Cooper
At Progress Lab 1422. Closes June 14, 2019
Strays do not often fare well but writer, performer, memoirist Tanya Marquardt, a self-described stray, is one that does.
Tanya Marquardt in STRAY. Credit: Christian Robertson
Undaunted by some terrible reviews of Zastrozzi: A Romance, a novella written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1809, Canadian playwright George F. Walker adapted it for stage in 1977 – not from the novella but from a plot summary of the novella – and it has been cropping up on stages ever since.
Birkett Turton as Zastrozzi in Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline. Credit: Amanda Waschuk.
At Jericho Arts Centre until June 30, 2019
Act 1 is mostly texture, not much plot. And it’s long at three hours. But see it because the payoff in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, directed by Kathleen Duborg for United Players, is colossal and mythic in scale.
Adam Henderson as Johnny Rooster Byron and Jack Rigg as the Professor in Jerusalem. Credit: Nancy Caldwell