At The Cultch until November 28, 2015
What if your loved ones don’t love you enough? What if they bail out on you if you’re diagnosed with Alzheimer’s? Now there’s a nightmare to plague your waking and sleeping hours.
Patti Allan and Kevin McNulty in You Will Remember Me. Credit: Tim Matheson
At the Norman Rothstein Theatre until November 21, 2015
Make your Will. Do it now. Otherwise, your loved ones will snarl and bicker and fight like a pack of hyenas over your ‘things’.
Goldie Hoffman as Daphna in Bad Jews. Credit: Len Grinke
At Performance Works until November 29, 2015
If some of us had spent half as much time on our marriages as we spent obsessing over our wedding dress, there might be more happy 60th wedding anniversaries.
Josh Drebit, Deborah Williams and Gili Roskies in Dressing for a Wedding. Credit: Emily Cooper
At Studio 16 until November 28, 2015
Mitch and Murray Productions knocks it out of the park – again – with Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn, a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Moya O’Connell as Catherine in Rapture, Blister, Burn. Credit: Shimon Karmel
At The Stanley until December 27, 2015
Santa, a Remembrance Day poppy stuck in his bright red suit, seems to arrive on the scene earlier each year. The Arts Club kicks the holiday season off with A Christmas Story: The Musical.
Valin Shinyei, Meghan Gardiner, Glen Gordon and Matt Palmer in A Christmas Story. Credit: David Cooper
At the Jericho Arts Centre until November 29, 2015
Every year, United Players’ artistic director Andree Karas scours the London and New York theatre scenes for exciting new plays. Plays that warrant full professional productions – but with large casts or multiple sets that make it very expensive for, say, the Arts Club, often turn up at the Jericho Arts Centre.
William Samples and Christine McBeath in People. Credit: Adam Henderson
At Studio 16. No more performances.
Has opera gone to the dogs? Billed as “a darkly funny fusion-operetta”, the music is less Gilbert and Sullivan and more, I don’t know, Philip Glass? Less music hall, more opera house.
Karen Ydenberg, Kerry van der Griend and Simon Webb in Off Leash. Credit: Mark Halliday
At Pacific Theatre until November 21, 2015
Susie Coodin glows with a pure, clear light as a little Amish girl from Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
Susie Coodin in The Amish Project. Credit: Ron Reed
At the York Theatre until November 14, 2015
Nirbhaya is not a play you like; it’s a play you respect.
Priyanka Bose in Nirbhaya. Credit: William Burdett-Coutts
At Studio 1398 until November 8, 2015
There’s beer, marijuana, cocaine, speed, Jack Daniels, vodka and heroin – enough to kill a guy or a couple of guys. And that seems to be Clint’s plan.
Markian Tarasiuk and Tom Krushkowski in 3…2…1