Jericho Arts Centre and online until December 6, 2020
I like this play and this production a lot. Stylish and thought-provoking, it reminded me of Peggy Lee singing, Is That All There Is? as well as Paul Simon’s Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.
Tracy Jennissen in The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye). Costume design: Catherine E. Carr
Credit: Nancy Caldwell
Arts Club Granville Island Stage until December 6, 2020
McNee’s is a virtuosic performance, not to be missed. Every gesture, every word opens our hearts to born-in-a-bathtub Felix.
Andrew McNee as Felix in BUFFOON. Credit: Moonrider Productions
Live-streamed until November 21, 2020
Like Mary Shelley’s 1818 Frankenstein, H.G. Well’s 1898 The War of the World’s just keeps spawning revivals and adaptations.
Online from Studio 58 until October 17, 2020
Studio 58 boldly steps up to the plate with its first-ever live-streamed performance with The Doll’s House Project; this online presentation is available until October 17 and its free!
Matheus Severo and Sabrina Banks in The Doll’s House Project. Credit: Amir Tabatabei
Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre to November 8, 2020
One-person shows are great vehicles for performers and Celia Aloma does No Child . . . proud. Alternating performances with Ali Watson, Aloma completely embraces playwright Nilaja Sun’s sixteen characters over the course of a little more than an hour, sans intermission.
Celia Aloma in No Child. . . Credit: Moonrider Productions
At Jericho Arts Centre (and online) until October 4, 2020
A Hundred Words for Snow is a sweet coming of age story told directly to the audience by actor Hana Joi. Playwright Tatty Hennessy packs the script with lots of historical detail about various white male explorers who died trying to make the journey to the North Pole in the past, and bone-chilling descriptions of ice, snow and profound cold for which Rory, a young Londoner, is unprepared.
Hana Joi as Rory in A Hundred Words for Snow. Credit: Doug Williams
At a secret downtown location until March 1, 2020
There was a moment in Forget Me Not when, after having been invited with everyone else in the audience to participate, I seriously considered stepping into the action to stop something terrible from happening.
Ronnie Burkett in Forget Me Not. Credit: Dahlia Katz
At PAL Studio Theatre until February 29, 2020
‘In vino veritas’ the saying goes. But just how much ‘veritas’ can this group of six 30 or 40-year-olds handle?
Leah Jackskties and Cody Kearsley in Pot Kettle Black. Credit: Max Montesi
At The Stanley until February 23, 2020
Farce, in the wrong hands, can be as dreary as the rainiest January since 1930. But, under Scott Bellis’s fabulous direction and with a stellar cast of nine, playwright Michael Frayn’s 1982 farce will beat the blahs out of you faster than you can say “sardines”.
Emma Slipp, Tess Degenstein, Colleen Winton, Jovanni Sy and Charlie Gallant in Noises Off. Credit: David Cooper
At The Cultch until January 19, 2020
Obsession is a jealous mistress; she leaves little time for anything else.
Amy Rutherford, as Carmen, and Jonathon Young, as Eliot, in Infinity. Credit: Dahlia Katz